The massive, frosted expanse of the Southern Icefield once enveloped the entire lower hemisphere, rivaling the size of the continents watching from above. The Icewarden and his brood now resist northern threats from the glacial prisons that they maintain at the bottom of the world. This harsh landscape has embittered generations of its denizens over time, lending to increasing hostility towards outsiders as the landmass continues to shrink.
Region Information[]
The cloistered southern tundra, guarded by the Icewarden and his subjects.
Zone Element: Ice
Reigning God: The Icewarden
Native Breeds: Gaolers and Tundras
Native Beastclans: Centaurs, Longnecks
Subregions[]
Frigid Floes[]
This gleaming field of floes is a fleeting reminder of the former size and glory of the Southern Icefield, which once rivaled expanse of the northern continent. Recent warm weather and intrusions from the children of Fire and Lightning have contributed to the fractured landscape, each conflict pushing the puzzle pieces further apart.
Frozen Sanctum[]
An ancient magical apparatus built to monitor the ley energies flowing throughout the Southern Icefield. The Frozen Sanctum provides invaluable analysis on the strength of latent ice magic and relays it directly to the Oculus of the Eleven, where it is monitored and researched by skilled magisters and scholars.
Snowsquall Tundra[]
The only pockets of what can pass for wildlife now huddle themselves into the brush of the tundra, which blankets the heart of the icefield. Dense evergreen forests skirt the mountain ridges, and many dragon clans huddle in wicker caves and huts nestled deep in the trees for the better part of each year.
Dripcave Dregs[]
The most widely-used entry point to the hidden domain of the Gaolers, the Icewarden's first children. This gateway is staunchly guarded, even with the breed's efforts to integrate with the rest of Sornieth. Down here, the mandate of their deity still carries tremendous weight, and only those with express clearance are permitted to enter these lonely pathways.
Cloudscrape Crags[]
This desolate string of mountains overlooks the frozen waste, and are among the tallest in the world. Even the hardiest of the ice dragonflight keep their clans safely below the harshness of the peaks, as those who have ventured upward never return.
Reclaimer's Glacier[]
Desolation extends across this seemingly endless expanse of hardened ice. Named for its tendency to prematurely end the journeys of the brave travelers that attempt to traverse it, this blizzard-battered glacier is among the most unforgiving places in the realm. The brutal temperatures that never reach above freezing and distance from the sea mean that food and shelter are resources that dragons must prepare in advance.
The Fortress of Ends[]
A frigid, unforgiving monument to the archaic past. From out of craggy, inhospitable terrain grow spires of impenetrable ice, covered in hoarfrost. Within these looming towers exist creatures, horrors, treasures, and even the ice flight's own denizens, trapped forever in unending preservation. And they are being watched.
Rimebone Stockade[]
Carved vertically into the dark stone, the deepest layers of the Rimebone Stockade entomb many of the ice flight's most important treasures. Utilized more as a storage vault than a prison, the relics and wonders within are protected by the region's artificers and researchers, who make their lairs in the uppermost cells of the pit.