Mount Pelion

Mount Pelion is located near King Peleus's palace in Phthia, close enough that 13 year old Patroclus manages to reach its base in a matter of hours by foot. It is near Mount Othrys.

The cypress trees are thicker on the north side.

There is a stream that feeds the Apidanos River that runs through Phthia's lands.

The river holds loaches, perch, and vimba.

It snows in the winter.

The Cave
Chiron the centaur lives at its summit, and for a time, so do Achilles and Patroclus. There is a cave made of pale rose quartz. Its entrance is high enough that Chiron doesn't have to stoop. It is shadowy inside, but lighter than it should have been, because of the crystal walls. At one end of the cave is a small, sweet spring that seems to drain away into the rock.

The walls are hung with strange bronze implements, meant for surgery. On carved shelves are dozens of small ceramic jars covered with slanted markings.

Instruments hung in one corner, lyres and flutes, and next to them tools and cooking pots.

The cave's ceiling has lines and specks of dye shaping the constellations and the movements of the heavens.

There is a single human-sized bed, thick and padded with animal skins.

It is pleasantly cool inside, and there are cushions on the floor.

Fruits and berries are kept in a hollowed outcropping of rock. The fire is located in the clearing at the cave's mouth.

In the winter, Chiron hangs animal skins from the cave's entrance to keep the warmth in.