Well, it was out of the way in a social sense. The humans mostly avoided it, and avoided building near it... I think they considered the mountain cursed.
[He'd heard snippets of legends and rumors, but underground the fact that it was a mountain was basically intellectual curiosity, and on the surface there was a rest of the world to explore.
...It was still pretty notable the way, for all there were such dense and wide-spanning cities on the surface, from that cliffside view there'd only been a single city, and that a fairly contained one. They really hadn't been building close, and surely on purpose.]
But, it got crowded anyway. Lots of centuries of people having kids... and the really old monsters, could remember the war. [Centuries-old monsters, if not millennia-old.]
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[He'd heard snippets of legends and rumors, but underground the fact that it was a mountain was basically intellectual curiosity, and on the surface there was a rest of the world to explore.
...It was still pretty notable the way, for all there were such dense and wide-spanning cities on the surface, from that cliffside view there'd only been a single city, and that a fairly contained one. They really hadn't been building close, and surely on purpose.]
But, it got crowded anyway. Lots of centuries of people having kids... and the really old monsters, could remember the war. [Centuries-old monsters, if not millennia-old.]