Inzurakthol

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Before the coming of the cold and glaciers, the splayed peaks of Inzurakthol held evergreen vales. Remote, high-up on a 6,000' plateau, it was home of ice trolls, frost giants and the scattered towers and keeps of a dozen dwarven clans, all distant descendants of the Khage.

In 441, following population measures of Gwildath, colonists pass through a feywild fuses, arriving in the deep forests around Kulaan Ruus. Aliens from the world of Kriav, to the natives of Inzurakthol these Kriavfahliil were a strange sort of elf, preferring the security of stone over wood, and an openness unlike the wood elves they had either dealt with or heard about. These new arrivals became allies and friends of the close-knit dwarven clans out of necessity.

In 791, a white dragon named Amaglothorn brought about great change in this area. Inside the dragon's lair, Ice Tear, a hole was made in the Web of Magic, unleashing an otherworldly cold upon the landscape. Lasting fifty years, it became known as Amaglothorns Breath (791 - 841). Ice, snow and glaciers slowly filled the vales, driving out all but the icy brutes. The vale's southern clans, the Damizdaluk, went south to Gruordock, while the northern clans went west to the ancient city-state of Gulud-Turam. Inzurakthol's elves moved east into the Cartáricil Forest and resettling Pardhaer.

Today, this glacial landscape is home to numerous clans of frost giants and fog giants; many answering to the Jarls of Inzurakthol. The area is also home to remorhaz, huge ice trolls, ice mephits, white puddings, and other icy horrors.

The fog giants of Inzurakthol were once frost giants. When tribes of these people moved into Kulaan Ruus and Reym Kulaan they either went mad, often murdering family and friend, or in a fit of depression throwing themselves to the mercy of the depths. The few giants that survived the madness, corrupted by the abyssal energies of Ghak, became something different, fog-like giants that lurk among the great fog banks around Kulaan Ruus and Reym Kulaan.