The Maelstrom's Mistress (I.C. Thread)
There are others in on the ship, having bought passage north, but they keep to themselves, barely even grunting acknowledgment throughout the journey. The crew of the ship are similarly talkative, though one or two joke about your chances of survival once you reach Northfall, the only permanent settlement in the Bitter Reach, and the port to which you sail.
You have all learned a few things however, the ship having made this journey several times before. Treasures and coin are regularly shipped back to the south by this and other ships, through the trader Ingmarg, the most powerful (or perhaps only) merchant to deal with the lands outside of the icy Reach.
Expeditions are sent to the ice and snow to the west of Northfall, though many never return. Of those that do, some return only with stories of extreme hardship, blizzards and attacks by ice dragons, hostile orc clans and worse. Some however, return with riches beyond reckoning and wondrous artefacts buried in the ice for centuries.
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