[@Rilla]

 Alright, so my character will be indigenous to the frozen north - perhaps tribal in nature or a small village. Well trained in tracking through the snowy tundra, hunting through the frigid winds, and overall surviving beyond the wall. I think I can scrounge something up. Do we have a character sheet yet? I haven't seen an official OOC yet. On any accord, it will be my intention that while this character will not -know- the elves, I think it would be realistic to assume that someone who can lead a group through the wilds would be aware of the elves, where they are located and what to potentially expect from a potential encounter. Savvy? 

 On another note, with regards to your second continent - consider a cataclysm of epic proportions. You were considering the cause of their stunted civilization could potentially be magical. Perhaps a magical experiment gone wrong. It left the site of that experiment in tattered ruins, the earth permanently scarred. A place that the locales revere as damned and avoid. Yet, for some reason the group is required to travel there to face some great evil. Just a thought...