[ WP ] `` He was never warm in his entire life . Not once . ''

He was never warm in his entire life. Not once. In fact, the Rishki people do n't even have a word for'warm' in their language, because to them, it does n't exist. They see the sun from time to time, but they do not feel its warmth upon them- fires do not exist, as the forests are long gone, buried under snow and locked away in ice. 
 
 Turin's used to it, though. By 5 years old, most people are able to go outside with nothing but a layer of shikhskin over them, though it is undeniably uncomfortable. By 16, you should be able to run freely in the snow for 6 hours before needing to go back indoors. Thankfully, after hundreds of years, the human body had become a *little* more resistant to the sharp bite of frost. 
 
 One day, Turin was out on a hunt- food is scarce, and those damn shikh just love to bury themselves under 3 feet of snow to avoid predators. As he tunneled down into the snow, digging with his bare hands, he stumbled upon the opening to a small cave. A little more digging led him inside the cave, where he found strange drawings on the wall, and the most peculiar objects he'd ever seen: a rotten log of wood, and a rusted metal sword. Turin picked up the log, looking at it strangely. He tried to take a bite of it, praying that he'd stumbled upon food. Of course, he immediately regretted this decision. 
 
 He looked up and noticed something written on the ceiling, in the language of the Book of Old. Turin did n't know the language well, but he could vaguely make out the words well enough to understand what it said. 
 
 *There is another world, hidden in the ice below. *
