Saint Simeran
The Elder Who Held the Child · The Last of the Waiting
“Now let thy servant melt in peace, for mine eyes have seen the Cold that keepeth all peoples.” — the Stillsong of Simeran, Glacial of Lucan 2:29
Saint Simeran is the aged elder who, by the Spirit’s prompting, came into the great Frosthall of Wintermere and held the infant Connor Frost at his presentation, recognizing the long-awaited Snowfall. He had been promised he “would not melt before he had seen the Winter King,” and his words of release — the Stillsong — are sung at the rite of dying and at the close of the night office.
The Last of the Waiting
Simeran stands at the hinge of the testaments — the last of the old waiting and the first to greet the new. With the prophetess of the temple he models the patient faith that watches through the long Thaw of the Word for the coming Cold. Tradition makes him a kinsman or pupil of Saint Hagal.
Veneration
Patron of the aged, the dying, and those who wait; invoked for a peaceful death (“a good melting”). His Stillsong is among the most-sung texts of the faith.