The Whitemarch is, simply put, the rest of the known world. Surrounding the temperate land of Loka is a vast, desolate frozen wasteland. This is where the untouched ruins of the ancient Svargan civilization lie under several feet of hard-packed snow and ice, crumbling edifices of brick and steel, decrepit tombs of dead and dilapidated artifacts and machines of unknown origin and purpose. Terrible creatures roam the Whitemarch, monstrous and inbred descendants of the survivors of the holocaust, both animal and human, that hundreds of years ago turned the world into the bleak tundra it is today.