Auril
(a.k.a. Frostmaiden, Icedawn, the Cold Goddess, Lady Frostkiss, Saukuruk (Great Glacier))
Divine Domains
Nature, Tempest
Portfolio: Cold Winter
Divine Symbols & Sigils
Domains
- Nature
- Tempest
Tenets of Faith
Cover all the lands with ice. Quench fire wherever it is found. Let in the winds and the cold; cut down windbreaks and chop holes in walls and roofs that my breath may come in. Work darknesses to hide the cursed sun so that the chill I bring may slay. Take the life of an arctic creature only in great need, but slay all others at will. Make all Faerûn fear me.
Holidays
Midwinter (Night), Hammer 30 to Alturiak 1. This was the most holy night of the year for the clergy, a festival of ice-dancing that lasted all night.[7] Druids were also known to pay respect to the Frostmaiden on this date.[16]
The Coming Storm and the Last Storm, informal but enthusiastically celebrated rituals where the priests gathered and called howling ice storms down on a region to mark the onset and end of winter.[7]
Auril's Blesstide, or Auril's Day, was a holiday (of sorts) held annually in the city of Waterdeep on the first day of new frost in the year. It was not so much a holiday as a way to seek to appease the Frostmaiden in hopes of a mild winter.
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