The Teeth

The Teeth
Also known as the Rocky Mountains, the Rockies, the Continental Divide, and the Teeth of the Creator. The Teeth are a mountain range stretching nearly the entire length of the North West Continent of Urf.

Mythology
According to the oral traditions of many nomadic mutant bands throughout the region (source The Mutie Rough Boys), these mountains are actually the Teeth of the Creator. In the Beginning, the great Void Shark, tired of swimming from star to star, alone in the universe, took it upon himself to create a world of his own and beings to populate it. In order to accomplish this he accreted space dust, comets, and even bits of stars in his belly. Over the course of many years, the Void Shark pressed and compressed the stuff of the heavens, shutting off his own digestion in order so that the world in his belly would not be destroyed. When at long last the world was formed the Void Shark vomited it forth, complete with the stuff of life. Alas though, in his haste and determination to create this new world, the Void Shark had forgotten the ravenous hunger that was close to the very fabric of his being. The hunger that had driven him to swim from star to star. Unable to control himself any longer the Void shark bit into his new world. Midway through his colossal bite he realized what he did and hardened the world with the hot breath of stars that lived inside of him. Thusly punishing himself the Void Shark wept, both for himself and for the new world he had nearly destroyed, and his tears filled the low places of the land and became the great seas. Unable to swim, and unable to eat, the Void Shark soon died, and as he decayed his body fed and nurtured the life that had taken root on this new world.

Habitation
It is unlikely that population centers (of humans) of any great size have ever existed in this region. Cenozopolois, childhood home of Frankie Quasar, Thomas Jettison , and Dr. Cold Fusion, and other such small vault and New Eden type communities have long been scattered throughout the region from at least the time of the Cataclysm of the Rock. Prior to that, there is some evidence of landscape leveling and mining that might suggest larger cities or a least transportation networks, but funding for exo-archaeological research into this has not been forthcoming.