Difference between revisions of "Pohjola"
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==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||
| + | === Cold Mountain === | ||
| + | === Wood of the Warm Lakes === | ||
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| + | === Frostfell Steppe === | ||
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| + | === Kyllikki: The Town of White-Harbor === | ||
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| + | === The Darkling Sea === | ||
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==Known Gates from Pohjola== | ==Known Gates from Pohjola== | ||
=== '''Gate of Karhu''' === | === '''Gate of Karhu''' === | ||
Revision as of 11:29, 24 April 2021
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Contents
On the nature of the Frostfell
Geography
Cold Mountain
Wood of the Warm Lakes
Frostfell Steppe
Kyllikki: The Town of White-Harbor
The Darkling Sea
Known Gates from Pohjola
Gate of Karhu
The Gate of Karhu, otherwise known as the Gate of the Forefathers is located at one end of the Wood of the Warm Lakes. The gate itself lies unattended above a slowly decaying ice-ruins. The gate is formed from an ice-cave shaped like the head of a bear. Great-Bear cave extends underground deep within the permafrost. The gate originates in one of the galleries of Great-Bear cave, and the gate itself is a vertical pool of golden light that disgorges travelers, although this hasn't happened in centuries.
Originally, the Twelve Tribes of Karhu arrived via this gate and they build a temple to honor the spirit totem of Karhu who created the gate and save them from a terrible and now forgotten fate. A set of ice-stairs rises from the gate-gallery and slowly ascend through several other galleries until reaching the bear's mouth and the surface.
The opening to the outside, the cavern of the Bear's Mouth is carved from ice to look like the interior of a bear's mouth, filled with stalactites and stalagmites of ice that form the bear's teeth. From the creature's lower jaw a set of stairs formed from large flat blocks of ice form a slowly descending cascade of steps to the forest floor. On either side of the stairs are a dozen pairs of bear-shaped ice-sculptures that glow with golden light while the gate is active.
