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The Frozen North

The Frozen North

Head of State: N/A
System of Government: None
Major Religions: None
Minor Religions: Morvana; Triplicity; Cults
Languages: Troll; Orasken; Tarn
Major Species: Trolls
Minor Species: Bearkin
National Descriptor: None

The Frozen North is not so much a country as a description. There is no formal border with it; the Frozen North merely begins wherever the ice wastes become so cold and deadly that it is no longer worth attempting to hold land and enforce control.

Five Rumours about the Frozen North

Rumours may be known by characters who are not from and have not visited the Frozen North. This is just a small sample of rumours you might have heard about this bitterly cold region, in which only the hardiest can survive.

  1. The Frozen North is unbelievably cold. A human’s blood would freeze in their veins if they travelled too far into it!
  2. The rare inhabitants of the Frozen North are uneducated and savage, with no concept of life beyond the ice.
  3. A great, pale shadow sends endless blizzards down from the north to kill the unworthy, and creates gigantic animals as its minions.
  4. Deep beneath the ice lies a huge portal to the Plane of Water, but no-one can reach it because the ice is miles thick.
  5. In the Frozen North, even the sky itself is frozen!

Five Facts about the Frozen North

For your OC reference, or IC if your character is from the Frozen North or has visited it in the past.

  1. Hunt to Survive: No crops can be cultivated on the thick, unmelting ice, so those who live there move with the prey, hunting whatever crosses their path or fishing from the ice floes.
  2. Indistinct Borders: The nomadic people of the Frozen North occasionally wander far enough south to enter lands claimed as part of Rakvand, Orask, or North Bylltar. Regardless of this, they do not consider themselves subject to the alien laws of those lands.
  3. Tiny Communities: Most of the Bearkin and some of the Trolls of the Frozen North live in small, tight-knit tribes, while the majority of the Trolls lead solo existences, hunting in their individual territories and spending time together only to raise children.
  4. Gigantic Animals: The Frozen North is home to various ice-loving beasts, including – in the far north – giant varieties of the smaller, more commonly-known ones that live nearer the edge of the ice.
  5. A Thousand Beliefs: Superstition is rife in the Frozen North, with every vagary of the ice potentially attributable to malicious or benevolent entities. While most of these supposed beings do not seem to grant power to their believers directly, some do…