Velious

"-VELIOUS OPPORTUNITIES - YOUR EYES ONLY NERIAK MINISTRY OF INFORMATION My lord, In keeping with your request to find out more about Velious and the : “recent journeys being made there, I dispatched our spies to gather what information they could. We have had some success, and enclosed are transcripts of letters sent by a recent group of travelers to Velious.

Day 2 The adventuring party has been moving on, and has discovered an even larger island, the third Icy Finger. This one is the largest and is covered with enigmatic stone monoliths in the shape of dragon heads. Our intrepid explorers were not quite sure what to make of these figures, nor of the mysterious markings on their bases.

Coldain Heritage and History: Volume II: A New World Inscribed by: Grand Historian Nicmar Using typical dwarven logic, Colin picked a direction to sail in and decided that their only hope was to keep sailing in that direction until they spotted land.

…There's an old Erudite saying that states, "Dwarves are like time itself, neither can ever remain idle." This certainly proved true for the new settlement. The miners quickly discovered that the hard- packed ice lying beneath the snow of Velious was as durable and malleable as stone.

…And so Glight presented his idea to Dain Frostreaver the First, son of Colin Dain and called Frostreaver for his efficiency in dispatching giants, and construction began. The Crystal Caverns were completed in a little under half a century. The timeliness of the project alone was proof to the Coldain that Glight had indeed been inspired by Brell.

Coldain Heritage and History: Volume IV: Our Greatest Loss Inscribed by: Grand Historian Nicmar The frost giants make up the largest population in the Eastern Wastes and consider those lands their home. Needless to say they did not take kindly to the children of Brell building a fortress along their northeastern border.