Frost

INSULATE ●Cost: NoneDice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

Rare, to say the least, are the Gods and Goddesses of the freezing winter, the howling north wind, and the first frost. Many Pantheons don’t have a single being, Greater or Lesser, to possess such a power. But, for those who dwell in the places of the world where ice and frost are present, they know the grave danger it can present. This Boon offers some respite from the cold, and ice of the world, the Scion being able to, once per Scene, gain +6 Successes to resist the cold.

BRITTLE ●

Cost: 1 Legend per use

Dice Pool: None

Type: Miscellaneous

The North Wind makes the world delicate, both people, and the natural world. Branches snap in the breeze, ice weakens the city’s wall, expanding and breaking stone. With this Boon, a Scion may harness the Winter’s ability to make the world ever so fragile, and half the Soak of any building or object.

Frost Two

FROSTBITE ●●

Cost: 2 Legend per use

Dice Pool: Frost + Marksmanship

Type: Miscellaneous

Humanity tends to try to avoid the areas where biting cold presents itself, and those who do live in such dangerous places must use their ingenuity to protect themselves from the harsh cold. A Hero can take up this deadly power of the cold as a weapon, blasting a target with the frigid breath of the North Wind.

A Scion using this Boon uses the activation role of the power to attack a target, the target selecting Dodge DV or Block DV to defend. If the user of this Boon is Successful in their attack, they will inflict Bashing Damage with their threshold Successes. While seemingly unimpressive, this power has a subtle aspect of grave danger, just like the winter winds it commands. If the Bashing damage is untreated somehow (such as the target seeking medical attention, warming up somehow, or the like) the damage will upgrade itself to Lethal in six hours. Three hours after the damage becomes lethal, if the target has still not sought medical attention or warmed up somehow, the Lethal damage changes to Aggravated as they begin to lose limbs to frostbite.

ICE SCULPTOR ●●

Cost: None

Dice Pool: Frost + Art

Type: Miscellaneous

Growing increasingly skilled in the powers of winter and the cold, the Scion develops some control over ice. With a gesture, a breath, or anything else they find appropriate, they may use this Boon to turn one cubic yard of Water per Success instantly into ice. Additionally, they may use this Boon to control and shape ice created, able to control five cubic yards per Frost Boon they possess. They can’t telekinetically float chunks of ice with this Boon, but they may cause ice to shape and reach up into a spire, for example.

YMIR’S BREATH ●●

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

Where the Scion goes, Winter follows. Whispers of frost drift from the mouths of those in his or her presence, windows grow beautiful designs in frost, and the like. This eternal cold they bring with them reduces the Speed and the Fortitude of all beings in their presence by two Successes.

Frost Three

ICY VEINS ●●

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

Frozen to the core, a Scion with this Boon takes on some frigid aspect to their appearance, be it a frozen beard, piercing blue eyes, or their breath always floating before them. In addition, by accepting the winter into their soul, the Scion gains +2 Successes to all Fortitude rolls, and reduces every Virtue roll they make by one Success as their passions are sapped by the cold.

NUMB ●●●

Cost: 1 Legend

Dice Pool: Frost + Medicine

Type: Miscellaneous

One of the most dangerous aspects of the cold are the dangers of hypothermia, and the general feature of numbing of cold. Hypothermia leaves its victims in later stages believing themselves to be warm, incredibly warm, so warm that they think they need to strip their clothes in the middle of a snowstorm. Additionally, the colder you get, the number you get, and it becomes hard to keep track of exactly how cold you are.

Using this Boon on a target immediately causes a resistance role of Perception + Awareness from the target competing with the activation role of this Boon. If the user is Successful, the target becomes immune to Wound Penalties, but additionally entirely loses track of their Health Boxes, the Storyteller becoming responsible for calculating all damage taken by the player, possibly leading to incredibly dangerous situations.

FROZEN SPIRITS ●●●

Cost: 1 Willpower

Dice Pool: Frost + Integrity

Type: Miscellaneous

With a withering gaze, a Scion can cripple another being’s passions, leaving them hollow inside. If the user can overcome the target’s MDV, they can reduce all four of the target’s Virtues by one Dot temporarily, it becoming easier to resist them, but also reducing the power they can inspire.

Frost Four

SUB-ZERO ●●●●

Cost: 2 Legend

Dice Pool: None

Type: Miscellaneous

A herald to Winter, a Demigod with this Boon can call forth winter to a Scene they are present. After making some kind of gesture, the Scion can instantly freeze all water in the Scene (or half their Legend in miles, whichever is larger), and cause snow to begin to fall, either gently, or in a flurry, depending on the user’s will. Additionally, if the Scion wishes to generate a large amount of ice for whatever purpose they might have for it, the Scion may use this Boon to generate up to ten cubic yards of ice per Rank of Frost they possess.

Any ice, or snow created by this Boon is not warded from heat, beginning to melt as soon as the Scene is over if the temperature is not below Freezing in the area. Generally, for ice, the larger a single chunk of ice is will reduce the speed at which it will melt.

ULLER’S BLESSING ●●●●

Cost: 1 Legend

Dice Pool: None

Type: Miscellaneous

By pulling a parka’s hood up on their target’s jacket, or leading a ritual feast of animal fat, the Scion can protect others from the cold. They can give one target per use of this Boon access to Insulate (Frost 1)

SLEDS AND SKIS ●●●●

Cost: 3 Legend

Dice Pool: None

Type: Miscellaneous

The winter makes travel exceptionally more difficult, snow discouraging many methods of travel, such as horses, chariots, and even cars if not sufficiently outfitted to face the winter. With this Boon, however, a Demigod of Winter can assist the travel of their fellows. Either through blessing an existing vehicle, or calling forth skis, snowshoes, or even a dog sled, they may double all travel times in areas where snow and ice would normally provide penalties to movement.

Frost Five

COLD SNAP ●●●●●

Cost: 4 Legend

Dice Pool: None or Frost + Occult

Type: Miscellaneous

One of the most dangerous aspects of winter for early agrarian people was the possibility of a cold snap, or an early winter, killing the crops before they could be harvested. With this Boon, the Demigod can destroy all plant life (save for evergreens, and similar plants) in one mile per Frost Rank. If any of the plant life in the area has been blessed or created through use of the Fertility Purview, the user of this Boon must contest the activation role of the Fertility Boon with a Frost + Occult role.

SHORT DAYS, DYING HOPE ●●●●●

Cost: 4 Legend and 1 Willpower

Dice Pool: Frost + Integrity

Type: Miscellaneous

The merriness of Winter, common in the modern Western world, is a relatively recent development in the history of humanity. The Demigod may incite the ancient feeling of winter’s shorter days, and biting cold into the Scene. Every being in the Scene is targeted by an attack on their MDV by the activation role of this Boon. Every being whose MDV is less than the Activation role loses a Dot of all four of their Virtues for the remainder of the Scene. Additionally, if anyone who has been affected by this Boon wants to channel a Virtue, they must pay one Willpower per Dot of the Virtue.

Frost Six

FROZEN FORTRESS ●●●●● ●

Cost: 3 Legend

Dice Pool: Frost + Art

Type: Miscellaneous

The halls of Utgard-Loki, the home of Sedna, or the palace of The Snow Queen in more recent retellings, were grand castles of ice, looking like stunning crystal, or dense and opaque. With this Boon, the Scion can call forth a temporary building, the size based on the number of Successes rolled on this Boon.

BLIZZARD ●●●●● ●

Cost: 5 Legend and 1 Willpower.

Dice Pool: None.

Type: Miscellaneous.

Winter arrives with a dramatic gesture, the Demigod calling forth a large storm of snow and ice, hampering movement, perception, and the cutting cold leaving everyone withered. By using this Boon, the Demigod can introduce a Hazard to the Scene they are present in.

Frost Seven

FROZEN MARROW ●●●●● ●●

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Passive

Now on the cusp of their Apotheosis into a fully fledged Deity of winter, the Demigod is able to withstand wielding far greater powers than previously. They may empower previously mastered ways of manipulating the cold and winter for new and dangerous effects.

Brittle: The object loses the entirety of its Soak.

Ice Sculptor: The range of freezing changes to one Mile per Frost Rank.

Numb: By paying the activation cost multiple times, the Scion can use it on multiple targets in a single action.

Sub-Zero: Now reaches two miles per Frost Rank.

BOREAS’ BREATH ●●●●● ●●

Cost: None

Dice Pool: Frost + Fortitude

Type: Passive

The withering winds of winter are now, at this height of power, can call forth a withering blast of cold to freeze their enemies, cutting them to their core and leaving their flesh blackened by frostbite.

By using this Boon, the Demigod can summon forth the aforementioned blast of cold, taking the form of a cone with a base of five yards per Frost Rank. All beings in this area take an Aggravated damage attack based on the activation role.

Frost Eight

FROZEN BLOOD ●●●●● ●●●

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Passive

Now a God or Goddess in their own right, a new Deity of frost is frozen to the core, their spirit chilled, and their body so cold that their blood freezes over and armors the Deity from additional assaults.

Mechanically, this means the Deity may reduce all of their Virtue rolls by one Success, stacking with Icy Veins. Furthermore, every point of Lethal or Aggravated damage the Deity surfers, they gain one point of Armor until the end of the scene.

PERFECT STILLNESS ●●●●● ●●●

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Passive

As a true Deity, a Scion’s previous mastery of ice and cold is entirely overshadowed by the new damning cold they may bring, summoning it forth directly from the frozen reaches of Nifelheim. Whenever a Scion with this Boon activates another Frost Boon that specifically targets another being, they may activate this Boon as well to empower the other. Any being who is affected by one of these empowered Boons must reduce their Speed by the total number of Frost Boons the Deity possesses. As this effect stacks, if any being is reduced past 0 Speed, they begin to freeze solid, any penalty to Speed instead reducing their DDV.

Frost Nine

ETERNAL WINTER ●●●●● ●●●●

Cost: None

Dice Pool: Frost + Occult

Type: Passive

The cold Deities of Winter have one tremendous power in their arsenal, the power to call forth a long lasting winter, even in the middle of summer’s blistering heat. The radius that this Boon reaches is determined by the activation role of this Boon, and surpassing the effects of a normal winter, this magically summoned forth Winter lasts for one Year per Frost Rank the Scion possesses. Any being in the area of this winter who attempts to use Boons from the Fertility Purview will find their efforts contested, reducing the activation role of the Boon by one dice per Frost Boon the user possesses.

ICE STORM ●●●●● ●●●●

Cost: None

Dice Pool: Frost + Occult

Type: Passive

The wrath of a Winter Deity is drastically distinct from the wrath of a Fire Deity in many ways, but sheer capability for destruction that their wrath can bring is not one. For every Great Fire humanity has suffered, storms capable of freezing cities solid have too been present, though less burned into the consciousness of humanity as large scale urban settlements in areas of the world where such things are present were uncommon until recently.

With this Boon, the Deity can call forth a massive ice storm, or a colossal blizzard, freezing power lines, bursting even the most deeply laid of pipes, and decimating populations. Every Success gathered on the activation role of this Boon will translate into two percent population and infrastructure loss in a specific urban center of the Deities choice.

Frost Ten

EXTINGUISH THE SPARK ●●●●● ●●●●●

Cost: None

Dice Pool: Frost + Integrity

Type: Passive

The Gods and Goddesses of humanity are passionate beings, effectively humanity exaggerated in feelings, be they of wrath, justice, hope, or other values the cultures that worshiped them saw as great. With this Boon, the God or Goddess may extinguish that spark, that flare for the dramatic, from the soul of a target of their choice.

By making a Frost + Integrity roll against their target’s MDV, the Deity may render a target entirely absent of all Virtues for the remainder of the Scene, unhindered by their sway on their consciousness, but also too unable to drive themselves to great feats by them.

SOME SAY IN ICE ●●●●● ●●●●●

Cost: None

Dice Pool: Frost + Occult or Fortitude

Type: Passive

Ice Ages, though never actually having happened in the cosmologies of many Pantheons, are a tool to a Deity of Frost, just as the frozen wind is a tool of a newly budded Scion wielding the winter. With this Boon, the God or Goddess can incite an ice age upon the world, the area of which is based on the Successes this Boon gathers, calling forth glaciers to scrape the land to bedrock, snowstorms to bury skyscrapers, and hail storms dropping hunks of ice the size of Ships of the Line.

Mechanically, this frozen apocalypse is represented through killing the activation roll as a percent of the mortal population, and triple the activation roll as a percent environmental and infrastructural damage to the area (damage past 100% begins to cause mass changes to the geography of the area). Any Divine Beings in the area have the potential of living, needing to gain more Successes on an extended roll to escape the area than the user did on activating this Boon in one attempt per Dot of Legend they possess.

But, this Boon is not limited to sheerly summoning forth an almost world ending winter. If a Deity of winter wishes to be more precise in their ire, they may attempt to freeze a single target solid. Mechanically, this is an Attack dealing Aggravated damage based on the Frost + Fortitude activation roll. No armor may be applied to resist this damage, and it will strip any dealt even a single point of Aggravated Damage of all Willpower.