Glacidryne

Glacidryne is the planet containing the Ring of Frost. It is far from Aywen's Planet. The planet itself is mostly made up of heavily compact ice, giving the planet a crystalline appearance. The planet is divided into two sections: The Glass Woods and the Glazed Palace. It is three light-hours away from its star.

## The Glass Woods

The Glass Woods is a large forested area full of crystalline terrain and fields of snow. In the forest, pines grow all over the place, and the thick snow piles on top of it, weighting it down. The needles on the pine trees are frozen solid, and the snow is packed enough to be walked on top of. Many jagged mountain peaks protrude from the ground, almost seeming to be geometric. Icicles attached to trees grow to be as wide as logs and as long as spires. Few villages exist within the forest, buried under avalanches and years of blizzards.

Many streams and rivers flow all across the forest, mostly without bridges altogether. The streams of the Glacidryne have strange properties. For one, the rivers are warm, contrasting the freezing atmosphere of the planet. Secondly, the water repels things, giving the appearance of walking on water. For example, a person would be unable to bathe in the water. Instead, they would merely be dipped inside for a very short amount of time before being shot to the surface. A person can walk across these streams with ease, as long as no hydrophobic material is worn. The effect works on objects as well as people. Because of this, the only bridges seen around Glacidryne are fallen tree trunks. Also, the strange geothermal activity of Glacidryne is not only located within the Glass Woods. However, it is much more common in the forest.

Deep in one of the forests of the Glass Woods, there is a particular cave that a heated stream feeds into. This is an attraction known as Niko's Lazy River. A business named Niko is prevalent within Glacidryne, known for producing attractions. Niko's Lazy River is the most famous example of Niko's creations. It travels downwards through a chain of winding caverns full of bioluminescence. Finally, the ride ends within a pool of water below a ceiling full of bioluminescent life. There is a hidden door within the pool that leads to an underground beach, heated by geothermal activity. There is a small city by the beach where many live, attempting to escape the harsh atmosphere up above.

## The Glazed Palace

A way away from the forested section is a large path that leads towards a large palace made of ice. The path leads into the depths of the forest, allowing the palace to be found with ease. The path itself is a large rectangle of cleared forest made up of a combination of 'swampy parts' (as named by The WHOLE Package), which creates an effect that makes the path appear to be made of dirt. However, this is an illusion involving a multitude of different materials, notably steel and ice. The dirt-like trail catches the eye of all who dwell within the forest, as it is the only real way to see dirt outside of the palace (although the dirt is fake). This effect is used all around the palace to create dirt and grass.

Further along, the trail begin to widen all around the palace. There are trails on all four sides of the palace, each leading to the forest. Each trail of the Glazed Palace is protected by large, spiked balls of ice, which roll across the path periodically. The path by the palace's entrance is extremely well maintained by people who refresh the ground's supply of swampy parts day in and day out.

**The Glazed Palace** is a medium-sized building, cylindrical in shape. It has a dome-shaped roof. The building itself uses effects created by swampy parts to look *more* like ice, by intensifying its blue color and its glassy texture. Despite the palace having four paths, the building only has one entrance, on its southern side. The interior itself is deceivingly small. The interior is a single hallway that leads into the a medium-sized cube-shaped room where the throne of Queen Marinyr resides. The room is small by intention, as the floor is made out of square shards of ice whose purpose is to fall under pressure (in a similar function to fall-tile ceilings seen in schools).

The floor gives way and reveals the underground section of the palace. The majority of life on Glacidryne is concentrated in the underground sector of the Glazed Palace. From the top section of the palace, the bottom section is constructed to by a wavy, cylindrical cavern that leads deep into the ground. The walls and ground of the underground section appear to be grassy and made of dirt due to swampy parts, using the same trick utilized on the paths leading to the palace. From a crevice far above, a heated waterfall runs down through the entire underground, from the ceiling to a pool on the floor.

Each wave of the cylinder is used as a balcony. The edge is blocked by a frosted metal fence to prevent anyone from falling due to the uneven and slippery ground. In each wave, there are dozens of doors that lead to large apartment complexes, which in turn lead to more doors and even more doors. Each apartment complex connects to one another, allowing easy access between buildings.

The very bottom floor (wave) of the palace contains no apartment buildings. However, it contains a single large pool which catches the flow of the waterfall. The bottom floor is full of grass and small flowers. The temperature in the bottom floor is warm enough to allow grass to grow without issues. Because of this, illusions involving swampy parts are only used to saturate the colors of grass and foliage. In the southern wall is a locked door which leads to a generator room. The generator is a large, donut shaped metallic instrument. This generator supplies power to the entire palace, as well as the hidden defenses outside. However, there is a door in the northern wall which leads through a long, winding passage of pure steel. This eventually leads to a sub-section of the palace known as the **Dome of Verglas**.

The **Dome of Verglas** is a barren and stormy environment, contrasting the usually tranquil Glass Woods and Glazed Palace. The Dome, as the name implies, is a domed area. The interior of the dome is completely invisible from the outside—it appears to be a large pile of snow from above. However, the outside can be seen from within. Within the dome are many jagged mountains that protrude upwards higher the farther from the entrance to the dome. Nearing the top of the dome is the tallest mountain peak, which contains a small, empty cavern. Outside of the cavern is the *Ring of Frost*, floating just above the ground.

The dome itself is stationed at the bottom of a nearly-vertical cliff edge. At the top is yet another section of the Glass Woods, although barren.

## Trivia

The Dome of Verglas is a part of the Glazed Palace. However, it is treated as a separate location entirely. Because of this, the door to it is typically locked as tight as a bank vault, and no one is allowed entry aside from Queen Marinyr and her higherups.

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