Mt. Roneal

Mt. Roneal is a snowy mountain range dungeon in Tales of the Abyss.

Geography
Mt. Roneal is located at the Sylvana Continent and Northwest from Keterburg. It’s a dangerous place since is crawled with nasty monster, the mountains are rough to climb, some areas are slippery and powerful noises could make easily an avalanche. Those are the reasons that people who live nearby rarely approach that mountain. Also Mt. Roneal has a Sephiroth.

History
Before the game begins, in ND 1991 Gelda Nebilim fails a planetary arte experiment at the deepest parts from Mt. Roneal, resulting in the death of many Oracle Knights. Nine years later Field Marshal McGovern Snr battles the culprit of the Serial Fonist Killings and seals it in Mt. Roneal in a classified are called Nebilim's Crag. At some point the Six God Generals were gravely injured by monsters when they were on duty.

The party first goes to Mt. Roneal in order to activate the passage ring located somewhere in the mountain in order to prepare the Outer Lands descend into to the Qliphoth due to the malfunction of the passage rings.

Before the entrance to the passage ring, Legretta, Largo and Arietta were waiting on Mt. Roneal in order to stop them. After fighting them an avalanche occurred was produced because of all the noise and activity, and swallowed both the party and the God Generals. After the party regained consciousness they ended at the very entrance of the passage ring protected by the Daathic Seal while the God Generals felt into a the ravine by the avalanche. After unlocking the seal and operating the passage ring as usual, Van Grants prepared a nasty surprise for the group. After connecting all the Sephiroths, except for the Radiation Gate to the Absorption Gate, memory particles started flowing in reverse from the Absorption Gate. Apparently Van had been waiting for them to connect all the Sephiroths and taking advantage of that power to stimulate the core. That way he could destroy the Tartarus, and strengthening the Planet Storm for his plans. Because of that all of the Outer Lands except for the Absorption Gate were in danger of collapsing. After that the party set course to return to Keterburg.

Just before leaving Mt. Roneal, Tear wondered out loud why the God Generals could believe in Master Van's ideals, as much as willing to give their lives for it.