The Frozen Heart of the Oreiad Empire

The High Empire is ruled from the northern tundra, from the icy realm of Tyr Rin Zho, called the Frozen Heart of the Oreiad Empire by the Dragonscarred, a solemn wasteland by mortal reckoning, sparsely populated, mostly only by the officials of Imperial governance and their families where the Empress Feyoung Giliaor had presided over a powerful coven of Manshrioi, and a court of frost giants, snow elementals, and ice golems. The unforgiving cold that surrounds Tyr Rin Zho renders the region little more than a frozen tomb, too extreme for most life to survive, the majority of cold-resistant Oreiad included.
But the tundras of the north are vast and the cities beyond the intense cold of Tyr Rin Zho had been many and prosperous. The settlements of the Oreiad are all organized by a central governing body and spiral out from there in ever widening coronas of gradually lessened social stature. These rigid castes are determined by a combination of governmental importance and familial bloodlines, specifically those bloodlines with the most potent magical gifts - the highest seats of Imperial governance being occupied by the most powerful sorceresses of Oreiadkind. While the social mores of the southern, mountainous settlements of the Empire differ slightly from those of the tundra, their settlements and governance remain organized the same.
While the areas surrounding the Oreiad capital city have always been dangerous, their deathly cold notwithstanding, they are also haunted by frozen spirits both ancestral and of a foreign ancestry known to neither man nor Oreiad. Worse are the storms that seem to be emanating from Tyr Rin Zho of late, intensifying the already uninhabitable chill of the capital, and throwing frigid wind, punching hail, and feet of snow every day for weeks. No one knows what is happening, but Oreiad are fleeing the tundra and their once prosperous nation for the human settlements to their west and to their brothers and sisters in the mountaintops covering much of southern Ticonderos.

Demographics

It is not clear exactly how many Oreiad actually remain living within the extremely hostile territories that the Frozen Heart has become. It is believed that there are likely more Frost Giants and Elementals living in the territory now than Oreiad, though it is also believed that the highest of Oreiad governing officials remain at the capital, shrouded in the nightmarish corona of cold currently ravaging the North.

Government

Imperial Dynasty.

Alternative Name(s)

Tyr Rin Zho, The Frozen Heart

Type

National Territory

Population

Unknown

Inhabitant Demonym

Oreiades

Location under

The Mountain Peaks