Icecrowned Peaks

Thousands of years ago, the Icecrowned Peaks did not exist, and lands to the north - now known as The Reach - were hospitable and inhabited. It was in these northern reaches that giants attained the height of their mastery over shard manipulation: the creation of new life, a feat achieved only by deities previously. Dragons came together in an alliance up-to-then unheard of and brought a frigid, inhospitable chill to the north that not even the giants - masters of the elements - could fight back or survive. The cold drove many peoples south and grew beyond the control of the dragons themselves, threatening to freeze over all of Aedelor in an ice age. In a final effort to halt the encroaching cold, giants rose the Icecrowned Peaks from the earth to act as a wall. Although the permafrost does creep farther south than the mountain range, the giants successfully prevented the impending ice age, though the lands to the north have been lost to ice ever since.