The Ice Runners were two large land-bound warships designed for the purpose of navigating the Great Glacier.[1]
Description[]
The Ice Runners sported sails that were over 70 yards (64 meters) wide. The bottom of the ships were fitted with enormous razor-sharp blades, allowing them to skid across the ice of the Great Glacier.[1]
History[]
The Ice Runners were built by a fire giant king in the Year of Maidens, 1361 DR for a frost giant jarl in the Ice Spires, whom he had lost to in a wine drinking contest held at a hill giant encampment. They were presented to the jarl at Twilight's Vale. In the years that followed, the frost giants of the Ice Spires would use them to conduct numerous raids upon the people of the Cold Lands.[1]
In the late 1480s or early 1490s DR the then-jarl of the frost giants, Ryndölg, sent men out on the Ice Runners for many months in search of the fabled Hartkiller's Horn.[2]
Appendix[]
- Cloudskate, a type of magical ship that skated over glass.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ray Winninger (September 1995). Giantcraft. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), p. 104. ISBN 0-7869-0163-2.
- ↑ Will Straley (2017). Jarl Rising (DDAL5-13) (PDF). Edited by Claire Hoffman, Travis Woodall. D&D Adventurers League: Storm King's Thunder (Wizards of the Coast), p. 5.