The Frostmark Cord and Furs (Vesture)
The Vestments of the Clergy and the Pilgrim
The vesture of Frostianity is its faith worn upon the body — the garments of the Keepers at the altar and of the pilgrim on the cold road. Its two essential signs are the Frostmark Cord and the white furs.
The Frostmark Cord
The Frostmark Cord is a knotted white cord worn at the waist or about the shoulders, taken at the The Frostmark (initiation) and worn for life. Its six knots recall the six virtues of the The Sixfold Star; the clergy’s cord adds knots of office. To “take the cord” is to enter the keeping life; to “loose the cord” is an idiom for apostasy.
The Furs and Colors
The white furs and mantle mark the wearer as one of the Cold, shielded against the world’s heat; the pilgrim’s grey furs mark penitence and the road. Vestments follow the liturgical colors — white for the great feasts, glacier-blue for ordinary time, silver-grey for the Fast, aurora for Aurora Night, and ember-red only for martyrs and warning. The Rime Pontiff wears the The Hoarcrown above all.