Category | Marvels |
Continent | Brucrumus |
Region | Ice Cap |
Owner | Frilksif |
Built | 12 Kindle 8776 DE |
Map | Kindarum |
In the Creation War (1486 DE - 8777 DE), the primordials pulled an unthinkably large landmass through a rift. Named the Ise of Angvild, it carried an army of storm and cloud giants under the leadership of Talos. The purpose of Angvild, according to Warvild's grand strategy, was for it to be a mobile base, floating across the Bal-Kriav's oceans like a great sailing ship. Fortunatly for those battling the primordials, the Covenant, the island soon found itself lodged in an undersea mountain.
Talos visited Poseidon, Geb visited Poseidon, both then visited him. He was the only one with the resources to carry out undersea work that would require many thousands working for months. Poseidon refused each time, saying the resources expended to extract Angvild far outweighed the benefits of a floating island. He explained the problems of the island's size, what would happen with storms and currents, and traveling across turbulent seas, all leading to the same predicament. He would then berate them, telling them to give up on Warvild's Grand Strategy and join up with him if they were serious about surviving.
- Sesen, merfolk court chronicler to Poseidon - "Angvild Anchor"
With Angvild moored, and the war requiring them elsewhere, Talos and Geb left with their armies. Before leaving, they put in play a backup plan. With the center of Angvild made of great seams of Jurungen, workers would dig out enough to make a floating island.
On 12 Kindle 8776 DE, a project that had been in the works for over a century came to fruition. Talos returned to Angvild on the day his sky island separated from the land beneath. Named Krarkauk after one of the magical giant-sized pickaxes used in its making, the sky isle floated on the winds like a cloud.
Talos's dream of using it as a flying island bastion against the Covenant's great fortresses ringing the rifts at Regadnîn was not to be. The Creation War was winding down. Captured and banished from Bal-Kriav for a millennia, Talos's last act of defiance was setting Krarkauk adrift on the winds. Aboard Krarkauk, ex-soldiers and civilians, mostly cloud and storm giants, traveled across many lands, leaving dozens of settlements along the way.
In 712 LE, for reasons still unknown, the sky-isle of Krarkauk came to a stop in the Ice Cap region. In a frigid part of the world, crops failed and Krarkauk's population declined. Over the next century, an influx of natives and local fauna started a recovery. As a result of growing commerce with the land below, great spans to the slopes of Netheram.
In the Horgon Era, Krarkauk was annexed by the Aslauthroan Empire (9 HE - 1891 HE).