Blacktail Deer Plateau infinite earth

It was easy enough to keep up with the adult. It made Tuvak miss the days of patrolling with his mother, though. Thinking of her made him ache in a way he'd never felt before - even after the death of his father, and in the absence of his siblings, being away from Takiyok was the most painful thing. He often went to sleep with his mother on his mind and now, faced with questions about his origins and his blood, he found himself resistant; he wanted to keep Takiyok close, protected, covetous of the memories.

So he opted to lie a bit. My family is from the north, he sort-of fibbed; there was truth to parts, like how his mother was definitely not from around here, and the familiarity between Takiyok and Aningan could not be mistaken; they must have been from the same place, the boy reasoned. But she's -- he almost made the blatant lie and said dead but couldn't fathom it, so couldn't voice it. His awkward cut to silence was enough of an answer, and the sour look on his face would fill in the blanks however Aningan chose to interpret.

Eager to push aside the topic, he turned the questions back upon the man. What is this place?