Mos Kheer

The Ice Plain of Mos Kheer is the frozen high steppes of the north-western Western Marches. It is 80 to 100 miles across in any direction, although the western boundaries of Mos Kheer have not been mapped. The steppes are surrounded by the glacier-filled Northern Divide, the Black Forest to the south, and the Kheer Tal grass steppes to the east. Mos Kheer is at an altitude of over 6,000 feet. The prevailing winds come down from the glaciers of the Northern Divide, bringing a continual cold flow, even in the summer months. The orcs and humans inhabiting the rest of the Marches are unable to survive here; instead, the only inhabitants are small groups of trolls.

These trolls live in extended familes, living off the scattered mamoth and reindeer herds, and following their migrations from the summer pastures of the divide, to the winter calving grounds in the Kheer Tal. During this time, the trolls actively defend their herds from the Kipchak, DeBourgnac and Cuman humans. This, combined with the invasion of Weisbaum and Aveice in the War of Cain in Summer 801WK, have given the trolls an unwanted reputation as violent marauders.

The trolls are not magic users, but know a fair bit about the dangers of facing earth and ice magics, of the darker side of ensorcellment.

See the adventures Neither Hare nor Thar and Hi Kipchac in for more information.