Mount Zoufei

Mount Zoufei is the a mountain in the Ializa region standing 6694 paces above sea level. It is the second highest peak in the world and the highest in the southern hemisphere. The mountain summit is sharply peaked and made of granite. The summit and south face are snow covered year round, although this was not always the case historically. The name is the Ialinicized version of the Shreeto name, Sophai, which means heaven in Shreeto. The Shreeto-speaking Chai people believed the mountain was a holy place and that it's summit was a path to the heavens. They built their religious and administrative center, Tha Githae, in a cave complex near the summit. According to legend the cave complex once reached a point 999 Prhoo (898 paces) directly below the exact summit of the peak, though such a claim is impossible to verify.

Mount Zoufei factors prominently in many indigenous Ializa myths, especially among the Chai people but also among other groups. Many of these myths were incorporated into syncretic Ialini myths that mix Carasalic traditions with indigenous Ializa traditions. The mountain's traditional mythic role as the route to and from the heavens factors into most, though not all, of these myths, as gods and heroes in the myths frequently travel to or from heaven by this route. No one is reliably known to have reached the summit in reality.