Moruge Mountains

The Moruge Mountains are a mountain range in northwestern Hyrule.

Geography
The Moruge Mountains are approximately 2000 square miles in area, running west -east and serving as the natural boundary between Misery Mire and the Gerudo Desert. A large pass runs north to south through the range near Mount Birida, connected the Mire and Desert. Further to the east, the Tanager Valley divides the Moruge Mountains from the Tabantha Mountains to the northeast.

The Moruge Mountains derive their name from Moruge, a ruined Akkalan hold of one of the vassal Houses of House Gustaf, which later became a Gohma hive. The mountains are scarcely inhabited by Daira, while its western expanse hides the Kingdom of Calatia, in the shadow of Mount Agaat. A small spur of the mountains juts south into the Gerudo Desert, sheltering the Karusa Valley. The Spirit Temple and surrounding settlement of Aidaidorf are build into the eastern slopes of this spur.

Ancient Age
C. 3121 - 3050 BG, the Moruge Mountains, along with Misery Mire, were colonized by Akkalan settlers from House Gustaf and its vassals. In 3050 BG, the remote settlement of Calatia was founded in a fertile valley hidden in the western mountains by religion pilgrims and hermits, whom cut off contact with their kin and lived in isolation. Sicty years later in 2290 BG, after the assassination of King Rhoaban Gustaf I by Baolin Nohansen I and Yom Daltus I, the Akkalan Civil War began, and Sir Bado Harkinian fled west with Rhoaban's three children. After three years of war, in 2987 BG, House Gustaf and its vassals were nearly wiped out, with the survivors following Bado to safety in Calatia, and Peak Province was abandoned. Calatia remained in isolation, forgotten by their Akkalan cousins to the east, and over the centuries, the lines of Gustaf and their vassals recovered, becoming the nobility of the small kingdom.