Glacier

The edge of the great glacier.

The great glacier is the enormous body of ice covering what used to be the great Dara Happan Empire—including the former home of Rider and Wheel ancestors, the Golden City of Nivorah, crushed beneath the ice. Other cities are said to be protected under the huge dome built by Manarlavus, including Orlentos and dread Alkoth.

Ride Like the Wind

As the world grows colder, the glacier continues to grow and extend to the south. For example, you may visit the dwarves of Noastor, only to return and find nothing but ice where you met them.

The god Yonesh, the Cold Sun, may be connected to the glacier. Certainly your explorers feel his power there.

Events

You can encounter the glacier during Glacier's Edge.

Aside from the one illustrated event, visits to the glacier are generally uninteresting and lacking in rewards. All your explorers will find is ice.

Myths & Rituals

It figures in your legends, and in the ritual Hyalor Tablet Maker.

Lights Going Out

In Six Ages II: Lights Going Out, the Berenethtelli, and perhaps other Rams, attribute the glacier to the bandit god Valind.

By the time of Lights Going Out, the great glacier is no more, destroyed by the forces of Chaos. It has given way to what your clan calls the Northern Reach, a poor and rugged land where only a few Dara Happan refugees struggle to survive.

You can hear the following rumor in Lights Going Out:

“	I hear that a <Other Clan> exploring party reached the great glacier that long ago smothered the Golden City. There they met a goddess known as the White Princess, who gave them jewelry made of ice that never melts. I would be willing to lead our own explorers to find out if this is true. <Afterall, some claim that the Dara Happans melted the Glacier."	”
— Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out

Lore

Your clan ring can say the following about the glacier:

• "Valind the Glacier was the god who crushed Nivorah, golden city of our Rider ancestors."
• "Chaos demigods did not dare beset Nivorah. But then the glacier drove us out. "
• "Our ancestors maintained Yelm’s sun temple for generations after his death. But they could not take it with them when they fled Nivorah, and it was crushed to nothing by the glacier."

Myths & Rituals

The glacier is briefly mentioned in the myth How Horses Came to Orlanthstead.

Images

The glacier destroys Nivorah.

The glacier, as seen from the Last Tablet Plateau.

The glacier is still growing, encroaching ever southward.

Yonesh, a god associated with the glacier and with cold in general.

Valind the Icy, a god associated with ice, cold, and chill-wind.

The forces of Chaos wreck the glacial dome shielding the Dara Happan empire, as seen from the Otherworld.