Frozen Lake and Isle of Cold

South of the Chill Steppe one can find a huge body of water that's permamently frozen, known simply as the Frozen Lake. This lake is as large as a sea, and large spikes of ice, tall as towers, can be found protruding from the lake's surface. At the center of the lake lies a lone island, known as the Isle of Cold, although no one knows what lies on it. Travellers have reported that strange, gleaming lights can be spotted shining from the Isle of Cold, particularly at night, and that people that have come too close to the island's shores have mysteriously vanished with no trace, and as such, the island has earned itself a sinister reputation. 
Even though the Isle of Cold and the Frozen Lake are avoided by travellers, also due to their proximity to the Frostlands of Khelek, the Soomi of the Chill Steppe are not afraid to use the Frozen Lake's resources, which provides them with most of their fish and water. 
== History ==
What little we know of the Frozen Lake's history comes from the archives of the city of Ellesis, which is now known as Anchovia, and various other ancient sources located in ruins scattered around the remnants of the Merfolk Empire. 
Before Uun's curse befell the Merfolk Empire, the Frozen Lake was a lake brimming with life (which went by the name of "Nemorensis Sea") and actually made up the core of the Kingdom of Solara, of which the Isle of Cold (then known as "Nemi") housed the city of Aricia, capital of the Kingdom.
The Solarans were a human civilization that were profficient with magic, more than most humans of their era, and had succeeded in magically keeping the Nemorensis Sea warm at all times. The Solarans had managed to conquer the lands that now constitute the Khelek Frostlands and the Chill Steppe, although the lands of the former were largely avoided.
Then came Uun's curse, plunging the region into permafrost and blizzards, giving creation to the Isle of Cold and the Frozen Lakes. The former inhabitants and Kings of Solara were gone, with only ruins left in their wake, their ghosts sometimes still roaming parts of the Frozen Lake.
== The Mystery of the Isle of Cold ==
Some scholars theorize that the mystical properties of the Isle of Cold are caused by a magical anomaly created by some of the Solaran mages, just before their land was cursed. Some say that remnants of a large portal are able to warp anyone that gets too close to a different dimension, while others maintain the belief that this magical anomaly was the result of unbelievable amounts of magical energy contained within the Isle of Cold, which results in the immediate demateralization of unweary travelers in its vicinity.
The Soomi, however, have come to revere the Isle of Cold, believing it to be the home of Uorhmë, their version of the Khenomeric god Uromez, who they depict as a towering man dressed in a thick fur coat and riding on top of a giant ram. The ghosts and spirits of the cursed Solarans are thought to be ancestor spirits, and the Soomi are the only people who do not show to be afraid of them.
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