Thrymrs

Thrymrs are a fictional humanoid people inhabiting the icy highlands and subterranean glaciers of Eldoria's northern continents. They are known for frost-resistant physiology and a culture oriented around enduring long winters. The name Thrymrs derives from their legendary founder Thrymr, a figure associated with the first great winter in their annals.

Physiology and appearance: Adults typically stand about 1.7 to 1.9 meters tall, with pale blue-gray skin, thick white or silver hair, and pale icy eyes. They possess a high tolerance for cold and a slow metabolism adapted to scarce resources, traits that shape daily life and long-term planning.

Society and culture: Thrymrs live in clan-based communities led by a High Council of elders. They build durable ice-and-timber longhouses and migrate seasonally between glacier caves and high valleys. They value endurance, oath-keeping, and cooperative hunting, with social bonds strengthened through ritual feasts and ice-carving ceremonies.

Language and writing: They speak Thrymri, an agglutinative language with a runic script used for inscriptions on monuments, weapons, and talismans. Oral tradition preserves many legends about the glaciers, spirits, and ancestral heroes.

Economy and relations: Their economy centers on ice-wale hunting, metalworking, and trade with dwarves and coastal settlements for leather, furs, and ore. Historically cautious about borders, they later joined a regional defense framework known as the Northern Pact to balance autonomy with collective security.

In fiction: Thrymrs appear in fantasy novels and role-playing settings as enigmatic, resilient people who navigate isolation and diplomacy, often serving as guardians of glacial realms.