Church of Auril
The Church of Auril was the loosely organized and informal clergy dedicated to Auril.
Clerics of Auril were mostly women and were known as chillbringers. Most clerics of Auril were independent and wandered the colder parts of Toril. They wore ice white robes with blue trim, and a wide silver colored belt. Their ceremonial axe hung from this belt. They also wore a circlet of silver around their head. Specialty priests of Auril were called icepriestesses.
Wizards who were loyal or worshiped the Frostmaiden were called Cold Cloaks. They served Auril by providing magical assistance to the clergy.
Clerics of Auril worked to establish themselves as a powerful figure within a tribe. They used this power to form a cult and channel a tribe's worship away from their traditional deities towards Auril. The tribe was taught to channel their fury towards those not of the tribe, as a way to be spared the harshness of winter. This led the subverted tribe into a life of pillaging and raiding.
Sacrifices to the Frostmaiden were common, especially in the North, as people hoped to appease her and thus avoid cripplingly cold winters. Travelers forced to travel in the winter tossed coins, usually gold or silver coins, into a cold stream or the snow before embarking into cold. At the first sign of winter, it was common for farmers to throw some of their harvest into the north wind.
Fanatical members of her cult engaged in human sacrifice. Humans sacrificed to the Frostmaiden are often left tied up to perish from exposure to the cold, or drowned in ice-cold ponds.
Auril used frost giants and winter wolves to deliver commands to her cults, while frostwind viragos and winter hags were the handmaidens of the Frostmaiden.
The residents of ten-towns all participate in sacrifices to Auril to try to loosen the grip of the everlasting rime. Some offer people, others food or warmth.
Magic:
Clerics of the Frostmaidan were bestowed a natural immunity to cold which was identical to the effects of the resist cold spell. Powerful clerics had the innate ability to duplicate the effects of the ice storm spell, and summon ice para-elementals. Clerics of Auril had access to the spells of both the Time and Wards spheres. Unlike rank and file clerics, specialty priests of Auril were unable to turn the undead. The Codicil of White was a magical book containing basic rites, rituals, services, and major ceremonies of Auril's faith. The book also had several pages devoted to the goddess' favorite arcane magic. It was created as a tool for Aurilian wizards and sorcerers to gain a better understanding of the faith. It is thought to be able to help locate the lost city of Ythryn.
Type
Religious, Cult
Divines
Notable Members
