The last lands before the Great Ocean, the Bitter Lands are a windswept, miserable place far to the Northwest. Savage seas surround them. They are cloaked in snow for six months of the year, lashed with freezing rains the rest. Ice smothers their northern reaches. In this inhospitable place the outcast Elven King Tyris Valellion makes his home.
For two thousand years he and his clan have welled there, slowly evolving and multiplying until they became the youngest of the Elven Kindreds – the Ice Elves. They dwelled here even when Winter was at her height, surviving by taking her magic and turning it against her. The inhabitants of the Bitter Lands are pale and wan, their skin cold to the touch. They are masters of Ice Lore, and can summon up blizzards or storms of sharp-bladed hail on a whim.
A tongue of ice a league across thrusts down from the far north, barring the land bridge that joins the Bitter Lands to the continent. This is Tyris’ Gate. At his command, it will pull back with a chill groan fit to shatter the heavens. This makes the Bitter Lands an unassailable fortress. Should any enemy of the Elves make it over the seas or the ice, then they must deal with the ice-tipped spears and implacable hostility of the island’s inhabitants, and their terrible weather.
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