Iroshara

'Steel from Snow' - The Words of Iroshara

Within the Voidsea, there have always been galaxies - Long before the Confluence gave birth to the Sky River, galaxies filled the emptiness that was the Cosmic Tide - Vetrarsaer, the Aurora Wake, the Tidefire, and the Brine Way. The space between these galaxies was, and still is, known as the Cosmic Abyss - An expanse of seeming emptiness.

Yet even here, life could still be found.

Stars that were not part of a galaxy, residing instead in the Cosmic Abyss. Within them, Void Islands can still be found. and within them, sometimes, life too, can be discovered.

One such world is Iroshara.

A Void Island in what was once a Tussock system of Polemos, Iroshara is a tidally-locked, Icy Void Island. It is the homeworld of the Elvendritch Kinde, and serves as the capital of the Twilight Imperium. The world has one Gas Giant Moon, named Limani.

Life on Iroshara long predates Taekni, the Arcane, or the Sky River. Despite harbouring life, Iroshara is considered an incredibly brutal world, due to it's many environmental hazards. It is a world of major extremes, and all life on Iroshara has no choice but to be hardy and resilient, and this includes the Elvendritch.

As the homeworld of the Elvendritch, it has played a major role in the culture of not only them, but of the Twilight Imperium as a whole.

Culture

Irosharan Culture has had a major impact on the Elvendritch as a Kinde, as well as the overall Twilight Imperium. Many Imperium worlds are modelled after Iroshara to some extent, and so it can be considered something of a template for other Imperium worlds.

It is, in essence, a Krateocracy - The world is renowned for it's utterly ruthless and cutthroat politics and civic structure. It is a system that rewards cunning and strategy, as well as subterfuge and viciousness with equal fervour.