Rime Basin Peaks

Posted on June 10, 2025 in Steel-Realms

The Rime Basin Peaks is the east boundary of the Barony of Cunee along the Tolkisson Mountain Range marking the NE boundary of the Grand Duchy of Rhyl in the northern heartlands. Other than some of the Ilbarsi Hill People traveling north from Orb Lake, the area has only one known ‘trail’ leading into it – The White Stairs. This location bears the Frost-Melded mark an ancient encounter with the Dragon of Rhyl.

Copper and Silver Mining: There are three operations for mining copper and silver in Rime Basin Peaks feeds smithies of the City of Fortun.

Barrier Against the Lich Lords

On the northern edge of the Crags of Ilbarsia are a stretch of peaks the run to North Gate Garrison called the Rime Basin Peaks – all part of the Tolkisson Mountain Range. Here is the sacred deep lake of Rime Cauldron of Kaerslein – Elemental Consort of Water, one of her most sacred places. A massive iced waterfall called Kaerslein’s Veil spills into it, in a roil of fog and mist that spill out into multiple low point basins generating an icy rain in the high hills – creating a mystical barrier against the minions of the Lich Lords from coming over the mountains from the Oderach Valley on the other side of the main Tolkisson Mountain peaks.

Rime Cauldron

The Rime Cauldron is a deep high mountain lake that is a catch basin that feed many streams and other basins lower down. It is said that there is a creek path carved out that runs parallel to The White Stairs for animals and followers of the elemental goddess to travel – but this is only rumor.

Kaerslein’s Veil

The Rimewyld of Kaerslein

The “Rimewyld of Kaerslein” is a Briarwood of singular power. It is warmed by the sun’s reflection off Kaerslein’s Veil. It is surrounded in fog and mist. It is not a place of sanctuary for travelers – only a place of power for priests and druids of the Green Church and Wyld Faith. It is a place of hard testing and harsh conditions.