Features
• Stunted forests
• Howling winds
• Mist-shrouded waterfalls
• Mining settlements
• Nomad encampments on high plateaus
• Ironlander caravans hauling bounties of ore
• Wary giants keeping their distance
• Mammoths grazing in alpine meadows
Description
These highlands are defined by rugged hills and low mountains, thin conifer woods, and wide, grassy plateaus, leading up to the heights of the Veiled Mountains. Through most seasons, the constant ill-winds break against the sides of the hills, screeching and moaning. In the dead of winter, some say these winds carry the names of those fated to die during the long cold season.
Nomadic Ironlanders live among the hills, herding livestock. In the spring and summer they move among high pastures. In the winter, they find some relief from the brutal weather in sheltered valleys.
Others live in mining settlements, drawing iron ore from riverbeds and shallow digs. Their furnaces, sending up plumes of black smoke, convert the ore into wrought iron, which is sent south for trade with the Havens.
Associated Foes
• Jokul
• Silver bears
• Mammoths
• Iron wyverns
• Cave lions