The Frost Skyline
An eastern wall of ridges with a road older than the ice above it.
The skyline catches wet eastern weather and keeps the interior cold. A clear afternoon reveals peaks that seem close enough to reach before sunset; generations of rescue crews have buried travelers who believed that illusion. Only three maintained passes cross the barrier.
Tarin Halvek found a fourth road beneath the glacier during the Buried Road Discovery. Its paving uses the same shell-bearing stone as the foundations beneath Highby, although no quarry of that stone is known. Following it might join histories now separated by both mountains and political convenience.
A highland survey uncovered shell-bearing paving beneath the glacier.
A highland principality guarding the passes and the engines that keep them open.
A mountain fortress whose red stone conceals a hospice rather than an army.
Eight realms have survived an unnatural winter. Their rescue may have been built on a theft.
The eastern drainage whose herb scent warns boatmen of a dangerous thaw.
Umarwald’s timber route and the northern measure of an unequal bargain.