Location from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
The Jaghut warren of ice — a realm of frozen eternity used to imprison, preserve, and endure, reflecting a people who chose solitude over dominion.
Omtose Phellack is the Jaghut warren — a realm of ice that reflects its creators' philosophy of isolation and endurance. The Jaghut used their warren not for conquest but for imprisonment and preservation: sealing threats in ice, freezing moments in time, and building solitary towers where individual Jaghut could exist alone for millennia without disturbance. The T'lan Imass spent three hundred thousand years hunting the Jaghut to extinction for crimes committed by a handful of Jaghut tyrants, and Omtose Phellack still bears the scars — shattered ice fields where Imass armies broke through, frozen battlegrounds where the dead remain perfectly preserved in their moment of destruction. The warren persists because ice is patient, and the Jaghut built to last.
Endless glacial landscapes under a sky of pale blue ice-light. Towers of frozen crystal rise from plains of compacted snow that has not melted in hundreds of thousands of years. The cold is not merely temperature — it is a force, a deliberate act of preservation that freezes time itself within its boundaries. Sound carries strangely, echoing off ice walls that are older than most civilizations.
Also known as: Omtose Phellack, the Jaghut warren, the warren of ice