Eye of Hjarnag

Raging Fury

Written by Endrise

Hjarnag's fury knows no bounds, not for any living Titan. For the storm rages on until their names are but myth and fable.

— Priest of Hjarnag

At the top of the world, a cyclone is raging ever since people inhabited the land. Known by the people of Nõrdlann as the Eye of Hjarnag, it is a supernatural weather barrier between the rest of the land and the Himminskalm Plateau.

The All-Gazing Eye

Undying Storm

The eye is a massive cyclone hundreds of kilometers in diameter, positioned on the northern pole of Fabulae. For as long as civilisation knows about it, it rages on with no end at a consistent speed. It does not appear to be magical either, only adding further to the mystery.

The storm itself never moves further than a few kilometers, leading to a few outposts getting ravaged by it once in a while. People also claim there is a death zone around the eye itself, where the winds become so harsh they tear through coats and skin like knives.

As such, nothing but snow and rock is found around the Himminskalm, with only a few known underground tunnels leading to its centre. But even those became lost to time, either by their entrances staying unmapped or collapsing after decades of disrepair.

The Legend of Hjarnag

In folklore, the storm's birth is due to the thunder deity Hjarnag, who made it during the Nõrdic Titan War. While fighting one of the Titans one on one, her eye got cut out and launched amongst the heavens, but she did not lose her sight.

In her anger, the eye gathered the clouds, causing lightning to strike and a storm to rage unlike any before. It drove the last Titans onto the Himminskalm Plateau, as the cyclone sealed off any escape from it. No Titan would escape it for as long her sight gazed upon them, and no person would ever free them for as long as they live.

According to the myths, Hjarnag always rests with one eye open, that being the one of the storm. If she dozes off completely, the storm calms down. Both her raven and wolf avoid this by pecking and biting her, as otherwise the Titan's spawn might escape their prison.

Found in

Nõrdlann

Type

Natural

Traversing the Storm

There are some people that have traversed the cyclone but few live on to tell the tale. Out of the hundreds of travellers, only a dozen came back with not even half of those ever reaching the mountains. Many speak of witnessing large figures amongst the storm, bigger than any humanoid, but also not hostile either.

Those that reached the mountain's roots find there is only one entrance to it, nicknamed the Scar of Himminskalm. However, either due to exhaustion or no actual survivors, nobody dares to venture further onto the plateau itself. As such, the mystery remains to what the storm is keeping secure, for better or worse...