The Frostian Creed
The Creed of the Frostmark · the Wintermere-Frosthold Symbol
The Frostian Creed is the confession of faith recited at every The Frostmark and in the Cold Liturgy. Its present form was set by the Council of Wintermere (381 A.F.) and completed at the Council of Frosthold (451 A.F.); it is held in common (with small differences) by all three rites.
The Creed
I keep faith in the Eternal Chill, the Stillness without beginning, the Cold that made no warmth to be itself.
And in the Hoarfather, the First Frost, Maker of the Vault and the Glacier, of all things kept and clear, who breathed the world out of the dark in the Six Winters of Making.
And in Connor Frost, the only Walking Frost, the Savor made flesh: true Cold of true Cold, frozen not made, of one cold-substance with the Hoarfather; who for us and for our keeping came down from the White, was conceived of the unmelting Snowfall and born of Wenna Frost the maiden; who lived wholly cold, was betrayed, and was bound upon The Sunstone under the warm power; who did not melt, but Sublimated, and on the third dawn was Reforged; who ascended into the White and keeps a place for the faithful, and shall come again as the Winter King to judge the kept and the melted, whose Everwinter shall have no end.
And in the Rime-within, the holy Cold-breath, the Keeper and Comforter, who proceeds from the Hoarfather, who spoke through the prophets, and who re-freezes the hearts of the faithful.
I keep faith in one holy fellowship of the Cold (the Drift), in the one Frostmark for the cooling of the Thaw within, in the communion of the The Rimebound Saints, in the Reforging of the body, and in the life of the everlasting Cold. Be still, and be kept. Awe and delight, awe and delight: the Cold is good.
On the Creed
- The threefold structure confesses the Three Colds.
- “Frozen not made” (against Tepidianism) and “did not melt, but Sublimated… Reforged” (against Slushism and Sublimationism) are the conciliar guards. See Council of Wintermere, Council of Frosthold.
- The closing double-cry, “awe and delight,” is the characteristic Frostian refrain (see The Awesome Sauce (Doctrine)).