What Frostreave is Like

Frostreave

Precis: Grim frozen northern land with pseudo-vikings and snow witches; George R. R. Martin's The Wall meets Norse myth meets Russian fairy tales.

Conspectus: Ruled by Katrina Rimeheart (The Masked Queen of Iron and Ice); dread stars worshiped as gods (Caiphon, Hadar, Gibbeth, etc.); berzerk warriors who ride polar bears into battle; githyanki raiders from beyond space and time; frost giants, trolls, and rakshasa in skeletal forests; mead halls, drinking contests, and skalds recounting tales of valor; reverence for the Raven Queen (a goddess of death) and her shadar-kai Valkyrie servants; dwarf artificers; grim fatalism; Baba Yaga and her traveling hut; white dragons; the hallucinogenic mushroom forests of Khem populated by mad goblins

Taste, Sound, Image: Meat all bloody and red washed down with ale, Neurosis's Enemy of the Sun, Frank Frazetta's The Silver Warrior.