The Ice Palace

The Ice Palace, also known as the Ice Palace of Perfidium, is a towering fortress seemingly made entirely of ice that recently appeared atop the Stoneheart Ice Plateau. It is, in fact, an incursion into the material plane from Kainus, a realm of the Nine Hells.
Entry to the palace is indeed a step into a passage to Hell itself. The incursion was created through the summoning rituals of the warlock Kal-Tior as he called upon the strength of his patron Count Perfidium of Kainus, a high prince in the Court of the Nine Hells. On the spot of a collapsed ancient dwarven empire, Kal-Tior sacrificed more than 600 members of an ice gnome tribe upon the glacier. Their blood was mixed with the icy waters of Cocytus, which caused a thunderous crack heard as far away as Reme and Bard’s Gate.
The rent in the fabric of reality allowed a mirror duplicate of Perfidium’s Palace to break into the mortal plane. The palace is guarded by a contingent of ice devils, white dragons in service of Perfidium, ice mephits, frost giants, winter wolves, and an army of ice goblins formed from the soulless husks of the sacrificed ice gnomes.
The palace sits upon a vent of Hell itself and is both cold as ice and boiling with hellfire at the same time, giving the region around it an unholy glow. It appears in the form of a stack of massive snowflakes with crystalline edges of indescribable beauty silhouetted against the sulfurous nightmare glow of the Infernal Realms.
During the deepest coldest months of the year, Count Perfidium can gate a powerful avatar of himself onto the Stoneheart Ice Plateau and occupy the mirror throne. It is at this time that his servant Kal-Tior is at his most powerful.
Count Perfidium is sworn to free his ancient mistress from her prison in Grimburg and has influenced Kal-Tior to do his bidding in the execution of Perfidium’s ancient quest.

Stronghold

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Alternative Names

Ice Palace of Perfidium

Type

Palace