The High Ice

The High Ice is a glacier located to the north of Anauroch. Desolate and barren, the High Ice is home only to snow elves, various monsters and a few hardy dragonborn clans, outcasts from their homeland of Abeir.
Before the collapse of Netheril, the High Ice's growth was halted by Netherese magic. After the collapse of the empire, however, this magic failed, allowing the High Ice to grow drastically, encompassing much of the region to the north of Anauroch.
A few subterranean cities do exist within the High Ice. The most famous of these is the Smokeholes, an area of large, round vents where hot cloud-like plumes of steam spew out from underground flows of lava known as the Caverns of Burning Ice. Many gnomes and dwarfs have been known to mount expeditions down into those treacherous caverns, braving their noxious gases and salamanders for the veins of rare ores fabled to lie within.
Legends tell of the northernmost part of the High Ice in actuality being a huge white pudding, hundreds of feet in diameter that doesn't move, simply waiting for creatures to come along and be devoured by it. Ancient Netherese ruins are also said to lie well-preserved within the ice, protected by restless spirits and various monsters who have come to inhabit them. Runlatha is the only such city to have been confirmed to exist, but is buried so deep beneath the ice that no one has been able to access it.

Type

Glacier

Included Locations

• Hartsvale