04-21-2007, 02:37 PM
The Northern Wastes is a frigid, inhospitable region that lay in a large depression in the Gelid Mountains, northwest of Mount Tellamon. This region is constantly under the cloud of winter and its temperatures rarely rise above about ten degrees below zero Celsius.
There are near-constant blizzard conditions here and a traveler can rarely see more than twenty feet ahead of themselves.
Animals here include a few elk, wolves, and some large hunting cats and bears in addition to some small rodents.
As one moves deeper into the area there is a strange rock formation that is extremely large and stepped as it rises out of the ground like a massive pyramid. It would be extremely difficult to ascend under the best of circumstances but here it is an exercise in insanity. Partially due to the weather, but the futility of the act is reinforced by the giants that prowl the strange structure. Rumors have it that there may be an ancient temple of some sort at the top of the formation, although no one has been able to confirm this as no one is known to have ever returned from an ascent up the formation.
There are near-constant blizzard conditions here and a traveler can rarely see more than twenty feet ahead of themselves.
Animals here include a few elk, wolves, and some large hunting cats and bears in addition to some small rodents.
As one moves deeper into the area there is a strange rock formation that is extremely large and stepped as it rises out of the ground like a massive pyramid. It would be extremely difficult to ascend under the best of circumstances but here it is an exercise in insanity. Partially due to the weather, but the futility of the act is reinforced by the giants that prowl the strange structure. Rumors have it that there may be an ancient temple of some sort at the top of the formation, although no one has been able to confirm this as no one is known to have ever returned from an ascent up the formation.