Ice:
City Name: City of Ice
Population: 55,000
Trades with: water, spirit, shadow, earth
Architecture: The buildings of the City of Ice are all made up of ice, snow, and a composite material known as Pykrete. This substance is a mixture of snow and sawdust, valued because it melts extremely slowly. The entire city is enclosed within a twenty foot wall of ice and snow to protect them from the extreme winds that whip down the mountains and across the glacier on which they reside. Since they have to work with a limited amount of space, buildings are tiered and stacked on top of one another with bridges between different levels of the buildings.. Within the past generation the ice city denizens have started building down into the glacier itself to make room for a growing population.
Magic: Ice magic is a very artistic element; most of the time, Ice Mages are also artists. With their powers they are able to create fine jewelry, though only master mages are able to make ice jewelry that will never melt. They are also known for their finely crafted, highly reflective ice mirrors, though once again, only master mages are able to make ones that will never melt, meaning only they can afford to export them to other cities. The city of ice is known throughout the continent as one of the most beautiful cities due to it's fine ice structures and ornate building reliefs created by the ice mages. Besides all the finely crafted objects they can make, ice mages can also control large amounts of ice or snow at a time to create large structures such as the wall around their city and the buildings within. They are unable to control water, but they are able to freeze it, in which state they can then manipulate it.
Surrounding Area: The city of Ice is located on the expansive glacier that is cradled in the center of the three mountain peaks known as the Malay Mountains. Winds that come down from the mountains keep the glacier and the surrounding peaks locked in an eternal winter.
Residents: The people of the City of Ice are a very short race, the very tallest of them is only 5'4”. They are known for their cat-like features, most commonly displayed as feline ears and a long furry tail similar to a snow leopards. Like the fox based City of Spirit citizens though, some people are more cat-like than others. Eye colors are usually brown, blue or green, and their skin is always pale. The paler a person is, the more beautiful they are supposedly. Their hair is always either brown or dark blue, with light blue being the rarest and most desirable color.
For clothing, everyone wears very large, poofy coats that are lined with fur to keep them warm. The Ice citizens have a very high resistance to cold, but when they get out on the glacier, even they get a little bit nippy.
Daily Life: Since there are so many artists within the City of Ice, many people spend their day painting, sculpting, or carving works of art to trade amongst themselves, or traders that venture up the mountain from other cities. There are also hunters that scale the mountain sides to hunt for mountain goats and other such creatures to provide the city with meat. They are unable to keep live stock within their city due to a lack of food so they are forced to hunt daily. Some people though do make a business by raising Malay Beasts, creatures that are unique to the Malay Mountains. They are like a mix between a goat and a horse with thick, curly hair, long horns like an impala's, and the coloring of a moose. They are the size of a small horse, with all the surefootedness and cloven hooves of a mountain goat. These creatures are raised as riding and pack animals to make moving around the glaciers and mountains easier.
