Shiverlight

(a.k.a. The Frozen Flame; Lantern of Stillness; Light Within the Ice)

Shiverlight is a paradoxical deity of frozen illumination, representing the interplay between stasis and revelation. Worshipped across the Icy Wastes, high peaks, and frost-ridden places, Shiverlight is the embodiment of stillness that illuminates—the cold that preserves, the silence that speaks, and the frozen moment where clarity is born.

Where Pale Coil is death, and Veilwind is transition, Shiverlight is preservation—the eternal watcher who waits patiently beneath ice and snow until the moment is right to act, to awaken, or to remember.

Cultural Significance

• Revered by Frost Elves, Icevein Minotaurs, Cryomancers, and ice-forging artisans.
• Seen as the guardian of ancient truths, especially those too dangerous or potent to speak freely.
• Memorykeepers and archivists invoke Shiverlight for perfect recall and mental clarity.
• Among undead and liches of the cold, Shiverlight is paradoxically both a holy presence and a feared adversary, representing the light of final truth and the boundary of timeless preservation.

Divine Domains

• Stillness, clarity, patience
• Memory and preservation
• Cold light, truth frozen in time
• Endurance, silent revelation, eternal guardianship

Artifacts

• Temples are ice sanctuaries built into cliffs, glacier walls, or icy lakes.
• Some shrines are entirely sealed in ice, only accessible during thaws or rare celestial alignments.
• Frozen lanterns, crystal altars, and frost-covered manuscripts are common devotional items.
• Priests are known as Flamekeepers, maintaining small eternal fires encased in ice.

Tenets of Faith

• Worship of Shiverlight involves contemplation, preservation, and ritual stillness.
• Offerings are frozen—encased in ice or left in snow-covered cairns to await thaw.
• Rituals of silence are common, especially before great decisions or revelations.
• The Vigil of Frozen Flame is an annual rite where followers meditate in the cold for a night without fire, seeking insight from within.
• Ice-forging and crystal crafting are sacred arts associated with their worship.

Mythology

• Shiverlight was born of the moment the first fire was caught in ice—neither extinguished nor freed, but preserved.
• They are said to have hidden the last true name of the world in a glacier, to be revealed only when time itself fractures.
• In Dwarven lore, Shiverlight taught the first Iceforgers how to freeze flames into weapons of truth.
• Frost Elves believe the deity slumbers in a forgotten glacier, dreaming the future into frozen script.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

• Depicted as a tall, androgynous figure encased in translucent ice, with faint blue-white fire flickering within their chest and eyes.
• Often shown holding a lantern or crystal flame, with icicles trailing from their arms and frost blooming where they walk.
• Symbols include a snowflake with a glowing core, a lantern suspended in crystal, or a circle of frost enclosing fire.
• Their image is often carved into glacier walls, crystal altars, or embedded in frozen waterways.

Species

Deity