Place of the Blooming Ice

The Place of the Blooming Ice was an Imass village in the Elder Warren of Tellann that existed in the past--or in a moment held from the past.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.201/203 It was a blustery and freezing landscape of snow, which blew on the air beneath thick black and grey clouds.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.201/206 The Imass lived in domed hide tents secured by heavy stones not far from a coastline of bare black rock overlooking a frigid iron-grey sea.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.201/205 Across the water was the jutting spur of a small island atop which stood a hill.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.205
Near the village was a gigantic stone structure which was the home of the tribe's Bonereader, Jahl 'Parth. The structure was
entered through a broad and low opening resembling a cave mouth. A tunnel of smoothly worked and dressed stone led to a large chamber lit by a meagre fire that left the walls and ceiling in shadow. The chamber did not seem to be built to a human scale.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.202 
==In Kellanved's Reach==
In the time before the founding of the Malazan Empire, Kellanved and Dancer passed through a gate in Shadow in search of the First Throne of the T'lan Imass. The shivering pair quickly made for one of the Imass huts, startling the elders inside who mistook them for spirits. One of the elders brought them to Jahl 'Parth, who recognised they sought the Throne. She tried to warn them away from meddling with powers they did not understand by revealing how limited their knowledge was. She disclosed that her home was a former city of the K'Chain Che'Malle that her people had succeeded in destroying after twenty generations of warfare--it had been her bloodline's only purpose. The mage countered that they sought knowledge, not power.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.198-204
Jahl 'Parth informed Kellanved that she knew the Throne's location, but chose not to tell him where it lay. When the mage said he would have to blunder about looking for it without her help, causing trouble and blaming it all on her, she laughed and brought them outside to a blustery stretch of coast. She pointed to the hill on an island, identifying it as the site of the Throne. Once the island had been connected to the mainland, but the water had risen over the centuries threatening to submerge it. Once more she warned them not to seek the Throne, saying none had ever returned from the island, before disappearing back into the thick falling snow.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.204-206
Dancer found a small boat of wood and hides that they paddled to the island, where it broke apart on the rocks and sank. Finding a cave they followed a tunnel into the room containing the First Throne.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.206-209
==Notes and references==
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