Plane of Ice

Also known as the Frostfell, the Para-Elemental Plane of Ice borders the Planes of Air of Water.

It is a place of utter cold.

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41 #battle #Kulduhar The lowest level of the cavern housed the crumbling remains of a Yuan Ti structure. Up its stairs a pulsing blue portal flooded the room with glacial light. The icy expanse they saw was the Frostfell, the Plane of Ice. Interacting with this rift was an ornate metallic box, energy seeping between it and the portal. Crank rushed past a hoard of enemies and went to shut the box, but the cold seered his hands, the box refusing to move. Before the party could properly deal with this phylactery, the frost salamander, roper, and vine blights in the room had to be slain.
41 #Kulduhar #TheRimeoftheFrostmaiden #TheChosen Peering into the Frostfell Portal, our heroes saw three figures in its distance. The first bore the owl head and beastial form of Auril. Back turned to the group and kneeling to her was a muscular nude figure they did not recognize. And head turned askance, peering directly through the portal, was Vurnis. She was dressed in white robes and bare-chested, the thick wounds across her throat clearly visible. She smiled in acknowledgement. Above them, in the distance, with ethereal borders draping across it was an aerial vision of Icewind Dale. It dawned on our heroes that this portal wasn't the only bridge between planes. Their encounters before, like with the frost salamander in the Lost Spire, the broken portal of Varrin Axebreaker that launched them into the Frostfell temporarily, and the gripings of Sloopidoop who attempted to portal out of Sunblight Fortress and landed at the wrong location. These were fundamentally linked occurrences.
39 #TheRimeoftheFrostmaiden #Kulduhar Azgul, accompanied by Oona and Fern, sought out Vellynne Harpell. The necromancer was seen packing her sled with the help of a zombie Bartaban. She was heading to the tundra to investigate a nagging thought. Something felt wrong with the Weave, she admitted. The cold was colder and the Dawn did not stir in her magical equipment as it should. The party recognized a similar passing, as their Boon of Lathander had diminished with time. In a previous travel, she and Azgul II, who had since turned into black ooze, encountered a frost salamander. Such a creature was native to the Plane of Ice, not of the Prime Material Plane. The party too had fought one of these, back in the Lost Spire. They had also been thrown briefly into the Plane of Ice itself, when Varrin Axebreaker attempted to use a Cubic Gate. When asked about Kuldahar, Vellynne encouraged them to go. The Great Oak was known to be a wellspring of divination magic. Perhaps its druids could see what was wrong with the Weave in Icewind Dale. Sharing now between them that the Reghed Glacier held the entrance to Ythryn, she revealed that the key to crack the rimed waterfall, whatever that key exactly was, was likely held on Solstice Isle. Vellynne would like to band together to head to retrieve this key.
28 #battle #TheVault Varrin found what he was looking for - a Cubic Gate. This was an extremely rare item, gifted from the elves to his dwarvish ancestors, it held portals up and down the Sword Coast from Amn to Ironmaster. Varrin was excited to promise a better future for the Valley's clans with these gates, allowing an influx of trade and opportunities to alleviate the ever-going winter. Eager to show it off, he opened a portal to Baldur's Gate, but a fierce and piercing cold instead ripped through the vault. Glacial blue ice spliced between the columns and metalwork. The party was thrusted halfway between planes, in an interstitial space between the Material Plane and the Plane of Ice. Gadget was a translucent figure yelling at the party to get back from a vault that appeared far away, but the remaining five were delayed by two looming rime hulks, primed for battle. As huge cubes of frost crashed to the ground, Azgul was pinned while the portals began to collapse. With a quick rescue by Oona and company, they made it safely back to the vault. It appeared, though, a few dwarves were missing. Azgul promptly intimidated the shaken Varrin to grant them another item for the mess they were dragged into, obtaining the group a Circlet of Blasting.
26 #battle #TheLostSpire Crank swigged down a Potion of Cold Resistance and dropped below. There, the party fought a cornered ice salamander, an inhabitant of the Plane of Ice that had wormed its way into this realm due to the endless winter. As the battle came to a close, Tetro dispatched Krintaas who was barely hanging on. Very soon after a second battle started when remains of the forgotten tower's wizards manifested as sorrowsworn. Battered, the Gadget rescued a dying Fern while her homunculus Finn struck a killing blow to dispatch the shadow creature. Thus the party was able to step into the tower's rune chamber.