North and South Poles

The North and South Poles were created by the Lifeblood in the great age of creation before the retreat of the divines from Galbar;There could be no snow without land. Filled with new resolve, The Lifeblood tugged deep inside itself, and an outcropping of blank stone jutted from below the waves. It pulled and pulled, eking out more and more stone to shape, until finally, there was yet another island, this one long and fat and stretching not far from the mainland's coast. With a single touch, the stone exploded into white, besieged by snowflakes of infinite shapes and sizes. Now, whenever the snow touched the water's edge, it turned hard and ever colder, spreading across the water in a sheet of crackling, frosty sea ice. ...the Lifeblood sculpted, shaping figures from the ice. Figures with thick fur, insulated against the elements, shaded white and gray to protect themselves from predators, or perhaps to conceal themselves from prey. Brown, hooved shapes with antlers that would fall to herald Gibbou. Swift, silent vulpines and lagomorphs for them to hunt. Hardy lichens and mosses to eat away at the rock beneath, paving the way for future grasses. Tall trees that grew at a glacial pace, with medicinal bark to heal those that might find themselves injured in what seemed a wasteland. Beneath Oraelia, it would thaw, and the many creatures would prosper. And beneath Gibbou, they would sleep, guarded by her long night. ...Even in the most brutal of climates, it seemed, life would still teem. Somewhere far to the south, an identical land sprouted, as equally icy and inhospitable as its northern counterpart.https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5088735
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