Isvak

Isvakstad Harbor, located within city walls

Location of the Sharktooth Isles on the map

### Summary

Isvak, also known as the Sharktooth Isles, are two isolated islands in the middle of the Northern Sea. It has the Farlands to the west, Macaque Pines to the south, Chronotopia to the east, and the North Pole to the north, and is often used as a resting stop for travelers making their way across the freezing ocean. It makes most of its coin by selling lumber, and metals, and it even has a small community of Water Proboscis under the docks of its capital, Isvakstad, that mines ores from the ocean floor. It is also home to a prominent fishing industry, with ample amounts of fish, whales, and sharks in the surrounding waters.

The island is also a major producer of ships within the Yeti Kingdom, with its pinewood desirable for shipbuilding as it's tough and dense, but able to be put under stress to bend, and is also very resistant to rot. It was discovered by a Yeti known as Torgeir, the Adventurer, who brought the news home and later got the honor of colonizing it by King Warybar. The Sharktooth Isles has two main islands, Geirland the larger boxy island, and Orkö the smaller slithery one. The seas of the Sharktooth Isles are aggressive, and the coast is lined with jagged rocks, the waters in the bays are deep, making the few spots not plagued with jabbing crags perfect for harbors. The dark rivers that run out of the island are wild and aggressive, with waterfalls prevalent, making it impossible to row up the rivers. Geirland's interior is a land of pines, with low-lying mountains.

The Sharktooth Isles earned its name when Torgeir dropped one of his silver arm rings into the Bay in Isvakstad, which was only a small hamlet settlement at the time, and when he plunged into the eerie waters below and reached the bottom where his silver arm ring laid, capturing the few of rays of light, he noticed the sea floor was flecked with shark teeth. This startled the big yeti and gave him a spooky feeling about the island, and its mysterious history. There are small ruins of stone huts scattered across the islands, most along the coast, and there are buried skeletons of a version of the Uakari, which is larger and has longer fangs. A theory about the excess of shark teeth on the ocean floor is that past inhabitants lived on the meat of the sharks that infested the coast and just dumped the teeth into the bay, but the vast amounts of them in concentrated spots makes monkes theorize it was a sort of ritual or celebration.

### Locations

#### Isvakstad

The capital of the two islands, it goes by the nickname "Jaw Harbor" as the jaws of marine life are often used as decorations and a frightening greeting to any visitors. It is guarded by a wooden wall, three yettin tall, and they also have large rocks planted on the snowy field to stop the advance of siege equipment. The coast around the city is rocky, and the harbor is guarded by a chain held by three towers, two connected to the city wall, and one resting on an island between them, with two chains able to be raised if any hostile ships approach.

#### Chronstad

Located on the slithery island of Orkö, Chronstad is an underground city, that you are only able to reach by entering the mouth of a great cave, with defenses such as a metal chain (like Isvakstad) to hinder any ships, along with ballistas. There is an entrance on the ground also, carved into the rock of a massive stone, leading into a tunnel that reaches the opposite end of the city's water entrance. The cavern is roomy, with a bay and harbor not far from the cave entrance, and the buildings are built like they were above ground, with moss planted across the stoney floor to soften it. Some buildings rest on the walls of the cave, and some also live in ships with the masts removed, hung in the roof by metal chains. When the sun rises, it will shine into the mouth of the cave, and the water will reflect it, but during the late day and night the city grows dark, and the citizens will combat this by always keeping torches lit.

The cave is part of an underground cave network, and one can reach other caverns by traveling the waterways with rowboats, but not larger ships as they don't fit. Barely any Yetis live in the other caves, but some travel to them to hunt the cave fish. Glowing Stalactite and Stalagmites are found in the caves, Chronstad's cavern also had it, but it was removed after one fell and impaled a Yeti. The isolated grottos are quite strange, and Yetis have reported the sight of glowing monkes creeping between the crags and in the waters, but nothing is confirmed