- Region
- —
- Levels
- 45–55
- Character
- Ice
- Extent
- 54 rooms
At the centre of the ice the cold stops being weather and becomes intent: the clans have said so for three centuries, and the raids that reach the Heart confirm it with instruments. The temperature holds exactly where flesh can, barely, survive, in defiance of every gradient around it, the way a room is kept, the way a cell is kept. Nothing that walks there was born there, and everything that walks there walks INWARD, drawn or summoned or sentenced, the forsaken dead in their long files, the elementals off their posts, all of it converging on the centre the way the Vashen fire once converged on a vault.
The Chronicle's coldest page holds the Heart's one recovered text, cut into the ice at the convergence in the old kingdom's hand, refreshed by frost faster than it ablates, unsigned: THE COLD IS NOT THE PRISON. THE COLD IS THE GUARD. Beneath it, newer, in the rune-hand the thaw-things leave: AND THE GUARD IS BEING RELIEVED. Everything the north is doing this decade, the thaw, the marching dead, the emptying ice, reads differently under that line, and the raids sent to the Heart go to learn which of the two hands wrote the truth.
The Heart of Winter lies in —. Adventurers of levels 45–55 find their measure here.
Elsewhere in —
- ? levels 1–55
- Blind Undercroft levels 24–34
- Cold Maw levels 36–40
- Drowned Temple levels 36–40
- Flooded Shafts levels 16–26
- Frozen Camp levels 32–40
- High Aerie levels 24–34
Denizens
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Generated from the game, 15 August 2026.