Thanks so much for this Jorganas (Joerg?). I'll try and respond imaginatively once I've stopped dancing round the room.
John
> John Hughes
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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> I'd make it the edge near the White Sea if you want mountains or at
> least hills to go with the Glacier.
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?).
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> 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.
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> I'm even inclined to give this enclosed place a population of polar
> bears and other arctic (and ice age tundra) megafauna.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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