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The
northern polar region is the home of the Red Hunters, a people similar to the Eskimos of Earth. The red hunters live as nomads,
depending on the migration of certain animals including the tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen. Little is known of them.
The
polar seas are frozen half the year. Icebergs, also called ice mountains, are a constant threat. The red hunters are generally
kind, peaceable folk. They call themselves Innuit which means "the People." They live in scattered, isolated communities and
war is largely unknown. The polar north is very dry. Less snow falls there than in lower latitudes. The snow that does fall
is less likely to melt.
Most
of the land is tundra, a cool, generally level or slightly wavy, treeless plain. In the summer, the tundra is soft and spongy
due to mosses, shrubs and lichen. In the winter, it is desolate and barren. White pelted Kur, called ice beasts by the red
hunters, also live in the polar region.
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