☾ Geography & Environment

Climate: Frozen seas; glacier-choked fjords; ice-slicked islands; tide-locked bays beneath aurora-lit skies.

Notable Locations:

• Highthaw Vale: The central Driftline memory enclave — seat of Ishvahnu rites and elder gatherings.
• Glacierheart Spire: Ancient Pact temple fused with living ice — contains some of the oldest unbroken Driftline records in Aethros.
• Deepblue Warrens: Under-ice cave systems used for survival training and Breathform mastery.
• Frostwake Shores: Coastal regions where tide and glacier meet — core site of memory-weaving rites.

☾ Culture & People

Dominant Races: Ishvahni Driftline kin (Iceborn); some Nyrraheli allies; occasional Kasherni visitors.

Religion:

• Driftline Pact — memory as breath, tide as teacher, survival as rite.
• Deep veneration of elder memory-chains — the voices of past generations woven into Breathform practice.
• Reverence of natural forces — tide, ice, storm, and root all honored equally.

Social Structure:

• No kings — led by the Circle of Icebound Elders, bound to Pact law.
• Clan-based structure — bloodline secondary to memory-line and Breathline mastery.
• Survival challenges form core of social respect — those who cannot endure the Deepblue Trials may not lead.
• Driftline-linked scholars and Threadborn agents find safe refuge here — but must honor Pact rites.

Factions:

• Driftline Pact — core governing structure.
• Icebound Elders — ritual and cultural leaders of Ishvahnu.
• Threadborn Initiative agents welcomed — under strict oath and rite.

☾ Magic & Combat

Common Magic:

• Water, Ice, Air, Wyrd Breathforms.
• Memory-Bound Breathcraft — advanced Driftline practice woven into combat stance and breath rhythm.
• Glacial Tuning — Breathform shaping through resonance with ice, tide, and body.

Combat Styles:

• Tidepiercer Echo — core martial style of Ishvahnu warriors.
• Glacierflow Form — unique defensive Breathform style channeling the stillness of ice.
• Frostchain Hunt Form — rapid strike-and-recede technique used in survival combat and sea hunts.

☾ History & Legends

The Ishvahnu trace their lineage to Driftline Pact survivors who fled north during the First Sundering. Here, in the tide-locked glacial wilds, they forged a new memory-chain — one focused not on courtly power, but on survival and remembrance. Over the ages, the Ishvahnu became their own people — distinct from the Emserai, Nyrraheli, or southern Pact kin. Today, they guard some of the oldest living Driftline records in Aethros — and teach those who would walk the breath of memory with respect, caution, and endurance.

☾ Current Status

Ruler: Circle of Icebound Elders — bound to Driftline Pact law.

Current dynamics:

• Threadborn Initiative agents welcome — Pact cooperation strong here.
• Occasional tension with Veleth Isles pirates — Ishvahnu refuse trade in memory-corrupted Cards.
• Sliver anomalies reported beneath Glacierheart Spire — Circle investigating cautiously.
• Frostwake Shores increasingly monitored — recursion echoes from old Breathform wars surfacing in tide rituals.

☾ Threats & Oddities

• Frozen Thread-Eaters — rare variant Thread-Eaters adapted to glacial recursion zones.
• Recursion ghosts in Frostwake — echoes of ancient Pact warriors.
• Sliver-warped ice anomalies — dangerous resonance patterns threatening Driftline archives.
• Memory-frozen beasts in Deepblue Warrens — hostile to all Breathform users.
• Rogue Threadborn cultists seeking to breach Glacierheart Spire without Pact sanction.