Plane of Ice

Ice, the combination of water and air, with water dominant. Corresponds to the month of Winter Dawning (roughly December). Aspected to memory, for good or for ill.

History

Originally part of the Plane of Water before the planar realignment at the Cataclysm.

Rulers

As part of the Plane of Water, it was originally ruled over by Tatsuryuu until her cursing by the Titan Conclave during the First Age. Her daughter, Selesurala, took charge of the plane until the planar realignment, when she was involuntarily exalted to godhood. Her lieutenant Isskap took command of the portion that became the Plane of Ice, and ruled it until overthrown by a combined force of mortals (the Wild Cards) and planar beings. The resulting power vacuum has not been filled to this date--the ice palace Kek still remains empty and cursed.

Geography

Glacier-covered mountains and endless ice fields surround small habitable (to mortals) valleys of tundra, moor, and bog. These valleys are mostly near the border with the Plane of Ocean. As one approaches the border with the Plane of Cloud, ice storms and blizzards become almost continuous--very little lives here other than ice elementals and mephits of various types. At the other border, with the Plane of Ocean, the mountains give way to floating ice sheets, breaking into icebergs and pack ice as one crosses over.

Approaching the Crystal Sphere means moving into the endless dark and cold. The mountains give way to a flat plain of ice; the light of Eua dims, and even the storms cease. Eventually, even the ice gives way to empty space. Going the other direction, toward Eua, is entering elemental chaos. Once you approach the orbit of Primus, the elements are so jumbled as to present no consistent pattern. This is the most hostile area--strange super-heated ice elementals, blazing storms of ice and fire and rock--these are everyday near Eua.

Places

• Valley of Memory
• The Diamond Fields
• The Hall of Frozen Memory
• Kek
• Estokh
• The Grinding