Winter's Museum
The Winter's Museum is the realm of Morana. It is an eternally frozen land, possibly even the coldest place on any plane. Many mistakes this name place, as it is only the area and surroundings of the Winter's Museum, which floats slowly above the landscape.
This is named a museum and not in naught; Many creatures, from any world, abberations, celestial, fiends or prime material ones, are found here - frozen in Ice.
Inhabitants
Petitioners of Morana take on the forms of cold elemental spirits, which are immune to cold and electricity and resistant to fire and sonic damage. These beings inflict cold on anyone they touched. Nearly 20,000 such damned spirits reside within the palace walls alone. Other creatures of ice, such as cold element creatures and ice para-elementals, also dwell throughout the realm, as do frost giants and an assortment of wolves, including winter wolves, normal wolves, worgs, and even werewolves. All canine monsters that enter the hall became charmed to obey its frost giant inhabitants and become servants of the frost giantess Ingrid the Serpent-Tongue. The pack of canines is led by White Fang, an albino yeth hound.Rumors & Legends
Winter's Museum is rumored to be the true source of the Styx. According to the legend, a mix of melting snow, divine poison and the blood of a tortured deity flowed into Pandemonium and became infused with the plane's evil.Geography
The realm of Winter's Museum is a frigid tundra fraught with violent winter storms, with winds rarely slower than 30 miles per hour. Visibility is only a few feet, because of the extreme blizzard conditions. As one travels deeper into the realm, it grows colder and colder until the land is covered in a vast sheet of ice. It is said that there is no colder place in the multiverse, and anyone not taking shelter takes extreme damage from the bitter cold.
Morana's palace itself is formed from wind walls and ice. It appears like an inverted iceberg, hovering over the ground and surrounded in thick fog and freezing rain. Almost a mile in both diameter and height, it is the size of a small city. Huge crystalline extensions jutted out from the core of the fortress palace and are colored royal blue to sea green.
The bottom surface of the floating palace includes a giant window of shaped wind to view the ground below. Also located here is a dock for flying vessels, such as astraljammers and airships.
The interior of the palace is a labyrinth of passageways. The Promenade, is one of these, and it cuts through the whole height of Winter's Museum, a latticework of pathways of crystal and support columns. The Promenade is lit by will-o'-wisp and other glowing creatures entrapped in ice globes. At the top of the Promenade is a dome of pure elemental ice. Morana calms the winter storms surrounding the palace if she wants the polar lights to be visible through the dome. At the base of the Promenade is a twin oscillating structure of chaos called the Abattoir, where bloody sacrifices are once performed in an attempt to trap Theras forever in darkness and ice.
Deep within Winter's Museum is the Lyceum of Frozen Shadow, or Amon Thyryr, Morana's throne room. Morana's throne itself is carved from frozen blue fire. The throne room is carved from the beating heart of the primordial Durbaagal.
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