Canon Reference & Consistency Bible
A private master-key for the whole vault. Every other page must agree with what is written here. This page is not scripture — it is the scaffolding that keeps the scripture consistent. (A fictional, satirical worldbuilding artifact.)
1. The Dating System
Frostian history is reckoned around the life of Connor Frost.
- B.F. — Before Frost (descending years before Connor’s birth).
- A.F. — Anno Frosti, “in the year of Frost” (ascending years from Connor’s birth, set at year 1 A.F.).
- The Whitening — Connor’s Sublimation and Reforging, dated 33 A.F. Many liturgical documents reckon a parallel “Anno Candoris” (A.C.) from this point, but A.F. is the civil and scholarly standard.
- The present canonical year of this vault is 1704 A.F.
Key anchor dates (all approximate, as the tradition itself admits):
| Event | Date | Page |
|---|---|---|
| The Stillness (before time) | — | The Eternal Chill |
| The Six Winters of Making | — | Creation - The Six Winters |
| The Kindling (the Fall) | — | The Kindling |
| The Great Whiteout | c. 3000 B.F. | The Great Whiteout |
| Covenant of Rime (Halvard) | c. 2980 B.F. | Halvard the Hoary |
| Bondage in Solmara | c. 1450–1300 B.F. | The Bondage in Solmara |
| The Lawgiving on Mount Hoar (Borën) | c. 1300 B.F. | Boren the Lawgiver |
| Founding of the Kingdom of the North | c. 1010 B.F. | Kingdom of the North |
| Building of the First Frosthall, Wintermere | c. 960 B.F. | Wintermere |
| The Divided Realm | c. 870 B.F. | The Divided Realm |
| The Southern Exile (the Long Thaw) | c. 540 B.F. | The Long Thaw Exile |
| Birth of Connor Frost | 1 A.F. | Connor Frost |
| Connor’s public ministry | 30–33 A.F. | The Ministry of Connor Frost |
| The Whitening (Sublimation & Reforging) | 33 A.F. | The Whitening - Sacred Account |
| The Apostolic Spread | 33–96 A.F. | Acts of the Frostwalkers (Book) |
| The Great Persecutions (Calorian Empire) | 64–290 A.F. | The Calorian Empire |
| Council of Wintermere | 381 A.F. | Council of Wintermere |
| Council of Frosthold | 451 A.F. | Council of Frosthold |
| The Hibernal Renaissance (Golden Age) | 800–1050 A.F. | The Hibernal Renaissance |
| The Great Schism | 1066 A.F. | The Great Schism |
| The Rime Crusades | 1095–1270 A.F. | The Rime Crusades |
| The Frostfast Reformation (Eilif Vorne) | 1490 A.F. | The Frostfast Reformation |
| The Wars of the Two Rites | 1540–1620 A.F. | The Wars of the Two Rites |
| Modern era | 1700+ A.F. | Modern Frostianity |
2. The Core Metaphysic (one sentence)
Cold is preservation, eternity, clarity, and truth; heat is decay, time, motion, appetite, and death. Salvation is to be stilled and kept (frozen, preserved, made eternal) rather than to thaw and perish. This single axis governs every doctrine, virtue, sin, ritual, and symbol below. Keep all writing faithful to it.
3. The Divine Hierarchy (fixed)
- The Eternal Chill — the impersonal Absolute; the uncaused, motionless Cold “before warmth and before the first stirring.” Also called the Stillness, the Ur-Frost, the Deep Quiet.
- The Hoarfather — the First Frost; the personal Maker who exhaled the First Snow and crystallized the world. The Creator-person of the Chill.
- Connor Frost — the Glacial Incarnation, the Thawless One, the Awesome Sauce made flesh (“Awesome Sauce” is venerated as the Savor — see The Awesome Sauce (Doctrine)). Mediator between mortals and the Chill.
- The Frostwalkers (Beings) — the angelic orders of living ice and snow.
- The Rimebound Saints — exalted, preserved humans.
The adversary, outside the hierarchy, is Melt the Dripping One (Mëlt), the Great Thaw — entropy, rot, and warmth personified.
4. Heaven / Hell / Between (fixed)
- Heaven → The White Horizon (also the Everwinter Halls, Hibernal Paradise): an endless, pristine, silent snowfield where the faithful are kept incorrupt forever.
- Hell → The Mire (the Great Thaw, the Sodden Deep): a hot, dripping, never-freezing bog of rot where the wicked melt without end and are never stilled.
- Purgatory/between → The Slush: the meltwater margin where the partly-thawed are slowly re-frozen.
5. Sin & Virtue (fixed lists)
Sins are “Embers” / “the Thaw within.” The Seven Fevers (cardinal sins):
- Haste (Hurry) — the refusal of Stillness.
- The Boil (Wrath).
- The Devouring Thaw (Gluttony / consumption).
- The Glare (Vanity / pride / the heat of self-regard).
- The Hoarding-of-Heat (Greed).
- The Rot (Sloth-as-decay; idle warmth).
- The Long Melt (Despair; surrender to the Thaw).
Virtues are “the Crystalline Virtues” / “the Six Points” (one per point of the The Sixfold Star):
- Stillness 2. Patience 3. Clarity 4. Temperance (Coolness) 5. Endurance 6. Purity. The “seventh, hidden point” is Hope (the Returning Frost) — see The Crystalline Virtues.
6. Names & Spellings (canonical — do not vary)
People: Connor Frost, Wenna Frost (mother), Edrick Frost (father), Halvard the Hoary (flood survivor), Borën the Lawgiver, Hagal (first scholar-patriarch), Isen (chief prophet), Corin the Coldstone (first apostle/denier), Vael (apostle to the South, letter-writer), Jurden (the betrayer), Lazren (the twice-frozen), Eilif Vorne (reformer), Tepidus / the CaloriI emperors (persecutors), King Sigmund the Cold, King Haldor.
The Frostborne Twelve: Corin, Edran, Sefa, Lucan, Voss, Bram, Tove, Ingr, Haldan, Maren, Yorin, Jurden (betrayer, later replaced by Mattan).
Places: Hollowfrost (Brymmar) — birthplace; Wintermere — holy city; Mount Hoar — the Lawgiving; The Frozen Falls — Connor’s marking; The Glacier of the Sepulchre — his tomb; Hibernfold — the lost paradise; Solmara — the warm southern empire of bondage; Caldhaven — northern capital; The Hoarpeaks — sacred range; The Silent Drift — chief monastery.
Things/eras: the Rime (the material world), the Whiteout (the cleansing freeze), the Kindling (the Fall), the Stolen Ember (the first fire), the Rewhitening / the Great Reglaciation (the end of days), the Frostmark (baptism), the Cold Communion (eucharist), the Hours of Frost (canonical prayer hours).
7. Canon Structure (fixed)
The Frostian Canon has two testaments:
- The Elder Rime (pre-Connor) — 16 books. See Canon Index.
- The Latter Frost (Connor and after) — 11 books (4 Glacials + Acts + 5 letters + Revelation of Ice).
- The Apocrypha — disputed/non-canonical writings, kept separately.
8. House Style for Scripture
- Chapter:verse citation, e.g. Frost 1:1, Vael to the Wintermereans 4:9.
- Scriptural prose is grave, rhythmic, archaic but never copied from any real scripture.
- Connor’s epithet “the Awesome Sauce” is used reverently and sparingly in scripture (it is treated as a holy title, the Savor), and more freely in folk/commentary material. The humor is in the premise; the prose stays straight-faced.