Verdensrygsøjle

Pronunciation: [ver-DENS-reeg-soehyle]

Climate Overview
The ‘World Spine’ is a series of small hamlets throughout the Northern mountains (The Kronetopper range). It stretches over roughly half of the mountain range. Being primarily mountain settlements, the weather is usually quite harsh and more often cold than not.

Social Overview
Verdensrygsøjle was formerly the capital of Spectra worship before the Unification, where Spectra worship moved to the Orange Oratory in the Clementine region.

Verdensrygsøjle is still populated primarily by priests, but many sherpas and traders live here to help travelers going through the mountains. Across all the settlements, there are roughly 3,000 people.

Cultural Overview
The buildings in Verdensrygsøjle are primarily stone temples or small dwellings carved into the mountain sides. The people are overtly very friendly. Most are faithful to Spectra worship, and as such, are very hospitable. Travel through the mountains is almost wholly routed through Verdensrygsøjle, due to their hospitality. This is also primarily how the residents receive food, otherwise relying on goat milk, tea made with mountain flowers, and Bjergsalat, a leafy green that grows there.

Economic Overview
Most shops and businesses in Verdensrygsøjle trade with outsiders primarily in food and spices in lieu of currency. Most of the services that are provided are lodging and guidance. The temples and churches in Verdensrygsøjle do not take donations and instead simply act as wonderous beacons of Spectra’s holy light.