The Way of Embers
The Great Penitential Pilgrim Road
The Way of Embers is the chief penitential pilgrim road of Frostianity — the long cold route that pilgrims walk to the The Glacier of the Sepulchre, the place of Connor’s Whitening and Reforging. Its name holds its paradox: the pilgrim walks away from the embers (the warmth, comfort, and fevers of ordinary life) and toward the Cold, “cooling with every mile.” Its waystations recall the stages of the Whitening.
The Pilgrim Way
Pilgrims walk in the grey furs of penitence (see The Frostmark Cord and Furs (Vesture)), keeping the The Hours of Frost on the road, sheltering in the hospices of the Blue Vigil and the Friars, and telling the Rime-Cord as they go. The completed Way is held to cool many fevers of the soul; pilgrims return marked with the Sixfold Star of the road. It is one of the great pilgrimages described in Pilgrimage in Frostianity, walked especially in the season of The Whitening Holiday.