North of Nordhiem
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If you go far enough north along the coast of Vanaheim (in my campaign) , you sight a ruined stone dock and an ice covered stone road.
The road leads inland. Following it, an unnatural storm decends and you are attacked by a great Icebeast ( (a Gnoph-Keh, a creature created by Sorcery years ago)
At the end of the road, magically protected from the ice, you sight the Tower at the Edge of the World. The Tower was built by a sorceror fleeing the destruction of the Elder Hyperborea (written of by Clark Ashton Smith) centuries before.
The Tower is the lair of fearsome Snow Apes.
Eventually, you confront the lich of the sorceror with an ice-cold touch that drains the life from you and transfers it to him. He can only be slain by the touch of a ice diamond gem he guards , the Stone of Eibon.
Further north lies Elder Hyperborea itself, incased in a shroud of ice.
For more info, check out the Film Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger and CAS stories of Hyperborea.
The road leads inland. Following it, an unnatural storm decends and you are attacked by a great Icebeast ( (a Gnoph-Keh, a creature created by Sorcery years ago)
At the end of the road, magically protected from the ice, you sight the Tower at the Edge of the World. The Tower was built by a sorceror fleeing the destruction of the Elder Hyperborea (written of by Clark Ashton Smith) centuries before.
The Tower is the lair of fearsome Snow Apes.
Eventually, you confront the lich of the sorceror with an ice-cold touch that drains the life from you and transfers it to him. He can only be slain by the touch of a ice diamond gem he guards , the Stone of Eibon.
Further north lies Elder Hyperborea itself, incased in a shroud of ice.
For more info, check out the Film Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger and CAS stories of Hyperborea.
The same could be said of many gods, up to and including Set. In REH's work the difference between "God" and "Demon Lord" is blurry. There is certainly no reason why Ymir shouldn't live up in the northern waste, and who is to say that he's not a god just because he's physically present? I wouldn't mention that to his face...
Of course equally he may be a myth, though that leaves some explaining to be done about his daughter.
The King
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It can be a spirit taking the form of a beautiful woman trying to lure males to their doom.kintire said:
There are a lot of legends like this one (i.e. sirens).
I think this story we are refering to is very similar to Lovecraft's "dreams in the witch house". The hero is clearly dreaming but his subconscious has taken over the control of his body and experience thing he couldn't fathom and apprehend if he wasn't dreaming.
Subconscious is also the place where all fears gather and are put there by the conscious mind. Opening it is like opening the pandora box.
A subconcious image with a very physical veil... and I'm not convinced Howard was so into subconcious.
Anyway this is hardly the point; it COULD be anything, but if you want to put a real Ymir up in the far north, the lore does not forbid and, to an extent, supports it. You don't have to, but you can.
