Icy Reaches

The Icy Reaches, also often called the Barren Wastes, are a vast frozen wasteland at the northern pole of the world. Wrapped around the entire globe, the Reaches are desolate and devoid of almost any sort of life.
The Reaches are little explored, with only the southern coast of around half of it mapped. It is home to no nations, and unlike its southern counterpart, the Frozen Clasp, the Reaches are resource poor. It is home to only one known settlement - Freeport - a neutral town on the southern-most known cape, populated by fishermen, whalers, fur trappers and hunters from all over the world.
What animals do survive in the Reaches are monstrous indeed. Limited exploration attempts have often ended in death at the hands of colossal creatures, grown to utterly insane sizes. For this reason, the Reaches are also often known by the nickname "The Land of Nightmares". The most notable and unusual of the animals are as follows;
*The Tokros - a colossal serpent, capable of tunneling through the ice and frozen ground to lie in wait for any unfortunate enough to pass by.
*The Waintigo - a distant relative of the Yeti of northern Isaevi, yet grown monstrous and even more aggressive.
*The Ourochai - a massive bipedal killing machine, armed with four scythes upon its arms. It cares little for anything other than quenching its unending hunger.
*The Snowprowler - the largest of all known felines on Oryndiil, it is coloured perfectly to function as an ambush predator.
*The Ixithon - a species of large insect, with a superificial resemblence to a land-dwelling lobster. Little is known of this species, yet it appears to have a rudementary form of intelligence similar to a common ape or dolphin.
*The Mujalh - a species of carniverous mammals, resembling a horrific cross between a bear and a fly.
All known species of the Reaches are carniverous in nature, even what little plant life exists there. Any explorer with a hint of common sense knows to avoid venturing inland, or death will surely find them.
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