The Apocrypha of Frostianity — The Hidden and Disputed Writings
Beyond the fixed canon lies a body of apocryphal writings — texts of doubtful, late, or disputed authority. The rites treat them differently: some are deutero-rime (read for edification but not for doctrine), some are hidden (esoteric, used by mystics), and some are rejected (condemned as warm/heretical). The Council of Frosthold set the boundary.
The Deutero-Rime (read, not doctrinal)
Accepted by the The Hoarfrost Communion and The Glacial Orthodoxy as edifying; held non-canonical by the Reformed:
- The Sayings of the Hoary — expanded wisdom of Saint Hagal.
- The Book of the Maccafrosts — the heroic resistance of the faithful against the warm Seleukid persecution before Connor.
- The Wisdom of Ysolde — a wisdom-book in the voice of Lady Rime.
The Infancy & Hidden Gospels (disputed)
- Gospel of the Child Frost — the childhood miracles of Connor Frost (popular but non-canonical).
- The Secret Sayings of Connor — a sayings-gospel prized by mystics, suspected of Sublimationism.
- The Protorime of Wenna — the birth and girlhood of Wenna Frost.
The Apocalyptic & Visionary (hidden)
- Apocalypse of Hagal — the fall of the Frostwalkers and the war in the Vault; source of the Solwen-legend of Melt the Dripping One.
- The Ascent of Hesk — a journey through the layers of the Rime.
The Rejected (condemned)
- The Book of Jurden — the “gospel of the betrayer,” which recasts Jurden as a hero; condemned as a warm inversion.
- The Gospel of the Warm Light — a Sublimationist/Embermite text denying Connor’s true flesh.
On Reading the Apocrypha
The faithful are counseled: “Read the deutero-rime as one warms cold hands at a small fire — gratefully, but never mistaking the fire for the sun.” The hidden books are for the spiritually mature under guidance; the rejected books are not to be read save by scholars refuting them.