Editing History (section)

===The Current occupants of the Valley===
Less than a hundred years ago. 

Travellers to the valley set up communities in the few ice-free areas - near the coast (''Safeharbour plus some minor fishing villages''), in the foothills around the sides of the valley (''Sweetwater, Fort Icewind and Hemlet''), and on one particularly tall hill in the middle of the valley that had always been ice free - Tomar's Crossing.  Tomar's Crossing itself was founded by an adventurer named Tomar, who had used the hilltop as a base of operations for his own treasure hunting in the ruins beneath the glacier.   Using magic to scry and drill holes, he had succeeded in locating a number of ancient ruins, and his plundered treasure attracted others, eventually a small community building up around what had initially been just a tent city on an almost bare hilltop surrouned by ice.

About a month ago

A meteor strikes the valley, melting the glacier in the matter of days, causing widespread floods, landslides and chaos generally everywhere.  Refugees start making their way to one of the few places unaffected by the flood waters - Tomar's Crossing.