Jeral
The Weeping Prophet · Herald of the New Covenant
“Behold, the days come, saith the Cold, that I will make a new covenant — not graven in stone, but breathed as frost upon the heart.” — Book of Jeral 31:31
Jeral is the weeping prophet (c. 626–582 B.F.), who prophesied through the last days of the Northern Kingdom and the fall of Wintermere (c. 586 B.F.). His was the bitter task of foretelling the city’s burning and the Exile to a people who would not turn from their warmth — and of weeping for them when it came. His laments are gathered with the Lament of the Long Thaw.
The New Covenant
Amid his sorrow Jeral spoke the faith’s brightest Elder promise: the New Covenant, in which the Law would no longer be graven without but “breathed as frost upon the heart” — a prophecy Frostians hold fulfilled in Connor Frost and the gift of the Rime-within at the The First Hollownight (Pentecost). He is thus the prophet who joins the Elder Rime to the Latter Frost.
Veneration
Patron of the sorrowful, the faithful in defeat, and those who serve thanklessly; emblem of the tear of frost. His book grounds the Cold Communion’s “new covenant in the cup.”