Ice Kingdom

The **Ice Kingdom** is the territory of the IceWings, and consists of the "head," or northern peninsula, of Pyrrhia. It borders the northern ocean, the Kingdom of Sand, and a portion of the Sky Kingdom. It is currently ruled by Queen Snowfall

## Description

The Ice Kingdom is well-known for its sub-zero temperatures and freezing winds. It is beautiful, cool, snowy, and crystalline. There are islands with caves surrounding the IceWing palace, as well as dark green oceans studded with drifting pieces of ice or glaciers. Distant splashes of whales and seals carry across the cool, quiet ice, and the smallest changes can be detected in the frozen world. Winter described the Ice Kingdom to be the safest and most purely beautiful place in Pyrrhia, a landscape dotted with snowy, sheer cliffs and pure blue lakes. It is rare to find complete darkness, even at night; the gift of light is spread throughout the kingdom, and there are moon globes everywhere. There is a lot of open space, and the three moons glitter on everything: the snow, the palace, the frozen lakes, and the glaciers. According to Winter, cities in the Ice Kingdom are very carefully built. It is clear where the wealth and power are, who has it, and who can influence it.

The Ice Kingdom's land is mostly snowy, icy, cold tundra, with multiple glaciers adding to the overall shape of the kingdom. It is cold enough that almost everywhere is covered with snow. Darkstalker said that for tribes besides IceWings, the Ice Kingdom would be horrible to conquer. The map of Pyrrhia shows that there are areas of mountain and boreal forest in the Ice Kingdom, which are also snow-covered. Icebergs, ice sheets, and ice floes litter the sea around the kingdom.

Queen Snowfall's palace is located in the far north, on the peninsula. Inside the palace, there is the moon globe tree — also known as the gift of light — created by the animus Frostbite.

It was mentioned in *Darkstalker* that there were three other palaces in the Ice Kingdom.

The land in between the Kingdom of Sand and the Ice Kingdom is barren wasteland.

## Notable Features

### Great Ice Cliff

The **Great Ice Cliff** was an animus touched wall that bordered part of the Ice Kingdom. The cliff shot icicle spears at any dragon who was not an IceWing if they attempt to fly over the wall into the Ice Kingdom. It was an animus gift from an unnamed IceWing animus and was named the gift of defense. The only way for a dragon from another tribe to fly over without getting killed is to put on one of three animus-touched bracelets that prevent the Great Ice Cliff's effects. These bracelets were called the gift of diplomacy.

### Diamond Caves

The **Diamond Caves** are a system of ice caverns within the Ice Kingdom where the Diamond Trial takes place. They were named after the trial's creator, Queen Diamond. It is also known as the gift of vengeance. These caves are also where Foeslayer was trapped until Winter set her free in *Winter Turning*. Winter mentions that Queen Diamond used her animus power more than once to create the Diamond Caves, and then to imprison Foeslayer.

They are a series of caves and caverns made mostly of ice, filled with stalactites and stalagmites like any other cavern, located at the north-westernmost peninsula on Pyrrhia. Near Foeslayer's cave, there is an uncountable amount of frozen IceWing dragonets, who all died during the Diamond Trial. An underground river runs near the entrance to the cave, into a dark chasm. Inside the cave it was said to have lots of frozen dragons in different poses, most of them looking like they were in a battle. Winter thinks that they are the losing challengers of the Diamond Trial.

### IceWing Villages

All known villages in the Ice Kingdom are named as descriptive toponyms, all being long, hyphenated names to describe themselves.

**Among-the-Evergreens** is a village overlooked by Lynx's father's estate, and a mirror system for summoning backup was described to have been present nearby.

**Where-the-Terns-Fly** is an outer village that was described as a cluster of ice structures along a cliff that overlooked an ocean near the northwest peninsula of the kingdom.

**Hamlet-That-Worships-the-Whales-Who-Sing-at-Night** and **Where-the-Whales-Leap-at-Dawn** were also mentioned.

### Disputed Tundra

The far side of the Ice Kingdom's tundra is disputed territory between the Ice Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sand.