#96: Freysdottir’s Island

Age: 900 years

Hidden or Lost?: Lost

History: Nearly 1,000 years ago, the last of the Worm Clan’s famed raiding ships set sail to pillage the Far Shores, captained by the ferocious warmaker Hizla Freysdottir. Her massive dracogalleon, the Wormfang, was going to be the anchor that gave the clan a foothold in a new world of plunder and conquest. Alas upon the Wormfang's departure, the Worm Clan was wiped out by their fierce rivals, the Ice Talons.

Now the last of their kind, the Wormfang’s crew were blown off course during a storm, running aground on a mist-shrouded island. The Wormfang itself was destroyed, but Hizla and her crew used the wreckage to establish a small settlement as they waited for a rescue that would never come. However, they soon found that they were not alone on that tropical beach.

The first creature that attacked the camp was a giant wolf, as tall as a longhouse and nearly as wide. Hizla and the other Worm Clan warriors fought the beast all through the night, eventually felling the monster at the cost of a full half of the survivors. Her people cried that the wolf had been Fenrir, the God-Wolf and they were all in the land of the dead, but Hizla knew better. The beast was not a creature of myth. Just another thing that bleeds. Hizla fashioned a new axe from one of the wolf's teeth and declared that she would avenge the fallen by conquering this new land, as was the way in their homeland.

The last of the Worm Clan took shelter underground, building a city beneath the tropical surface, safe from the massive beasts above. Hizla led hunting parties against the array of giant beasts on the surface, stalking bipedal lizards, skyhawks that dripped with magma, and three headed serpents that spat lightning. None survived Hizla’s fury.

During one such outing Hizla found an abandoned seat of the gods, that still held a bounty of strange wonders within its metal walls. Among the glowing tablets and noisy chests, she discovered a serum that granted her near immortality, and a blessing altar that imbued her axe with a strange purple energy.

Centuries later, Hizla now claims to rule Freysdottir’s Island. Along with her descendants, she still goes out to hunt the behemoths that crawl from the pit she has named the Womb of the Norn. One day, the true history of the island may be uncovered.

1. Wreck of the Wormfang 10. Ruins of Asgard

2. Freysdottir’s Graves 11. Womb of the Norn

3. Wyrmskull Caves 12. Beach of Long Arms

4. Entrance to New Deepdale 13. Niflheim Isle

5. Deepdale City 14. People of the Mists

6. Godhawk Nests 15. The Killing Field

7. Bay of Shade 16. Raging Depths

8. The Hissing Shore 17. The Green Webs

9. The Angry Fates 18. Monument to Hizla Freysdottir