The frozen wastes

Once the workshop of the gods during the creation of Tholoria, northern Veldras is an unexplored mystery to the mortal races. Those who traveled too close would suddenly feel the urge to return home. Those who chose to continue would encounter terrible weather conditions and be forced to give up or risk death. Those that chose to risk death would only make it so far before being overwhelmed with a sense of danger or fear which eventually convinced them to turn away. Those who continued would face dangers which were unimaginable to the folks back home. All who made it this far either fled or perished. The few survivors who made it home, told their tales, only to be laughed at or considered mad.

After the war of the races, the gods decided that Tholoria was better left alone. They would still intervene when required or offer aid to those who truly worshiped them, but they chose to leave the world to recover from the war and see what the races they sculpted are truly capable of without the direct influence of the gods.

Their home contained many of their past failures at creating races and previous promising creatures who ended up not working out. They felt that the barriers they had placed were good enough to keep these from reaching the rest of Tholoria and left to start work on a new world. Some of these creatures adapted and started breaking down the barriers which held them at bay. They managed to break free over the course of time and wandered the workshop of the gods freely. The gods noticing their barriers did not hold, decided to destroy their workshop sending storm after storm after storm to cull the creatures and destroy the workshop. The end result of these storms came to be known as the frozen wastes. The races sent expeditions to map the area, but none returned. There were the occasional pack of monsters who came down from the north and after many skirmishes, Twin Guard was established to keep these monsters at bay while additional expeditions could be sent to determine their source. The skirmishes started becoming more frequent and finally Twin Guard was tasked with defending the rest of Veldras from the frozen wastes. All of the races have sent reinforcements to aid in the defense. Those who end up in Twin Guard either committed unspeakable crimes, were stationed there when reinforcements were required or are just plain mad and volunteered. What is currently known about the frozen wastes is limited to what has been seen from ship and by the survivors of skirmishes along its entrances. A few expeditions have been made by ship and a couple of landings have been made, but most were driven out by the weather or gotten lost with the remaining crews returning without much information but what they could see.