Ice Fiend

[Sorontar]

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[Sorontar]

This awnshegh only has a very short description but he is described very similarly to Hoarfrost. I am wondering whether they may be the same creature, just different names on either side of the Great Bay.

If not, I have started giving Hoarfrost some blood abilities etc that mainly give him the power to control and manipulate ice. I am thinking that the Ice Fiend might best be more of a basher than a manipulator. Therefore his abilities should be more about strength and fighting.

For example, his ice body is like armour, but should he have the regeneration ability like I gave Hoarfrost? He should be very strong, able to pick up and throw chunks of ice. His primary weapons can be his fists of ice and a charge. But he should get double damage from fire attacks.

Anyone think of anything else?

Sorontar

[Cargaroth]

love to see some v 3.5 stats on the Ice fiend. I am running a campaign in Jankaping at the moment.

[Sorontar]

I am presuming that nothing much was said about him in the official publications and what was said is in the wiki. Therefore, I think we can invent him. This seems to be true of many awnsheghlien and even more so of the ehrsheghlien, e.g. Hoarfrost, the Rimeshark, the Badger.

[Thelandrin]

It is highly likely that they are one and the same. After all, two ice-based awnsheghlien in the same cultural area is vanishingly unlikely.

[Sorontar]

But that is it, they aren't in the same cultural area. The Ice Fiend is seen in Jankaping, which is a far western Rjurik realm, and the Hoarfrost is seen in the IceMarsh, which is north-eastern Vosgaard. But since we know that the Great Bay ices up in winter, I see it possible that a single awnshegh could be found in both. It would be like seeing it in Greenland and Norway or Norway and Northern Russia.

However, one could be put down as a true awnshegh (Hoarfrost) formed by Bloodform and the other (Ice Fiend) could be rumoured to be a construction by the White Witch (which may have since been blooded).

Or they could both be the same.

[rjurikwinds]

This awnshegh only has a very short description but he is described very similarly to Hoarfrost. I am wondering whether they may be the same creature, just different names on either side of the Great Bay.

For some reason I remember a rather lengthy description of the Ice Fiend in Jankaping -- similar to a "recent events" for regents to take care of. I even recall that the Rjurik Highlands had a stats card on the awnshegh -- and a drawsing that looked like a icy-blue genie with big sharp teeth.

I don't recall the Hoarfrost, but it did feel like the Awnshegh nature (and powers) of the icefiend was really "Ice", and with powers that wax and wane with the season and there was a a plot with two kids getting lost... gosh, I can't remember where I read that stuff -- was it perhaps one of my own campaigns?

[Cargaroth]

THe Rjurik Highlands set had a quarter of an A4 sheet with the Ice Field's 2nd Ed stats, as below

(MAw Az, major, 32, CE)

THis awnsheighlin has begun terrorizing the isolated province of Rhutaffel in Jankaping. So far no one has seen the creature and lived, it exists largly as rumour.

The Ice Fiend was once a Rjurik ranger named Holm Sturnjallick etc etc. He has different stats for different parts of the year.

Thanks for the reminder, but I was still hoping for 3.5 V stats had they been developed.