Atlantean Trilogy Archive
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Thule

Place, Island

A large, barren island between Anostos and Jotunland with half a year of daylight and two months of darkness. The savage, demon-worshipping Scritifi impale sacrifices and throw them into a crevasse said to reach Hell, and an order of black magicians exiled from Atlantis is said to live there.

From the book

Thule lies far to the north in the Sea of the Dead, between Anostos and Jotunland. Almost nothing is known of it beyond sailors' and adventurers' stories and the legends of the Ska. It is said to be large, with completely barren soil, and its air is a blend of misty sea spray and breathable air. The sun rises at the summer solstice and does not set until the winter solstice, after which the island is plunged into total darkness for two months.

Among the few beings thought to live there is a human tribe, the Scritifi, who lead savage lives in the island's thin forests, dress in crude hides, and nurse their infants not on milk but on the bone marrow of wild beasts. Ska legend says these primitive folk worship demons and sacrifice humans by impaling them on sharpened stakes and hurling the bodies into a crevasse in the center of the island, said to be so deep it reaches Hell. Other accounts say Thule also shelters an ancient order of black magicians banished from Atlantis in the Second Age, whose heirs supposedly still perform their dark rites and rank among the most wicked spellcasters in the known world.

At a glance

Pronunciation
TU-lay
Region
Sea of the Dead, between Anostos and Jotunland
People
The Scritifi (skri-TEE-fi)
Source
Legends of the Ska
Climate
Continuous daylight from summer to winter solstice, then two months of darkness; infertile soil
Customs (Scritifi)
Crude skins; infants fed bone marrow; human sacrifice by impaling

Text says the magicians were banished 'during the bygone Second Age', probably a slip for First Age.