At least - that's what people will tell you. 

 

Generally right before they try to sell you something..

 

The Howling Spire has existed for the entirety of remembered history and will remain for many generations to come. If you can bear the scorching heat of the lava flows, and if you can squint your eyes through the toxic gases igniting and belching from the ground beneath your feet - you have the opportunity to see something marvelous. A volcanic rock spire reaching hundreds of feet into the air, sitting on pillars of unstable rock oozing out lava as if it were covered in open wounds. Denizens of the Path of the Temperate tell tales of beasts rising and falling into the lava, strange sigils covering seemingly un-scorched rocks and further, those who have ventured to the Howling Spire itself have rarely lived to tell the tale, and none have returned of sound mind. 

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Through all hours of day and night, the Spire howls with a bone-chilling scream as if hundreds were being burned alive within its walls - just out of sight. Even the most dedicated of adventurers have not come close enough to the Spire to determine its true purpose or nature. Is it an abandoned engine of creation, laid in perpetual unrest? Or possibly the remains of an ancient being, bleeding molten blood endlessly upon the plains? Depending on which tribe you ask, they will all give you different answers, but these shards of a story must all lead to something, right?