Mt. Daneasus

Points of Interest

1. Daneasus is actually the most populated city in the world.
2. Mt. Danaesus was once the location of one of the most beautiful and impressive temples to ORB in the land. However, during the Scarlet War, it was destroyed by the College of Mages. The missing temple is now a shrine, a perfectly spherical hole in the rock, several hundred yards across. There are numerous flower stands that have been set up around the perimeter, and people make pilgramages to throw flowers into the crater. Traditionally, it's a small white flower called sìorraidh (eternal, in dwarven).
3. The city is also a key location on the world's ley lines - lines of magical power spanning a few yards or the whole continent. The temple site was actually on a nexus point of two major ley lines (much like the Spire, the Jade Tower, the Valley of the Magi, and the Grand Performance Hall in Luminaux). Oddly, since the disappearance of the temple, the ley lines simple stop at the border of the missing temple, and then pick up again at the other side, as though nothing had happened.
4. The Order of the Light of ORB officially cites its founding as an agreement on the battlefield at Windy Point between two dwarves to create an Order dedicated to making sure that the kind of army Shinn the Sorcerer raised would never happen again. Political turmoil prevented them from actually establishing a headquarters until around the Year of the Sun 874 - which at that point was really just makeshift office in one of the smaller, suddenly very busy churches in the city. In the last 40 years, the Hunters of the Dead have created a new training facility: The Zoo. Located in a somewhat remote location down a single well-defended tunnel in the lowermost reaches of the mountain, it is a giant oblong facility surrounded on all sides with a positive energy field, preventing the undead from escaping.
5. The rock: It is said - though it may be just urban legend - that more rock has now been removed from the mountain-city than actually remains, and that the continued structural stability is a product of the superior dwarven engineering combined with incredible geological stability. Some also say that the presence of the ley lines bends the normal laws of physics a bit (a position reinforced by recent studies of the Grand Hall, which is a physically impossible building.)
6. Much like an inverted cruise ship, there is a subtle caste system at work in the level of one's family's holding - the deeper, the better.