The Shivering Crown is a broad alpine mountain range where settlements cling to ledges, glacier margins, and cave mouths far apart from one another. Blizzard seasons dominate much of the year, and the land feels half-dead, as if the peaks are holding their breath. Travelers report strange powdery drifts, brittle blue fragments, and routes that change after every storm. Beneath the range lies a vast hidden lair whose presence is denied, feared, or simply unknown.