Caldhaven and the Hoarpeaks
The Northern Heartlands of the Faith
A gathered entry on the great northern places of Frostianity beyond Wintermere. (Aliases resolve several linked place-names here.)
The Hoarpeaks
The Hoarpeaks are the great sacred mountain-range of the cold lands — “the roots of the Vault of Ice” — within which lie the holiest sites: Mount Hoar (the Lawgiving and the Rising), Hollowfrost (the Nativity), and the chief monastery of The Silent Drift. Their high, eternal snows are the earthly place most associated with the nearness of the The White Horizon; pilgrims and hermits seek their heights “to be still where the world is highest and coldest.”
Caldhaven
Caldhaven is the great northern city and the chief see of the The Glacial Orthodoxy — the eastern counterpart to Wintermere in the west. A center of ancient learning, mosaic-icon art, and the contemplative tradition, it was the seat from which the eastern Patriarch shared in the mutual un-keeping of the The Great Schism (1066), and it was tragically sacked by western armies in the Fourth Crusade — a wound that hardened the schism. Vael wrote the Letter to the Caldhavenites to its early church.
Caldmere
Caldmere is the frozen lake-town of the early ministry: home of the fishermen-apostles Corin and Edran, site of Connor’s first sign (the water-into-ice at the wedding, Glacial of Voss 2) and of the threefold restoration of Corin on its shore. A beloved pilgrimage-site of the apostolic beginnings.
The Hoarwaste
The Hoarwaste is the high frozen wilderness where Connor Frost fasted forty days and overcame the temptations of the Thaw (The Long Fast), and where the first hermits of The Order of the Silent Drift withdrew “to be still before the Cold.” A place of fasting, vigil, and the testing of the soul.
Frosthold
Frosthold is the great cathedral-and-university city, seat of the Council of Frosthold (451 A.F.) and home of the Hagalite schools — the intellectual heart of the faith, where the great theology was forged and where Eilif Vorne later began the The Frostfast Reformation.