The Endless Ice Sea

Some of the sites believed to exist in the Endless Ice Sea are Dzoulin's Cradle, Gallad's Garden, Gate of Perdition, and Print's Floe. A few of these sites are nothing more than baseless rumors, rewarding the traveler with ice, frost-bitten feet, and a remorhaz or two. Others are rumored to be in different places, and the adventurer must discover the truth on his own. These locations have historic legends attached to them, and a good rumor or two is generally enough to send even the most stubborn of adventurers gallivanting into death's arms.

Dzoulinís Cradle
This is rumoured to be acastle made of magically hardened ice, giving the structure the tenacity of iron and the yield of hardwood. Formed by melting ice and shaped magically, a modified glassteel spell was cast upon the structure, making it impervious to magical and mundane heat, fire, and lightning. It is a place revered by orcs and they worship there. It is found somewhere on the junction between Ice and Rock.

Gallad's Garden
Rumored to be located somewhere in the Endless Ice Sea, the Garden is a haven for weary travelers who think theyíve got the body heat to make it across the frozen land. This location is rumored to be a magical oasis sitting on thousands of feet of ice, yet is covered in green grass, flowering trees, and an endless supply of cool, clean water. It's a place of warmth, comfort, sunshine, and days of blue, cloudless skies. Creatures once thought extinct roam in vast numbers.

Gate of Perdition
The exact location of this gate is unknown. A few rumors tell of its location near Print's Floe, but others state it can be found due north of Mirabar by three days on the hoof. The gate's believed to send its visitors to an other-planar location wrought by unearthly cold and chill. Darnell the Unfearing claims to have crossed the Gate of Perdition's magical stoop and encountered a multi-homed, many-footed beast similar to the remorhaz. The foul creature was so contemptible and repellent that it withstood every attack Darnell laid in its way - even magical disparagements were ignored. He managed to escape to the Endless Ice Sea with barely a life intact. When he recovered from the fever of his wounds, he claimed he fought the god of the remorhaz. The surgeons and sages from Raven's Rock, however, passed off Darnellís recollections as fevered hallucinations, but they now look to the north with a little more trepidation.

Print's Floe
This unusual ice floe, named for the historically vicious orc leader who first located this perpetually vibrating area, looks like the splintered ribcage of a wolf-slain muskox of monstrous size. For the orcs who call the Sea of Endless Ice their ancestral home, this powerful location is a sacred site because of its legendary medicinal properties.

Twelve years ago, a captured orc witch doctor, under the delusional effects of a potion of truth, claimed he was the caretaker of Print, the relaxer of fever, the mender of furrows, exorciser of dementia, and the avarice of pestilence. He gave a convoluted set of trails and paths to find Print, but it wasn't until five years later that it was found. Unfortunately, a council of orcs (more than 1,000 in number) were at the site and didn't take kindly to the interruption. To this day, it's unknown if Print's Floe actually does cure all diseases, heal all wounds, and remove insanity and mental illnesses.

Darnell the Unfearing states the following. "I discovered a glacier possessing spears of ice thrust into the floe like headpikes for the war dead. Hundreds of carcasses lie around the effect, littering the ice like a chilling graveyard. Most of the bodies belonged to indigenous animals (muskox, remorhaz, wolf, and frost giant), but there were both orc and goblin corpses - some even in the bellies of huge unknown beasts whose flesh were flayed by the sharp arctic winds." Colorful as he may be, sages believe the old scout could be speaking of the ribcage mentioned by the orc shaman. Several scouts and captured orcs have given directions to the Flow, however they often seem to conflict.