The Frozen Sea

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At a Glance

The northern reach of the Sword of Anauroch, west of the High Ice.

Landmarks

Source

  • Anauroch [FR13/9320]

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The High Ice

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At a Glance

The ice-covered northern reaches of the Anauroch Desert.

Oxbow Lake and Nyanza Lake —now known as Wyrm Rift and the Rift of Stars— once marked the southern edge of the Reghed Glacier. During the phaerimm assault on Netheril, most of the water in the realm vanished. This altered the circulation of wind and dramatically cooled the local climate. The ice advanced southward to fill in the void left by the vanishing Narrow Sea. This finger of the glacier has sat unchanging (except to grow slowly thicker) for a thousand years or more, now, and has became known to the lands around as the High Ice.

There are many crevasses on the High Ice, and they are deadly treacherous places. The greatest and most terrifying are the named rifts. Rivers and lakes once lay here; the water is gone but the ice has grown over and around them without filling them in. In many places, only a thin shelf of ice, covered with a dusting of snow, holds the unwary explorer above a yawning abyss… often hundreds of feet deep and lined with long spikes of ice.

Visiting

Landmarks
  • Black Wing Rift
  • Blind Rift
  • Dagger Rift
  • The Ice Wall
  • Lammar Rift
  • Llashloch
  • The Long Rift
  • Maedrin’s Rift
  • Malkyn’s Rift
  • Oume Rift
  • The Rift of Stars
  • The Smokeholes
  • The Tagorlar
  • Untrivvin
  • Wyrm Rift
Neighboring Nations & Features

Source

  • Anauroch [FR13/9320]

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The Plain of Standing Stones

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At a Glance

The central highland of the Anauroch desert.

Landmarks

  • Aerithae’s Rest
  • Dark Bones Rift
  • Dragon’s Back Peaks
  • Dry Rift
  • Fallen Giant Rift
  • The River of Gems
  • Helm Rift
  • Heroes’ Helm
  • The Hidden Valley of Srindin
  • The Pillar of Tauros
  • The Quarry of the Titans
  • The Shattered Tower
  • The Snout Mountains
  • The Swordpoint
  • The Tagorlar
  • The Throat
  • The Weeping Warrior

Source

  • Anauroch [FR13/9320]

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Singing Cave

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At a Glance

A cave on Mount Hans, at the edge of Tarkhaldale.

Source

Passing Mention

  • Song of the Saurials — interior map

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Wizards Folly

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At a Glance

One of the Desertsmouth Mountains, at the edge of Tarkhaldale.

Source

Passing Mention

  • Song of the Saurials — interior map

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Mount Hans

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At a Glance

One of the Desertsmouth Mountains, at the edge of Tarkhaldale.

Source

Passing Mention

  • Song of the Saurials — interior map

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Mount Dix

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At a Glance

One of the Desertsmouth Mountains, at the edge of Tarkhaldale.

Source

Passing Mention

  • Song of the Saurials — interior map

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Mount Andria

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At a Glance

One of the Desertsmouth Mountains, at the edge of Tarkhaldale.

Source

Passing Mention

  • Song of the Saurials — interior map

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Freezing Point

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At a Glance

Located in Tarkhaldale.

Source

Passing Mention

  • Song of the Saurials — interior map

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Tower of Ashaba

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At a Glance

The Tower of Ashaba, also called the Twisted Tower, is built by the drow in what is later known as Shadowdale. It’s named (among surface-dwellers, anyway) for its proximity to the River Ashaba, and hence for Ashaba.

Campaign Notes

The tower is featured in the Beneath the Twisted Tower adventure in the 2e campaign set, as well as the Avatar trilogy. Since the tower was built by drow, I think it would add some flavor (and frustration) to declare that the drow built it on their own scale. This would make things kinda cramped for humans. Drow average 5 feet tall (Races of Faerûn directs us to use the height/weight numbers for elves in the 3e Player’s Handbook) so here are a few dimensions to use if you want to scale the tower (especially the above-ground floors) to drow proportions.

  • Ceilings are 6.75 feet high in hallways and up to 7.5 feet in rooms.
  • Interior doors are 5.75 feet high and 2 feet wide, with handles 2.75 feet above the floor.
  • Steps, unless otherwise noted, are 5 inches high and 9 inches deep. This is a little short and shallow for humans.
  • A comfortable corridor for a drow is 2.75 feet wide — this is the equivalent of 3.5 feet for humans. A 10 foot wide tunnel would scale down to 8.75 feet.
  • Shoulder-level pegs in the wall are 4.25 feet above the floor. Many of these pegs might be corroded or missing, but the holes would still be there, some filled with grout or roots and others open.
  • “Eye-level” shelves are 4.75 feet off the floor.

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