Shivering North

The 'Shivering North' is a name for the wintry regions north of the temperate continents. It is used by a lot of people from the continent of Sirnacand, and the eastern lands of Nuimucand. In Remalcand, the 'Southern Continent', people generally do not have a definition for lands that far north.

Peoples from the central, northern en southwestern portions of Nuimucand tend to use the phrase 'Icy North', or 'White Lands'.

Not a terrible lot is known about the Shivering North, except for some vague descriptions in a book called An Account of the White Lands, written by scholar Wendel Calmorra somewhere in the 2nd century BGC. Only one copy that could be considered to be in good condition is known to exist, and it is carefully stored in the Tower Library of Adalborno. According to Wendel, there is a continent in the Shivering North where ice wyrms live, hidden within burrows beneath the ice. Rual, the fabled 'City of Gold', is said to lie deep within this continent.