The primary article on the snow-unicorn riders has been extensively updated! http://www.tornworld.net/settingpageview.php?id=19

This is a great place to start for an overview of the Northern culture.

February has been declared "Worldbuilding Month" by Aldersprig and
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In our Monday installment of the South Meets North saga (and in another POV, in 'Turned Back', printed today), Birka and Dareg attempt a conversation while too far apart to shout. The snow-unicorn riders have a formal long-distance communication method using arm gestures and poses. This article looks at both informal communication and body language ( Read more... )

In our South Meets North storyline, Malaamig has just been introduced to the snow-unicorns. Let's take a look at these giant creatures!


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In our last episode, the Northerners are speculating about why Malaamig isn't wearing a necklace. Let's look at the significance of necklaces in their society!

Necklaces - by multiple authors ( Read more... )

We didn't get enough comments for a bonus episode today, so instead, I'm posting the handbook entry I missed doing on Wednesday due to server errors and Sketch Fest ( Read more... )

A few installments back, Tiren lamented that he and his party had missed Flower Day.

From our reference archive:

Winter solstice is on the 19th of month 8 (yushimev). For about 10 days around this date, there is no sun visible at any time of the day in the north. The light from the sun beyond the horizon can still be seen, so there is some ( Read more... )

Kladeith was the Northerners' first post-upheaval historian. As groups of survivors found each other, she made it her business to interview them about what their parents and grandparents had told them of the Upheaval and to make copies of surviving books and journals. (Much knowledge was lost as they had no means of pre-upheaval data retrieval ( Read more... )

Hot springs are not uncommon in the north, but most are small pools that are either too hot or too chilly to make good bathing, are hard (or even dangerous!) to access, or are unpleasantly strong with minerals ( Read more... )

Two Fridays ago, our intrepid Empire explorers stumbled across the Folded City.

Little remains of the city now besides a strange semi-circular scar on an uplifted area of land and some rubble at the base of the face of the mountain. The base structures of a few buildings still cling to the near-vertical face, particularly at the perimeter ( Read more... )