The Symbols, Relics & Sacred Creatures of Frostianity
The visual and material language of the faith — the signs Frostians make, the colors they wear, the relics they revere, and the holy beasts of their imagination.
The Sacred Signs
- The Sixfold Star — the supreme symbol: the six-armed snowflake of the six virtues about one still center; the “cross of Frostianity.”
- The Frostmark (gesture) — the sign traced on brow and breast: a touch of frost at the brow, the heart, and the two shoulders, “still, cold, clear, and kept.” See The Frostmark.
- The Four Living Frosts (Symbol) — the Owl, Stag, Wolf, and Bear of the four Glacials.
- The Aurora-Bow — the cold rainbow, sign of the Covenant of Rime.
The Sacred Colors
See The Liturgical Colors (Symbol):
- White — the Cold, purity, the The White Horizon (Firstsnow, the Whitening).
- Glacier-blue — the deep, the eternal, contemplation.
- Silver/Frost-grey — penitence, pilgrimage, the The Long Fast.
- Aurora (green-violet shimmer) — glory, the Frostwalkers, Aurora Night.
- Ember-red — used only to mark sin, warning, and the Fevers (and the blood of martyrs).
The Sacred Artifacts & Relics
- The Glacier Heart — the “Coldest Stone,” the relic-stone of Wintermere.
- Connor’s Breath — the holy vial of unmelting frost from the Sublimation.
- The Rime Staff — the staff of Borën, later the patriarchal crozier.
- The Hoarcrown — the crown of the The Rime Pontiff.
- The Ark of the Covenant of Rime — the lost ark of the old covenant.
- The Sunstone — the stone of the Melting (a relic of the Whitening).
- The Frostmark Cord and Furs (Vesture) — the vestments of the clergy and the pilgrim.
The Sacred Creatures
- Rimehart — the white stag; royalty, the soul seeking the Cold.
- Hoarbear — the great white bear; strength, sacrifice, mercy.
- Pale Owl — messenger of the Hoarfather; wisdom; descended on Connor at the Marking.
- Winter Wolves — the Hoarfather’s hounds; the wild justice of the Cold.
- The Frostwyrm — the great ice-dragon; guardian of cold hoards; ambiguous (sometimes a servant of the Cold, sometimes a beast of the deep).