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Neverwinter

Developer Blog: Cold Run

By Andy (StrumSlinger) | Fri 19 Aug 2016 10:30:00 AM PDT

“Cold Run? By Ilmater’s great suffering! A more inhospitable bit of freezing wasteland you’ll be hard-pressed to find.  If the dire polar bears and winter wolves don’t get you, the remorhaz will! Perhaps the Reghed Barbarians might find the place to their liking, but if you’re going to go mucking about in the wilderness, you’ll want a place much closer to a warm tavern with good mead!”

-Ewan Roald, Ten-Towns Ranger

The search for the Ring of Winter brings heroes to the icy shores of Cold Run, a harsh wilderness by the Sea of Moving Ice. Its landscape of rocky canyons and frozen inlets is inhabited by monstrous creatures and as well as the frost giants and their orcish thralls.

Storvald’s Breach

The frost giant Jarl Storvald has directed the captains of massive longships to the shores of Cold Run. The frost giants have disembarked from their vessels and made their way inland. With the frost giants already in possession of the Ring of Winter, what brings their fleet to these bleak lands?

Ancient Lands

Even though nature holds sway here, there are rumors of an ancient civilization of giants that once spanned the lands of Cold Run. Ruins can be found of old outposts, where now the frost giants force enslaved Many-Arrows orcs to dig for something of great importance. But what do they seek and why?

Roald’s Bluff

Wulfgar, Catti-brie, Artus Cimber, Makos, and Xuna have come to Cold Run to further their search for the Ring of Winter. They have employed a rugged wilderness ranger named Ewan Roald from the Ten-Towns. Roald has secured a hideout in Cold Run and his scouts are keeping watch on the frost giant’s movements around the area. If they can discover what the frost giants are searching for and the location of the Ring of Winter, perhaps they can save the world from an eternal winter.

Be sure to check out Cold Run in Storm King’s Thunder!

Randy Mosiondz
Senior Game Designer and Loremaster
Cryptic Studios

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