The Awesome Sauce — The Savor of the World
“Taste and see that the Cold is good; for he is the Savor laid upon a flavorless world.” — The Cold Psalter, Psalm 34
“The Awesome Sauce” is the most beloved and most misunderstood of all the titles of Connor Frost. To the unschooled it sounds like jest; to the faithful it is among the most profound names of the Incarnate Cold. The doctrine of the Awesome Sauce is the Frostian teaching on why the world needed Connor at all.
The Word Savor
In the old Rimespeech (the liturgical tongue), the word sás meant both “savor / relish / the thing that makes the bland worth tasting” and, by extension, “the delight that makes a cold thing good and not merely empty.” Early translators into the common tongue rendered the Sás-Auwm — “the Awe-Savor,” “the Savor full of awe” — and the phrase passed into the folk speech of the faithful as “the Awesome Sauce.” The councils (Council of Frosthold) confirmed the title as orthodox, against those who thought it too lowly.
The Doctrine
The teaching runs thus. The bare Cold is perfect, but to the warm mortal heart it can seem empty — a clean white nothing, a stillness without delight. The danger of a religion of pure cold is that it should become lifeless, joyless, a worship of mere absence (the heresy the schools call Frigidism — see The Frigidist Error (Doctrine)).
Connor Frost answers this. He is the proof that the Cold is not empty but good — that perfect stillness is not death but the deepest delight; that to be kept is not to be frozen out of joy but frozen into it. He is “the Savor laid upon the snow,” the relish that reveals the white world to be a feast and not a famine. Hence:
“Without the Savor, the Cold is true but tasteless; with the Savor, the Cold is true and good and to be desired forever.” — The Sayings of the Hoary 4:1
To call Connor the Awesome Sauce is therefore to confess:
- That the Cold is not merely correct but delightful — worthy of love, not only obedience.
- That this delight is a person, Connor, and not an abstract feeling.
- That salvation is not escape from joy into a frozen void, but entrance through the cold into the truest joy — the “savor of the White Horizon.”
The Awesomeness (the Auwm)
The first half of the title, the Auwm (awe), guards against sentimentality. The Savor is awe-some: terrible, vast, the cold that stops the breath. Connor is sweet to the kept but dreadful to the Thaw. The faithful are warned in The Proverbs of Hagal 1:7, “The awe of the Cold is the beginning of clarity.” So the title holds two truths in one: delight and dread, savor and awe — the whole of what it means to meet the living Cold.
In Worship
At the The Cold Communion, as the Snow-bread is given, the minister says: “Behold the Savor of the world,” and the people answer: “Awe and delight, awe and delight, the Cold is good.” The double-cry of “awe and delight” is the most characteristic refrain of Frostian worship.