Frostmarch

The Blight Frontier

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Geography

The northeastern realm of the Alden Peninsula, defined by the Skyglass Range — a mountain chain that sings in high winds and now sings louder. Fjords ice over earlier each year. Entire valleys hold permanent rime-storms that do not break with the seasons. Surface roads are treacherous; most travel has moved underground or been abandoned.

Roughly 75% of the population now lives in holdfasts or underground. The remaining surface communities are fortified and grim.

People

Clan feuds have paused, replaced by uneasy alliances built around survival.

Common Races

• Goliaths
• Dwarves
• Dragonborn
• Firbolgs
• Aarakocra

Characters

• Lost Guide - (missing for 20+ years)
• Professor Sylic - a teacher at The Collegium Arcanum secretly studying the Frost Corruption

Cities

• Kaldhavn - the main port; quays are roofed, heated, and chained to the rock. Ships winter in place and their crews become citizens.
• Snowgate - a choke‑point asylum town, crowded with refugees from the north and hunters from the south.
• Thawwatch - no longer just flood‑watching. It measures something beneath the ice that rises each year.

Points of Interest

• The Shatterday Cairns - the cairns leak cold like breath. Some barrows open from the inside.
• Lake Hrim - the "bottomless" center now glows faintly at night. People vanish on calm water.
• The Skyglass Spire - diviners avoid it. The tone it makes now predicts who will freeze next.

Notes

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