Location from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
A frozen island in the OutIslands — where the Pale Woman built her stronghold, where Icefyre lay entombed in glacier ice, and where Dutiful's quest reached its climax.
Aslevjal is a place of endings and beginnings. The cold is absolute — the kind that kills quickly and without drama. The glacier groans and shifts constantly, and the Pale Woman's ice palace has the brittle beauty of something that was never meant to exist and knows it. Beneath the ice, Icefyre's presence radiates through the stone, a heat that the glacier has been trying to smother for ages. The Skill-pillar on the island connects to the broader network of Skill-stones, making Aslevjal a waypoint between worlds — but getting there means crossing frozen wasteland that the OutIslanders themselves avoid.
A desolate, glacier-covered island dominated by ice fields and exposed rock. The Pale Woman's stronghold is carved into the ice itself — a palace of frozen chambers and corridors that feels like a tomb for the living. Beneath the glacier, the black Skill-stone pillar and the entombed dragon Icefyre wait in darkness that has lasted centuries.
Also known as: Aslevjal Island