Ice Fields (Quon Tali)

There were several areas labelled as Ice Fields on the various maps of the Malazan world. This was more likely a descriptive term rather than a recognised name for these regions.
The Ice Fields or Ice WastesForge of the High Mage, Chapter 2, UK HC p.26 of Quon Tali were a large, glacial region to the north of the Great Fenn Range. In addition to the leagues-long flat plain of snow and ice,Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 2, UK HC p.26Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 1, UK HC p.9 there were areas where the Wastes were geothermically active. Islands of heat existed amongst fumaroles roiling out great clouds of steam from naked rock, pits of mud, and upwellings of boiling water. Evil smelling gasses lingered in the low places proving deadly to those who strayed into them.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 5, UK HC p.70 The heat allowed areas where soil, grasses, and scrub bush flourished, providing an environment for mice, hares, deer, lynx, bears, wolves, and herds of large shaggy oxen.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 4, UK HC p.52 
A Quon Tali sailor who found himself marooned in the Ice Fields reported encountering "beast-men" in the region while walking south to cross the Fenn Range.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 8, UK HC p.126 
The Ice Wastes were one of the suspected locations of The Mountain of Gold, an old story of a mountain of untold riches standing at the centre of a wasteland surrounded by monsters.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 10, UK HC p.155
==In Kellanved's Reach==
The Ice Fields were inhabited by Jhek. See Jhek in the Ice Fields of the far north of Quon Tali for details.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 21, US TPB p.328-329 
==In Forge of the High Mage==
The region's islands of warmth were also home to the bestial Jhek, whose village consisted of hide huts. It was culturally forbidden upon pain of death for the Jhek to venture further north into the Wastes,Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 1, UK HC p.11 likely for physical dangers such as the bad air which suffocated the unwary, but also for the Jhek tales of "The Enemy. The Ancients who mastered the earth."Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 1, UK HC p.31
The long-reaching racial memory of the Thelomen of the Fenn Range contained stories of an ancient war that had raged across the plain. It had involved a siege of one of the seven known K'Chain Che'Malle cities, also known as the Mountains that Move, by a coalition of races which had included Thelomen. A blast of energy released in the fighting had been responsible for creating the wasteland that remained today, much like another such mountain city had turned the land to glass on a great plain far south of Stratem.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 2, UK HC p.33
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==Notes and references==
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