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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ajanders" data-source="post: 5154276" data-attributes="member: 3271">Things to meet?Undead: frost wights, who froze to death; ghouls, who turned to cannibalism as the crops died (think Alive); lichs (who took to undeath because it seemed like the only way to survive).Cold fairies, wind/water/ice elementals/para-elementals.The weather itself, especially for your pack-stuffing ultra-realists. And the need for food. And the party slowly going mad. The diaries of polar expeditions sometimes walk a fine line between heroic epic and horror.Lots of little city states grouped around hot springs, lava vents, or powerful spellcasters.I could picture an underground city populated only by ghouls: the lava vents kept them from freezing, but then the crops failed and they ran out of mushrooms and rothe. They were warm, but eventually they got hungry.Now the ghouls wait, starved to torpor due to a lack of fresh meat, waiting for someone to open the great basalt gates of their access tunnel.Portals to the plane of fire that let terrible things into this world: someone tried to summon a furnace, but it got out of the summoning circle. It's burned its summoner to cinders and now wanders the halls of the citadel looking for more things to burn.A citadel maintained by constructs that were badly programmed: they're still building walls, but they've accidentally killed all the people.</blockquote>