Reimgard, Palace of the Frost King

Reimgard, Palace of the Frost King

This ancient palace is centuries old, built by the first Frost Giant king of the arctic Massadorian tribes when the Massadorian Age was at its zenith.

Built by the Frost Giant Kaldt Tyrann’s extensive retinue of Human slaves, Reimgard was the seat of power for the Frost Giant barbarian kings for hundreds of years. From his seat at Reimgard, Kaldt Tyrann had one goal in mind: Conquering the northern arctic lands and consolidating himself as sole ruler over the disparate barbarian tribes of the region. Rallying an army of loyal supporters, Tyrann first began his campaign by subjugating the smaller, weaker tribes and adding them to his own followers. Within months, the Reimgard tribe had become a force to be reckoned with, and within the span of two decades, Kaldt Tyrann’s kingdom stretched from the tip of Northfrost Shore to the Worldscythe Mountains, all opposition crushed beneath the jackboot of his iron-fisted rule.

For nigh on two hundred years, the arctic kingdom of Reimgard stood as a testament to Kaldt Tyrann’s strength and battle prowess. Yet, as has been proven throughout history, no kingdom lasts forever. Towards the end of the reign of Kaldt Tyrann’s grandson, Ulfyr, a rival warrior named Kenar Icereaver began gathering his own following, accusing the Tyrann line of being nothing more than power hungry tyrants, who denied the various tribes their rightful freedom to choose their own destiny. Fully half of the subjugated tribes of Reimgard rallied behind the rhetoric delivered by Kenar, and took the name Icereavers as badges of honor, denoting their loyalty to his cause. For the remainder of Ulfyr Tyrann’s reign, the kingdom of Reimgard was ripped asunder in civil war, with neither side gaining an advantage over the other for fifty years. It was not until the war had raged for almost a full century, long after the death of Kenar Icereaver at the hands of his rival, the newly ascended King Gravnar Tyrann, son of Ulfyr, that the Icereaver tribe of barbarians began to gain any sort of ground.

It was Kenar’s own grandson Kevdan who finally brought an end to the reign of the Tyrann line of Frost Kings with the divine assistance of Elur, the Lord of Storms. Praying at a small shrine for ten straight days with no food or drink to prove his natural endurance, Elur granted a vision to Kevdan Icereaver of a great battle fought beneath the slopes of Drakescale Peak, a single, solitary mountaintop that served as the gateway to the Elemental Plane of Water. If Kevdan met with Gravnar Tyrann beneath the slopes of this peak, Gravnar’s armies would meet with a crushing defeat. Trusting the vision from Elur, Kevdan immediately rallied his forces and challenged Gravnar to meet him on the field. Gravnar, unaware of the prediction made by the Storm God, Gravnar agreed, convinced he would finally crush the Icereaver tribe.

The battle raged for nearly an entire month, thousands of deaths littering the battlefield. On the fifth week of the month long battle, however, Gravnar launched a surprise attack against Kevdan, catching his forces off guard for the first time since their initial meeting weeks prior. Fighting a desperate battle to regain control of the battlefield, Kevdan cried out for deliverance, believing Elur to have forsaken him in his hour of greatest need. Upon hearing Kevdan’s distress, the slopes of Drakscale Peak as well as the surrounding flatlands shook with a great shifting of the earth; the result of a deafening, bestial roar coming from the heavens. From the top of the peak, their swooped a great winged beast, silver scales gleaming in the sun, who covered the armies of Gravnar Tyrann in a lethal hurricane of ice and snow issuing forth from the beast’s mouth. Frozen in ice where he stood, Gravnar Tyrann was then shattered by the great two handed great ax bearing the tribal name of Kevdan’s followers. The shock of both the appearance of the flying creature, as well as the death of the Frost King at the hands of someone who appeared to be blessed with Elur’s favor, prompted the immediate routing of Gravnar’s forces. With his death, the lesser chieftains assumed direct control over the territories of Reimgard, and the Palace of the Frost King fell into disuse and disrepair.