Ice Kindred are reclusive and utterly hostile to outsiders, the Ice Kindred hide away in the Bitter Lands.
About
Though not a proper Kindred, a small contingent of elves have set up in the Winterlands under the rule of Prince Talannar Icekin, the exiled brother of King Tyris. His frozen city of Chill has gathered all sorts of distasteful races to it, though what Icekin plans remains unknown.
Talannar is a worrying enigma to the elves. When he was still known as Talannar Valellion, this unremarkable prince was exiled from all of Elvenholme for bringing great shame upon his kin. Exactly what his crime was is neither recorded nor shared and the high lords of the elven realms likely thought never to hear of him again.
Not so. What was rumoured to be a settlement of the Ice Kindred in the far north turned out to be something else entirely; a remarkable Young Kingdom under the rulership of a reinvented and renamed Prince Talannar Icekin. The elves do not have a clear picture of what happened to Talannar in the great northern Winterlands.
From what little is known, the exiled prince wandered the world for centuries alone, eventually striking north as far as he could go and traded his rings – priceless heirlooms – for the loyalty and protection of at least one savage tribe of ogres. These brutes carved out his first settlements and kept his borders while, by some unknown sorcery, Talannar rebuilt and raised a greatly-spired city from the very ice and rock.
He named this glistening capital ‘Chill', a simple word known to many folk in many tongues, and, in an act that would horrify his forebears, threw open his court to all who would come before him. Now Chill is a beacon to many savage folk. Besides ogres, tribes of northmen have bent their knee before Talannar’s throne, as have snow trolls and even dispossessed dwarfs. And, of course, word of his realm has attracted elves who have cut their ties to the old world and sought new glories as part of this Young Kingdom.
Half-elves, outcasts from their own lands, seem to hold a particular attraction, and a welcome home, within the walls of Chill. Mercenaries returning from campaigns in the far north name Talannar the ‘Silver Emperor’ and spend freely with freshly minted silver coins bearing the marks of Chill and Icekin. Of the city itself they speak of great wonders. Beyond its blue tinged icy walls, warm gardens flourish brightly beneath the mighty sweep of many-faceted towers. Bright banners line every avenue and music and song ring through the air. These sounds are accompanied by one even rarer and more precious: the laughter of elven children; seldom heard in the ancestral south.
Also known as Ice Elves
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Ice Kin Model
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Ice Kin Art
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