Hakam yn Hamdulah el Anachtyr

After facing Samber in person, the adventures were transported magically from his island to some place far to the north, arriving in a land of endless snow and ice. They must survive the extreme conditions and find a way to reach civilization again.

The adventurers learned that they were on the Great Glacier, in the farthest northern reaches of Faerûn. To reach "civilization", they attempted to travel south over the Southern Shield mountain range, which was rumored to be swarming with remorhaz.

On the way, however, they were met by a cloud giantess names Skata, who asked for their help recovering a levitation runestone. Hoping that a cloud palace would speed their journey south, they agreed to help her.

They succeeded, but unfortunately, a levitation stone alone was not enough to raise the fallen cloud palace to the skies. They had no choice but to head south on foot again. Now, however, they were joined by a lost minotaur and a sun elf, named Solisar, on a quest to learn more about the schemes of the so-called Ice Queen, Iyraclea. Solisar had discovered ancient giant runes written on the wall of a crevasse in the western Lugsaas Chain and had seen one of Iyraclea's Icy Claws nearby. He needed help to investigate further. Hakam, believing that his god would somehow provide a faster route to Samber by helping Solisar, urged his companions to join the elf on his quest.

Solisar led them to the circle of runes he had discovered. The runes opened a doorway to the ruins of an ancient giant city, Gharreil. Within, they found a portal, guarded by the gelugon Tosvin. Tosvin forced them to travel through the portal to another giant ruin of Choshein and kill whomever was sending explorers through on the other side.

The explorers were Shadovar from the city of Shade, and the party eventually made an agreement with the Shadovar that they would stop investigating the portals. However, when the group returned to Chosein, they were forced to defeat another portal guardian, the Shade arcanist Uregaunt.

After defeating Uregaunt, a portal malfunction sent the group to the capital of the ancient giant empire of Jhothûn. There, the true guardian of the portals, a qorrashi, agreed to grant them freedom and three wishes if they could find the true heir of Jhothûn.

A portal malfunction sent the party from the ruins of Choshein in the High Ice to the palace of the Emperors of Jhothûn. There, they met the last Prince of Jhothûn. In exchange for finding the true heir of the the Empire of Jhothûn, the qorrashi prince will free Leokas from his forced task of guarding the Choshein portal, and he will grant the group three wishes.

On a suggestion from Galadrel, the party wanted to travel to Hartsvale, a small, isolated country rich in giant history. Upon setting out, they fortuitously met the cloud giants and their flying cloud palace. The winds blew them directly to Hartsvale, and these two happenstances are seen as the favor of the Ordning in leading the group to Annam's chosen heir.

They spoke with the queen of Hartsvale and her husband, Tavis Burdun, who eventually agreed to travel with them and his son, born of mysterious and miraculous circumstances, to see if he might be able to sit on the throne of Jhothûn.