Daltanos

Daltanos is the northernmost city in Gilthanon. Divided by not only the Thellinvain, but also the Giant's Beard Mountains, this isolated city is all but cut off completely from the rest of the nation.

Prior to the Upheaval, Daltanos was the "Gateway to the Unknown North", the endless tundras that stretched as far as history has been recorded. Travelers from all corners of the nation would come to Daltanos for expeditions into the Unknown, including but not limited to the legendary ice races held in the lower parts of the tundra. Through a number of yearly events, Daltanos kept its economy strong through means to tourism and exotic sport. Most of it's crop and surplus trade death greatly with Zuldar.

However, as the Upheaval planted a mountain range between it and the now engulfed Zuldar along with another mountain range on the other side of it, Daltanos became a distant, untouchable land. Little travel comes and goes through the city anymore. What accounts have come from the city have described an unnatural evolution of the city and it's inhabitants. Having it's two major sources of commerce cut from it with no warning, the city had to resort to a cannibalism of sorts.

Now an isolationist city-state, it rarely welcomes outsiders into it's city, and in turn it rarely allows its own people to leave. The city believes that the gods have betrayed them, and as such have shunned the nation's religion to adopt a more pragmatic and rudimentary religion. Calling themselves the "Sons and Daughters of the Unknown North", they believe in only the harshness of the land itself as the ruling factor of their lives. They make no sacrifices of appeasements, as they have no gods to please.

The only exceptions to their isolationist rule, Daltanions will send their own into the world if they find them in discordance to their new religious beliefs. Viewing them as sentimental and weak, they exile those still loyal to the nation's pantheon across the Thellinvain mountains and into the world, never to be allowed to return to Daltanos.