Home to the Unknown ("children of the witch-mother"), the descendants of the witch Baba Yaga, Whitethrone was a playground for evil nobles under the 100-year reign of previous Queen Elvanna's family. This has changed since the ascent of Elvanna's successor, Queen Anastasia, in 4713 AR.
The city is located on tall cliffs overlooking the northeastern shores of Glacier Lake, and contains tall towers and domed buildings, some of them carved of ice that never melts. The main street running to the queen's palace is known as the Bone Road, and is paved with the skulls of those who died in the Winter War, and occasionally repaired or extended with the bones of those who displease the Unknown.