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Ice Spear

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Ice Spire

The Abyss of Ice kingdoms most ancient and spectacular city is known as Ice Spire and has existed for as long as the kingdom itself. The history of how the city came to be has be written and described in legend and myth by travellers and city dwellers like for thousands of years.

The Legends speak of the beginning times of the lands of Ice where man was still struggling to survive and hold on to what little life they could keep in the frozen lands.
The Tra'Mecah or "Snow People" where the first race of humans to come into this part of the world and have been known through out time as the most hardy of all the peoples of man, "Ice flows in the veins of the Tra'Mecah" as the saying goes.
Even they in the beginning of times recorded struggled with the early years of man in the frozen lands.

As the legend goes of how Ice Spire came to be was during the year of 'Winters stubborn hold', the coldest and most desperate year of the Tra'Mecah's history, nearly six thousand years ago.

As the food became scarcer by day and the nights grew colder in their fair and hide covered caves the peoples end was near at hand.

This was till Mecah a small boy of nine years wake in the middle of the night and felt the call of a strong spirit in his families cave calling him to the waking world. The voice he heard was soft and kind but also desperate and in Mecah sensed the same desperate need for help, there spirits had found one another through common cause.

The spirit was Tra "Warden of the Sea", she had been cased from her position of power and home by the other spirits after refusing to send a terrible storm of waves to destroy a fleet of man ships who dared enter there sacred kingdom of Kebbray.

Tra sort sanctuary from her enemies in the frozen lands coast knowing it to be far from Kebbrays power but she could not hope to survive with out help.

She would need to make her claim upon the frozen lands and its coastal shores in order to protect herself in her new domain but she was a spirit of the sea and had no power yet upon the lands of the world.

In Mecah she had sensed his worries and fears for his family and people, knowing that they could help in each others plight.

Tra showed Mecah a vision of a great city of Ice and stone upon the waters edge of the Ice cliffs to the east, a city in which her power could flow through its towers and walls, its floors and ceilings making it a kingdom of life in the for her and Mecah's people.

Mecah convinced his family what he had seen in his vision was real and they travelled to the elders of there people to convince them of all Tra had spoke of and shown. Some doubted that Mecah had been touched by a spirit, others belief it had been the work of an evil spirit try to law them to there dome upon the cliffs but the grand elder had put to look in Mecah's eyes to see all that he said was true.

After heeding the grand elders command for all there people to gather and make for the Ice cliffs by the sea Mecah was shown more by Tra of how there goals could be achieved.
Once at the cliffs Tra's power could be felt by all the people who had made the journey, no longer having any doubts that a spirit of Kebbray had truly come to them.

Drawing all of what remained of her power in her limbo form she gave all of Mecah's people the power of wind and sea, for one year they would have the power of Tra with in them. They would be able to move the rock and stones of the coast and waters that surround while Tra survived with in them till there task was done.

Mecah knew the design for the new home all of his people followed his instruction, for they had truly now become his people even at such a young age all the elders followed his commands without question.

Using the power of the waves, wind and the cold of the lands Ice Spear was constructed with in one year, for as long as Tra lived with in them the people did not need to sleep or eat and never felt the cold. The city they created was enormous even by Kebbrays standing, the city could house forty thousand people without difficulty for its heights where taller than the Ice cliffs themselves.

Once they where done with there great works Tra left there bodies and took her seat with in the very walls and spaces of the city filling it with light and warm. With in Ice Spire Tra's power could protect her new domain which was of the frozen lands and coasts knowing thanks to Mecah and his peoples labours her strength could not be ousted by the other spirits in these lands and seas.

As she had promised Tra proclaimed Ice Spire as her seat of power but also as the city and home of Mecah's people and for as long as they loved the lands and seas of her domain they would always live in comfort and contentment within Ice Spire.

From that day onward the Tra'Mecah where born taking the name of there beloved patron spirit and that of there saviour leader.

The Tra'Mecah has survived all winters and claims on there lands from there powerful home of Ice Spire and the Kingdom of the Abyss Of Ice will endure for as long as Ice Spire remains.

A history of legend who is to say but the people who tell it still call themselves Tra'Macah regardless and the kingdom still exists strongly with in Ice Spire and her inhabitants.
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