Winter Night Valley

The valley is situated on the most remote end of the Sea of Snow. It is narrow with steep walls towering on both sides. The walls are covered completely by frost and the path leading into the valley is also covered by thick ice and snow drifts, so much so that the earth underneath cannot be seen.
If one would remove all the snow though, a frozen river would be uncovered. Immense boulders of ice and snow drifts block the way, while the walls only permit one to see the sky high above. In the whole valley not a single plant can be found. No life can exist here except the fairy creatures made out of ice. They wander about looking for intruders to rob their souls.

The encampment in the Winter Night Valley

It is a simple camp, housing only a few explorers and magicians that investigate the ancient objects in the Tower of Wailing Winds and the frozen life in the Valley of Winter Night. They depend heavily on regular supplies from the Harf Trading Post, without these they could not survive.

Foxtrack Cave

The Foxtrack Cave is a bitter cold cavern full of snow drifts. Normally this is sheer impossibility, but they exist nonetheless filling the cave with a mysterious atmosphere. The cave was given its name, because an adventurer once found a foxes footprints in it. As he followed the tracks into the cave, he met an outstanding fox, which he described as follows: “With a woven silver-white coat and eyes sparkling like a clear crystal he was surrounded by a mist of ice and snow.” The adventurer was found eventually in the Sea of Snow claiming he had brought along the foxes coat as proof. The only thing in his frozen hands though was a small layer of hoarfrost. Some say that this fox is also mentioned in the Barbarian Snowfox legend.

The Frozen City

At the far end of the Winter Night Valley stands a castle made of thick ice. The city of ice was created through both nature and human work, and displays a magnificent but also intimidating beauty. This place is the “Frozen City”, the residence of the Ice Queen. Some say that the Ice Queen guards some great power here. Others say that the queen herself is this very power. But nobody has returned from the innermost part of the Frozen City alive. The only thing one can be sure of is that the “Boundless Soul” from the Minotaur legends is on the summit of this mountain and that the only way to this summit is through the Frozen City.