The mountain range that runs along the spine of the Korean Peninsula.

Among them, Taebaek Mountain, located in Gangwon-do, has long been revered as a sacred mountain by the Korean people.

At the same time, this mountain was the site of a long-ago gate explosion, where a ‘Drake’ took up residence.

Although a subspecies of the dragon race, Drakes are wingless monsters resembling dinosaurs. They possess immense strength, but their numbers are few, and as long as their territory isn’t invaded, they generally don’t descend from Taebaek Mountain.

And crucially, unlike the valuable Fire Dragon (Hwa-ryong) mentioned by Utopia on broadcasts, Drakes didn’t provide useful materials. As a result, hunting Drakes by scouring Taebaek Mountain was considered a losing proposition.

There was an unspoken agreement that provoking them was not worth the trouble, and so Taebaek Mountain was tacitly recognized as the Drakes' territory, leading to a decade of coexistence between humans and Drakes.