The Frozen Wastes

A wall of dark ice cuts the horizon, and it was put there on purpose. The Frozen Wastes — a windswept steppe of shortgrass, sedge, lichen, rocky outcrops, low moraines, and kettle lakes north of the Whitefangs — give way, farther on, to that glacier: the final working of the Rime Lords, sealing a rift in the world. Mammoth herders spend warmer months in the wastes and shelter farther south when the cold deepens.

Use the Frozen Wastes when Stonetop's world opens into something almost inhuman: wind, cold, caribou and mammoth herders, rare flowers, dark ice, Rime Lord remnants, and fugitives fleeing where sane people cannot follow.

• Beyond the Whitefang Mountains
• Extreme cold and exposure
• Linked to northern spirits and Rime Lord remnants