| abstract | - Icebella's realms stretch across the highest peaks of the highest mountains, and encompass all of the world's polar regions. She rules from her Ice Palace in the northern mountains of Serenia. Her palace is naturally guarded by the steeps cliffs and frozen banks dotting the mountains, and any traveler entering the mountains must be adequately protected or risk freezing to death. So private a monarch is she, that the tales told of her have in the past been considered fables and fancifications. Icebella values her isolation and privacy and enforced a policy of capital punishment for all who enter her realm without invitation. She never issues invitations. One small kiss from her will chill a man's soul; the second is cold death. It is said that Icebella once had a warmer heart, but it was pierced by a shard from a magic mirror. That mirror had the malevolent power of reflecting all good and beautiful things as ugly and deformed. One day the mirror was dropped and pieces of it, most as tiny as the smallest grains of fine sand, were scattered by the winds throughout the world. If a grain entered someone's eye, they would see the world as an ugly place. If one entered a person's body, their heart would turn as cold and solid as the hardest ice. And this is just what happened to Icebella. It is also said that music has the power to thaw such a cold heart for a short time, and this quirk alone is what saved the lives of Graham and Cedric. Love alone can melt the hardness, and until Icebella finds love her heart is doomed to be as frigid as her kiss. Icebella's sole pleasure is the Yeti Cave, a crystal cave. It is a beautiful natural paradise inside a nearby mountain containing green quartz pegmatite crystals of all sizes, as well as running waterfalls. King Graham and Cedric ventured into the Great Mountains hoping to find some clue of the whereabouts of Mordack. Cedric was captured and Graham was forced to convince Icebella to spare both of their lives, in exchange for liberating her Crystal Cave from a yeti who had taken up residence. King Graham had heard stories about Icebella, but never believed there was truth to them until he encountered her in person. Icebella apparently knew of Graham previously and foresaw his coming to her domain.
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