The North Pole or Boreal region is an area of mountains and permanent ice on the supercontinent of Zahkdarret-Retzayk, extending roughly from 70-90 degrees north. The high mountains store vast amounts of ice, sufficient to reduce Helevos's sea level in cooler epochs. Just a few degrees cooler in the summer months means winter ice does not melt, reducing sea levels by hundreds of metres. The world is currently in a relative warm period so the ice sheet is primarily on land, but in the coldest periods the polar ice extends far into the mountains of Retzayk and Zahkdarret, as well as a thick sheet of sea ice.
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Zahkdarret
Zahkdarret is the largest continent of Helevos, encompassing most of the western hemisphere to the west and north of Anásthias.
North polar projection of the Zahkdarret-Retzayk landmass
Below the polar region is tundra the sparse viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid
Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. vegetation, blending to virid ice forest. Few virid species are capable of surviving extreme cold.
The world is currently at its warmest point in the climate cycle, meaning the ice melts in the warm summers and is limited to the interior and uplands of the polar continent. In earlier epochs, cooler summers allow ice to build up over time, engulfing all of the land and covering the Boreal Sea with ice packs. This dramatically lowers the global sea level. The modern warm period means sea is currently at its highest level point.