INDITHAR

singular · the northern range · unsworn to any power

The Winter Above

The Winter Above — singular · the northern range · unsworn to any power. An illustrated plate from the Bestiary of Indithar.
The Winter Above — singular · the northern range · unsworn to any power. An illustrated plate from the Bestiary of Indithar.

Every other entry in this book was something else first. This one was not — and the compiler of this volume wishes to state plainly that she does not know how she knows that, only that every source she consulted agrees, and that not one of them cites another.

It holds no ground below the snowline, takes no tribute, and has never been known to want. All four powers avoid the northern range. Not one of them has ever explained the arrangement, and the librarian notes that this is the only subject on which all four are silent in the same way.

where
The high range above the Preserved Lands. There is no road.
what is said to work
Nothing has been tried in eleven hundred years. The survivor of the last attempt described no battle — only a silence, and the discovery that he had not drawn his sword.