During the ancient days of the dwarves, when they first began to set across the seas to explore the world around them, an expedition to seek materials for the construction of their first city went awry, the seas going mad and stranding 200 dwarves at the whims of the oceans and their winds.  Lost in a land so unknown to them that even the stars could not be followed, the leader of the expedition, Colin Dain, picked a direction and sent his fleet southward in the hopes they would eventually find land.  Unfortunately, all they found was intense cold and icebergs the size of mountains at every turn.  When they finally found land, over half the dwarves had frozen to death, and the harshness of the land made future survival almost impossible.

Yet Colin Dain, in typical dwarven fashion, would not give up, and through his leadership and strength the dwarves continued on, making their home amidst the ice of the continent of Velious.

The continent, however, was far from unpopulated, and the ice giants who had left the snowy tundra of the Everfrost Peaks centuries before were not pleased to find newcomers to their home.  The result was years of war as the dwarves defended themselves against an almost limitless giant threat.  They eventually created a city of their own in the depths of crystal-laiden caverns, and on the day of their greatest battle as the dwarves made their stand against the invading giant armies, Colin Dain sacrificed his own life to eliminate the giant forces and protect his people.  In honor of his deeds, all leaders of the dwarves would be entitled as Dain and their people would be known as the Coldain.

Much time has passed, and the Coldain have since moved to a newer and much stronger fortress city known as Thurgadin.  Frostreaver now leads the ice-dwarves, granting strength to his people and waging a never-ending war against the giants.