Pallar Icy Fields

Approximately 85 percent of the surface of Pallar, one of the three major islands of the Frozen Isles, is covered by an ice sheet known as Pallar Icy Fields. While it is inhospitable, the people of Pallar do often travel small stretches of it, to cross to the other side of the island.

Geography

by James Padolsey

The Icy Fields is the largest ice sheet in the known world. Several smaller ice caps cover both Pallar and the other islands of the Frozen Isles, but none come even near the area covered by the Icy Fields.
With many ice streams and glaciers draining the Icy Fields into the Northern Sea, the vast expanse is a treacherous terrain. However, the Frozen Landers have lived in these circumstances for many generations and several paths across the Icy Fields are well-travelled by companies specialised in glacial navigation. The most common route travelled is the Mel-Barra Highroad, connecting the cities of Mel and Barra. Thanks to the recent invention of crevasse crawlers, this road has been halved, as the Melda Crevasse no longer needs to be circumvented, but can be safely crossed.

Flora and Fauna

Life is extremely sparse in the Icy Fields. Flora can only be found in the form of some mosses where glaciers meet the sea. And, fauna is only a little more common with polar bears, arctic wolves, arctic foxes, arctic hare, ermines and several arctic birds travelling across the icy landscape on their way home.

Uncharted North

The northernmost part of the Pallar Icy Fields is also known as the Uncharted North. Nobody knows what lies beyond that large expanse of snow and ice and glaciers, with maps often depicting a large plain filled with monsters of all kinds.
Several expeditions have been attempted in the past, but all unsuccessful with no survivors to tell the tale. With the rapid development in science, technology and mystics, plans for new expeditions are being put forward to the Frozen Lander Council, and maybe in a few decades time we will finally know about the North’s wonders.