The Perianth

Also known as The Girdle Mountains

Location
The Perianth is a tall, roughly circular mountain range that, depending on your point of view, either shields the surrounding areas from monsters that live within (see The Spawn Gorge) or allow Weirdlings to gather their forces in peace before a final, devastating assault upon civilization. In either case, the Perianth makes traversing the realm more difficult, narrowing the remaining land masses to the east, west and north down into thin spits of passable land.

Terrain & Climate
The air up in the slopes of the mountains is thin and cold, prone to sudden and violent showers of rain and sleet. On top, the air is thicker and green with noxious fumes emanating from the chasm cradled by the mountains.

Flora & Fauna
All sorts of weird flora, many of them with alchemical properties, can be collected here if one is resourceful (or foolhardy) enough to do so. Weirdlings occasionally venture outside of the Spawn Gorge - in increasing numbers, it seems - and so, these grotesque hybrid creatures are the most common predator encountered in and around the mountains.

Settlements
There are no settlements belonging to any of the civilized folk of Venturia in the Perianth, but rumors speak of a large Weirdling hive within the Gorge.