Auril - The Frostmaiden

Auril sometimes known as The Frostmaiden, is a neutral evil goddess of winter and the embodiment of winter's cruelty and all its deadliest aspects.
Those who do worship her do it more out of fear that she would make the season even more frigid to remind the people in the north who controlled the cold.

Accounts found in ancient books say Auril was struck down by a coalition of gods after she began to use the winter season to punish their followers for not offering her tribute.

She was exiled deep in the Ice Dales and imprisoned in the barren wasteland known as the Elysian Fields, an endless expanse of ice and snow above what is now the most northern town of the Ice Dales known as Snowfell. Scholars call this event of her fall ‘The Shattering’ as when the goddess was cast down, fragments of her divine essence broke away and scattered throughout the Ice Dales.
These fragments are said to pulse with her divine power. and embedded themselves in the land.
Auril radiates cold as naturally from her ice prison and manifests outward as violent storms, sudden blizzards, ice quakes, and winters that feel like they last half the year as an expression of her pain.

They say the I-var-drim were the oldest known inhabitants of the Ice Dales. Oral tradition holds that their ancestors discovered one of the shards after Auril’s fall and used it to control the weather themselves creating an oasis within the Ice Dales The I-var-drim are no more, only lost songs, incomplete stories and fading traditions remain of them and the fate of the shard they protect is also lost to history.

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