Royal Mountains



 The Royal Mountains are a mountain range that span across the Northern East Coast of the alternate America in which Supermen: The Musical is set. They are so named after their snowcapped “crowns”, essentially marking them as royalty. The tallest of these mountains is Mount Crest, which was once an active volcano. They are a key geological feature of Capital City.

== History == The Royal Mountains have been around for millions of years, since before dinosaurs walked the Earth. At one time the tallest of these mountains, Mount Crest, was an active volcano that periodically sparked forest fires in the Emerald City, burning it down to the ground, only for it to grow back over time thicker than before. This continuous cycle of death and rebirth is what made the soil so fertile and the land rich with precious minerals, such as silver and coal.

 During the second Ice Age, a glacier formed in the crater of Mount Crest. However, by the end of the Ice Age, the planet heated up, and the glacier melted down. A slope in the basin provided an opening for the newly formed Lake Providence, allowing water to cascade down the mountainside through the Gates of Heaven. The Silver Gate River carved its way through the Emerald City, cleaving it in two, out into Crescent Cove.

 When English colonists settled on Crescent Cove, they found coal underneath the mountains, and the colony became a mining town, owing to the wealth of what would someday be known as Capital City.

 Today, Mount Crest hosts a popular ski resort during the wintertime, and a lakeside retreat over the summer. The basin forms a natural rain hoard, making Lake Providence a natural reservoir for the city’s fresh water supply.