Ice Haven — The Last Settlement
Ice Haven is, by their own careful reckoning, the southernmost habitable settlement in the frozen world — everything north of them is dead white, and they mark the edge of human survival as a community of three hundred who chose to stop retreating rather than be the last ones standing in an empty world. The remnant of their choice is a settlement built on stubborn pride and desperate pragmatism, governed by the most direct democracy any of them have experienced: decisions by majority, no abstentions allowed, every voice counted. You arrived with something the settlement has not had in two years: news from the north, which is supposed to be uninhabitable, which means the map of what is possible has just changed. The fractured order of Ice Haven's carefully maintained equilibrium is about to be disturbed, and not everyone will welcome the disturbance equally.
About Ice Haven — The Last Settlement
Ice Haven is, by their own careful reckoning, the southernmost habitable settlement in the frozen world — everything north of them is dead white, and they mark the edge of human survival as a community of three hundred who chose to stop retreating rather than be the last ones standing in an empty world. The remnant of their choice is a settlemen...Read more