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available in stores during the Sudden Season event. No one missed the Gelidites when they exiled themselves. They were
never trusted by the people of Yalain, who had cast the Gelidites' ancestors down from the
Ice Throne of Dericost in the Millennium War. The Gelidites, in turn, mistrusted those who
occupied their lands, and sank into a cultish seclusion.
The Gelidites were obsessed with cold, perhaps because of
their point of origin; the lofty, frozen Plateau of Gelid, upon the lip of which had sat
Sarvien's bleak palace. They always shielded themselves from the sun with full, deep blue
robes. Led by a "Council of Three," they devoted much effort to the study and
worship of magics most chilling.
Theirs was an apocalyptic religion, which held that one day
the sun would dim, and world would freeze over. They believed that by studying frost-based
magics, and developing an affinity for the cold, they could survive this great freezing.
It is said that they planned to tunnel into a remote mountain peak, where they would erect
a great city, to be named Frore. Intruders from the surface would be warded away by the
bitter mountain cold and an inescapable maze of tunnels.
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The Gelidites existed underground for most of the Age of
Lore. After living undisturbed, if shunned, amidst the population for millennia, the
discovery of a Lich living hidden in the mountains of Haebrous turned the public eye back
to the Gelidites. Although there has never been any proof that the Gelidites resumed the
proscribed arts of Dericost, they were blamed nonetheless. Many of their number were taken
in for questioning, and others were stoned on the street.
The oppression did not last long, however, as the Gelidites
quickly made known the power they had amassed. The bodies of the Grand Inquisitor and his
assistants were found melting in the square of Farimeh, frozen and shattered into hundreds
of shards, their faces twisted into horrific masks of pain. After this, no one would
bother them for fear of incurring further wrath - they were, after all, the descendants of
the most reviled magicians in history.
A few years after the death of the Grand Inquisitor, the
Gelidites silently gathered their possessions and filed out of the cities in the dead cold
of night, and were never heard from again. It is suspected that they went, under the
leadership of the Council of Three (at that time consisting of the mages Fenngar,
Frisander, and Ferundi) to excavate the ice city, somewhere in the fastnesses of the
mountains. There have been no trace of the Gelidites, or the mythical Frore, ever since. |
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