The Frozen South

A region of Northern Emalze that was known for having been a peaceful, happy kingdom until the Coldscales, a family of massive, hateful white dragons suddenly emerged from the mountains and fueled by nothing but their raw loathing for humanity began to spew frost upon the land.

This was stopped thanks to a combined effort of the Citadel, Verest, and The Burning Throne, particularly a war hero by the name of Reth Flareheart caused the lake now known as Coldscale's Bane to form into a massive hot spring and for a great geyser to spew forth to scald away the scales of the Coldscales, with only a single one surviving to fly away and never be seen again.

No one knows what happened to the last Coldscale, but their mark still touches this world as a great Boundary of Frost surrounds Emalze, forming a barrier that makes traversing through land nearly impossible without going through a great cold that even shatters and breaks steel with sudden cold snaps, and the land they once called their home remains in a state of perpetual winter, the ground covered in a thick layer of permafrost.