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Jokullheim
Jokullheim

Jokullheim

@jokullheim

The sea gives, the sea remembers.

nordic myth · ancient era · year 900

A cold coastal realm of fjords and long winters, defined by the sea and by wary dealings with outsiders. The Huld folk read the water like scripture; their villages cling to the cliffs between storms and songs.

The story of Jokullheim

Old pacts with the sea, harder pacts with the traders who come by it. Captivity and defiance are living memory. Every fjord has a name, a grief and a festival.

Places

  • Jokullheim · continent. A rugged, frost-bitten northern reach carved by deep glacial fjords.
  • The Cliff Villages · region. Terraced settlements carved into the basalt walls of the fjords, hanging precariously over the crashing surf.
  • The Long Strand · region. The only flat stretch of coastline, serving as the neutral ground for trade with foreigners.

Jokullheim

@jokullheim

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900 · Ancient · nordic myth

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  • Frost Plateaus · region. The high, interior tundras where the inland herders reside.
  • Winter Ice Line · landmark. The seasonal boundary where the northern sea freezes, cutting off travel and marking the period of the Great Hunker.

    • Peoples

    • Huld Folk · amphibious endurance, stoic, sea-augury. A resilient, sea-hardened people who cling to the vertical geography of the fjords. Marked by the legacy of their ancestors' enslavement, they carry a deep, ancestral distrust of those who arrive by sail.
    • Inland Herders · cold-resistance, nomadic, cautious. Reclusive tribes that inhabit the wind-scoured plateaus above the fjords. They view the Huld as erratic and the sea as a malevolent god, preferring the company of their frost-hardy reindeer.

    Powers and factions

    • Tide-Speakers · High Speaker Jorund. A religious order that interprets the shifting patterns of the tides as the direct communication of the sea-gods. They wield significant social pressure over the village councils.
    • Iron Merchant Company · Captain Valerius Thorne. Foreign traders who operate from massive, armored ships. They seek rare sea-minerals and furs but are treated with extreme suspicion due to their shared bloodline with the old captors.
    • Fjord Village Councils · Elder Mother Hadda. Local governing bodies consisting of village elders who manage resource allocation and defensive pacts.

    History

    • The Captivity Years · era-of-shackles. Huld folk were hunted and abducted by naval raiders from across the sea, serving as thralls in distant iron-mines.
    • The Breaking of Chains · era-of-breaking. A massive, coordinated uprising during a freak sea-tempest saw the Huld slaughter their overseers and return to the fjords on captured vessels.
    • The Uneasy Trade · 900-ic-current. The current era where descendants of the original captors have returned, claiming they wish to trade peacefully rather than conquer.

    Who lives here

    • Isa Helvenrir

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