@TheEdVerse #realmslore Quick question, got a game I'm running for my kids. One picked to be a cleric of Auril but we can't find much on what she expects of her clerics. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
— DadandDax PlayGames (@DadandDax) January 6, 2020
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Right, here we go…
The Frostmaiden has a loosely organized church; her clergy wander the Realms and operate with a lot of independence (making the adventuring life ideal for them). They are charged to make all folk fear the 2)
…Cold Goddess and her clergy, by visiting the fury of winter weather upon mortals. That doesn’t mean making everyone suffer; those who pay her clergy for magical protection from the cold receive it from her clergy, and priests…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2020
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…of Auril also carry out tasks others cannot, in fierce winter weather conditions (sometimes when hired to do so, sometimes to benefit their friends or those who pray fervently to the Frostmaiden, and sometimes to win public 4)
…favour for themselves and the goddess). They may help someone snowbound to get to shelter or a desired destination, may guide caravans, wayfarers, or peddlers through whiteout blizzards, help hunters or others to find food in…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2020
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…deep-snow snowstorms, and so on.
Some high-value caravans (carry gems, or important people, or desperately needed food or medicines) are run every winter by caravan masters who pay clergy of Auril highly to guide them—and such… 6)
…clergy, regardless of alignment, will do their very best to see those caravans reach their destinations in a timely manner, with every member safe. Auril expects no less, for she wants mortal awe and respect as well as fear.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2020
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Clerics of Auril are expected to make offerings to Her by sharing some of the personal wealth they amass by such activities by tossing the coins or gems down glacial crevasses, or cracks in the ice covering frozen lakes or 8)
…rivers, or casting them wildly into ground-fallen snow during a snowstorm.
Clergy of the Frostmaiden are charged to quench fire wherever they find it, let in the cold and icy winds, and cover the landscape with ice. They are…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2020
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…forbidden to fight or slay fellow clergy of Auril, or arctic creatures save in self-defense or “great need,” but can otherwise slay others at will—by Auril’s means (cold, snow, and ice), so stabbing with an icicle dagger or 10)
…causing a fatal fall by creating an ice slide are fine, picking up a mundane weapon and doing murder is NOT. Every winter, a cleric of Auril is expected to slay at least one creature with cold (a sentient creature or one…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2020
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…larger than the priest is, not a handy mouse, rat, or bird). Priests of the Icedawn are expected to cause fog, mist, storms, and cloudy weather where they can, to prevent clear skies and sunlight melting ice and snow and 12)
…warming the land.
Clergy of Auril are expected to persuade or force a non-cleric to pray to Auril for mercy and also to praise the goddess for her “cold cleansing.” This prayer must be done out of doors, preferably at… #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2020
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…night, and must last for as long as it takes for a piece of ice larger than the praying being’s hand to melt against their bared flesh.
Clerics of Auril pray to the goddess for their spells either at the coldest time of the 14)
…day, or at midnight, lying outside in the snow or the coldest stream they can find, to do so.
Since the Sundering, several priests of Auril have made a lot of coin by hiring themselves out to hunt and slay monsters forced by…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2020
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…scarce winter food into harassing countryside or wilderness communities, or harvesting hibernating creatures such as bears and selling them for food to those facing starvation or near-starvation in the depths of winter 16)
Hope this is of help. (I’m assuming here that the PC has already been accepted by Auril, and has therefore undergone and survived the Embracing.)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2020
Thank you. What is the embracing?! It’s the ritual for becoming a cleric of Auril (she accepts all who survive it): the supplicant wears only boots, a thin shift, and the symbols of Auril painted on their body, and runs through a blizzard all night without any protective magic.It's the ritual for becoming a cleric of Auril (she accepts all who survive it): the supplicant wears only boots, a thin shift, and the symbols of Auril painted on their body, and runs through a blizzard all night without any protective magic.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 7, 2020