Norsca

Lying close to the borders of Chaos, the northlands are saturated with malefic forces. It is a frozen wasteland stalked by all manner of gruesome monsters and roving barbarians. No crops survive there, for the ground is as hard as iron and the howling winds cut like daggers of purest cold. A network of fjords and mist-shrouded islands wreath the coastline, and it is here that the Northmen build and tether the longships with which they terrorize the shores of the known world.

In the lands of Norsca, lying between the Sea of Claws and the Sea of Chaos, scattered coastal settlements provide some respite from the cruel elements, yet they are often attacked by bloodkrakens and other horrors. Further inland, the ice gives way to frozen steppes and eventually to open plains, where the tribes of horsemen hunt and stay clear of bone-carpeted Ice Drake lairs. It is a grim and shadowy land where the weak do not live long, and living means a constant fight for survival, supremacy and a chance to appease the gods.

Type

Region

Location under

The Old World

Included Locations

• Frostheim Mountains
• Gianthome Mountains
• Helspire Mountains
• Ice Tooth Mountains
• Iron Mountains
• Mountains of Hel
• Mountains of Naglfari
• Mountains of Thjazi
• Sea of Chaos
• Skadi Mountains
• Trollheim Mountains
• Ulfwerenar Mountains
• Vanaheim Mountains