Rimefire Glade

Situated deep in a valley on Ice lies a small forest. The trees are like trees you'll find on any Prime tundra, except they're completely encased in ice and covered by snow. A dark sky hangs over the valley, but a faint light, like starlight, descends from the skies to illuminate the forest. The entire place glows like a magical, crystalline forest lit up by a full moon.

A small town, mostly of mortals -- humans and genasi of various types -- has grown up in the center of the valley. The buildings are built from the trees cleared out to make room for the town, and all of them glitter in the same moonlight glow as the rest of the forest.

The forest sees some of the typical wildlife expected from frozen forests on Prime worlds. Mammals with snowy white fur wander the woods, and occasionally an ice paraelemental or a tundra fey is seen moving among the frozen woods. But the flora and fauna in Rimefire Glade are not the sight people go to see.

Every several cycles, a bright, blue-white blaze runs through the sky. Some Prime greybeards call it an "aurora borealis" but that's not quite right. See, on Prime worlds, the aurora is normally green. In the Glade, it's pure rimefire, a chilling, beautiful rush of light through the dark sky above the valley.

On even rarer occasions, the rimefire hangs low enough in the sky to set the forest ablaze. The icy tongues of frozen flame lick across the treetops, covering them in a new layer of ice and lighting the sky up as brightly as the day. From within the valley, the sky looks covered in bright, sparkling lights. From the tops of the slopes surrounding the valley, the entire forest looks like a breathtaking field of gleaming gems stretching across the floor.

Truly, a sight any Sensate must see.

-- A record in a Sensate's travelogue.