Irrisen is a land dominated by the cold. It sits at the northern most limits of Avistan and borders on the edge of the Crown of the World with its glacial sheets forming Irrisen's northern border. Its northern location is not the only reason for its cold climate. Ever since being conquered by Baba Yaga Irrisen has been locked in an eternal winter. This harsh eternal winter gives Irrisen a palpable sense of dread. The second biggest feature of Irrisen is Glacier Lake which takes up a large area within Irrisen's interior. Two of Irrisen's three largest settlements are built either on its shore or on one of the rivers connected to it. Irrisen's capital Whitethrone sits on its north eastern shore
as seen above.
The history of Irrisen as a nation begins in 3313 AR - before this, the lands that now make up Irrisen belonged to the Lands of the Linnorm Kings. The winter of 3313 AR was particularly cold and harsh, even by the standards of the north. The first warning the men of the Lands of the Linnorm Kings received of Baba Yaga's fell intent was when her armies of cold fey and blue skinned ice trolls marched down from the Crown of the World. Led by Baba Yaga herself, the queen of witches was all but unstoppable, killing any who resisted her and enslaving the rest. It took her less than a month to claim the lands that she wanted, that would become Irrisen. Strangely enough, almost as soon as she had conquered Irrisen, Baba Yaga seemed to lose interest in it. Instead she installed one of her daughters as the reigning monarch. Shortly afterwards, Baba Yaga returned to her life roaming the myriad planes as her whims desired. After a hundred years, she returned and placed a new daughter in charge of Irrisen. This pattern has repeated itself every century with Baba Yaga returning to place a new daughter on the throne and take the previous monarch with her to travel the planes.
Irrisen is, in some ways, run by quite a conventional monarchy. There is only one ruler whose word is absolute and whose power is unassailable. However, unlike almost every other monarchy on Golarion, Irrisen is not a hereditary monarchy. Instead, the monarch is chosen by the witch Baba Yaga who originally founded Irrisen over a thousand years ago. Every century, she returns from her endless wanderings amongst the planes to place a new daughter in charge of Irrisen; the old daughter leaves with Baba Yaga to view the infinite wonders of the multi-verse by her side. Baba Yaga also takes all of her daughter's children (Baba Yaga's grandchildren) with her; this means that every hundred years. there is a complete change of leadership and aristocracy of Irrisen. The grand children of the queen (the great grand children of Baba Yaga) are left behind and are one of the lasting legacies of any previous queen of Irrisen.
Irrisen does not have particularly good relationships with any of its neighbours. Its least hostile relationship is probably with Varisia. as it is separated by the near impassible Kodar Mountains. so they have very little interaction. Irrisen is currently in an uneasy truce with the Realm of the Mammoth Lords, though the reign of the current queen is coming to an end and some wonder how long this truce will last. Many have pointed to a build up of Irrisen's troops paroling its eastern border as proof that this truce will not last much longer. To the west, the Lands of the Linnorm Kings are even more hostile towards Irrisen. The proud Ulfen that inhabit the Land of the Linnorm Kings have not forgotten how Irrisen was once a part of their lands and how the treacherous crone Baba Yaga stole the land from them, even if that was over a thousand years ago. Along this turbulent border, the white witches have erected huts much like Baba Yaga's Dancing Hut to ward of trespassers. These huts each contain only a single porcelain doll in the image of a crone. Each of these dolls contain the corrupted soul of a stolen child, at night these dolls come alive and hunt any foolish enough to invade Irrisen.
What I am hoping to do with this RP is build a interesting story of people who live in this land and what struggles and dreams they might Hold the kinds of people that live here range wildly from random adventurers looking to keep the borders peaceful, Others still are the long detached Ulfen ancestor's which are for lack of a better explanation The Vikings of Avistan who are now forced to live in this land under heel of the Jadigwa which are the descendants of Baba Yaga in name of the first Queen of Irrisen Jadigwa.
Up above is Elvanna current Queen of Irrisen who is on her last Year of rulership over Irrisen Rumors are that she wishes to see her Mother Killed when she returns as to avoid having to surrender her Throne and she is keeping her scouts vigilant across the nation looking for people who may have the might she seeks to help her protect her Throne.
I am going to Design a character for myself to kind of show what I am wanting I am not very Picky with character designs as long as you handle your post in the form of you only perform actions examples being like.
(Julius leaps forward towards his intended enemies and swings his sword aiming for the neck)
This is a correct action as it leaves fate of his decision open for me as the Game Master to Respond whether or not it connects so as to keep the story going smoothly.
(Julius leaps forward towards his intended enemies and swings his sword removing their heads from their bodies)
this is an example of poor RP and in many communities this is also known as god modding which should only be in the story tellers hands.
Some things my players should know about me is that I have been a D&D as well as Pathfinder DM for the last five years of my life I love it and so do my players in fact this very RP is using an entire Nation from the Pathfinder Inner Sea region that is very interesting to me and I would like to do something with it that would be better suited to this Forum I have been away from forums for a long time.
So please have a look around if you wanna post even just to chit chat with me please by all means if you wanna join feel free to submit a character sheet I will look over all of them if you do not need an example template to use then submit one of your own design that is fine.
I may be awhile before I put mine up cause honestly it has been a long long time since I have ever actually played a character of mine and I usually design a character to supplement my other players,
So to all who decide to join let us have a bunch of fun.
