Chimney Tops

Chimney Tops is a Nunnehi Freehold in the Appalachian Mountains.

Overview

The sharp, craggy knobs known as the Chimney Tops, twin peaks that thrust upward within the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, once served as a meeting place between Cherokee shamans and their Nunnehi spirit-cousins. Both sides would come together to share stories and medicine lore among the weathered rocks that have existed for 500 million years or more.

Still used by the Nunnehi, the site is now a popular hiking destination, forcing the Native American fae to restrict their appearances on the site. Access to their homes is through a crevice that at first appears impossible to traverse, even for expert climbers. Within the crevice, which is hidden by Medicine from prying eyes, Chief Crying Tears and his tribe of nanehi and yunwi tsundsi have constructed homes. Appearing to casual inspection as mere holes (like shallow caves), each home within the Chimney Tops is actually a comfortable burrow carved from rust-colored Thunderhead Sandstone and veined with golden pyrite (fool's gold). The walls are usually polished, giving them a marble-like appearance. The nunnehi make bedding and cushions from savory smelling plants and mosses that are stuffed inside woven cloth. Tunnels just high enough to accommodate the fae have been carved within the peaks, leading from one home to the next and all leading to a central cavern where the fae meet, sing, dance, tell stories, and hold council.

The Nunnehi of Chimney Tops, know to many as the Walkers on the Mountain, have alliances with certain local Garou. Crying Tears advocates peaceful co-existence with non-native fae as well, hoping this will preserve his people and their ancient home.

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