Tarkassia

Tarkassia was the northernmost continent of the Cradle. It was a large polar landmass that was almost entirely covered in snow and ice, and was incredibly harsh. It was vast and seemed inhospitable, but its shores teemed with life, and some of the most hardy and resourceful animals and people managed to survive in its interior. Its warmer fringes were home to the lush boreal valleys of Gildegra and the populous subcontinent of Rakkimar. 
== Names ==
In common parlance, the name Tarkassia was used. This was a Luskanisation of the Old Rakki name Tarkáþyir, which meant 'Unending ice'. In antiquity, before it was fully charted, Euluska explorers scrawled it on poorly drawn maps as Marka Iparralada Mukarike, which could be translated as 'The Unknown Northern Marches'. Vortic traders who frequented its shores during the golden ages of seafaring often regarded Tarkassia as Île Lafin Dufeyon, meaning 'End of the World Island'. Its names amongst natives of its shores varied likewise. The Feŋet referred to it by the cute sounding Ittieti, which literally meant 'Here is wilderness', and in the Yupiisut languages, the name was the cognate Atahi'i:ti. Some of the proto‐Tarkassic paleolithic tribes would have referred to it by names such as the attested Karanlaz, which means 'Lightning land', rather impressively.
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