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>From: "jorganos" <joe_at_...>
>To: HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:58:27
>
>John Hughes
>
>> And when the rain cloak of Skyfall Lake just
>isn't wet or
>> cold enough... how about an isolated mountain
>valley on the
>> ocean edge of Valind's glacier?
>
>You mean the northern edge? The western edge of the
>Glacier is far
>out on the ocean, without any mountains ever shown
>in any maps.
>
>I'd make it the edge near the White Sea if you want
>mountains or at
>least hills to go with the Glacier.
>
>> Barbarian type pcs, close interaction with new
>types of
>> elder races and powers, mysterious raiders and no
>contact
>> with the outside world for centuries. Much
>skiing, shivering,
>> avoiding avalanches and sheltering from
>supernaturally
>> powerful thunderstorms.
>
>For a slightly cosier version of this, think of
>lava beds below the
>Glacier - huge domes melted into the ice from
>below, with islets
>peeking out of the icy torrent which gets
>occasionally steamed up
>where it encounters new volcanic activity.
>
>You get to see no sky, just the icy dome above.
>There is light -
>diffuse, through the ice, depending on the season.
>You'll get things
>like ice-encased Aurora Borealis. It will be
>possible to raise some
>kind of crop (something like rice-paddies in the
>melt-off puddles?).
>
>Hollri might attack in the shape of kamikaze
>icicles. Trolls will
>roam the higher, dry clefts of the glacier.
>(Other?) Vadrudings might
>enter the region.
>
>I'm even inclined to give this enclosed place a
>population of polar
>bears and other arctic (and ice age tundra)
>megafauna.
>
>There might not be any timber available, which
>should provide for an
>interesting technology based on beast bones or
>cast-rock artifacts
>(from the lava streams). Heating would be available
>from carrying
>cooling lava. Fires would be discouraged as they
>poison the air.
>
>
>For further inspiration, think Viking Iceland,
>Jules Vernes' "Journey
>to the Middle of the Earth", and Alan Dean Foster's
>"Icerigger"
>trilogy. The choice of the magic system is up to
>you, about any
>should be applicable. This might even work as an
>apostate Mostali or
>very strange aldryami outpost.
>
>
>Another, similar exotic setting could be one of the
>nearer
>underworlds, where some earth people (sort of
>humans, or very minor
>daimons) cohabitating with giant shrews or moles
>fight off invading
>troll giant insect herders. They'd need some source
>of light in their
>vast main cave, but that could be a fallen Star
>Captain chained to a
>pillar in the middle of the cave.
>
>
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