The Wandering Monolith is an isolated mountain in the middle of the Taizzan Expanse. Rising almost two miles above the surrounding desert, the Monolith is visibly out of place.
The town of Deadheart, populated almost entirely by trox, is built into the mountain. According to the trox, thousands of years ago the Monolith was once one of the northernmost mountains of the Shields before it was suddenly and explosively propelled dozens of miles north to its current position. The scars on the land leading between the Monolith and the mountains the south would seem to support these claims. Though they do not know the details of how their sudden migration took place, most Deadlanders believe volcanic activity to be the primary culprit, perhaps assisted by their own ancestors' attempts at tapping magma plumes for energy and heat.