Frykka: Frykka Revealed

Frykka Revealed

Okay - here we go!

Frykka, the Mother of Winter is a boogey man among the Invorri. There's actually a lot of little legends I worte about her. Frykka is the name the Northmen call her - among the Elves, she's known as Fyringael.

She's an Elf you see - one of the Sidhe (the Titan level demigods of the Elvish race), associated witht he Dar Khelegur. Long ago, when the Deathless Empire was first on the rise, she and Sillestor vied for power - she lost. A sorceress and Channeler of unimaginable power, she had devoted herself to the study of cold, ice and the element of water above all others. Legends also say that she was quite insane. Some scholars also wonder if she might not have stumbled onto some of the secrets of the Fury (as the Amazons call it - her powers seem to owe as much to the weather witches as they do to conventional channeling).

Anyway, there came a point when she became SO unstable that her own kindred sealed her in a cave in the far north, magically imprisoning her. She stayed in her came for centuries, growing ever angrier and even more unstable.

Fast forward to the Age of Days, when Torvald and the Invorri first came to the North. The Dar Khelgur waged a bitter war against the Northmen, and they were sorely pressed until Torvald learned the legend of Fyringael ahnd went on a quest quest for her cave. He found it, broke the seals, and unleashed her. Fyringael then took her vengeance upon her own kin, who locked her away so long ago.

Her fury was so terrible that the Northmen still speak of it in hushed tones. The Ice Elves stopped their war with the Invorri, and then the Mother of Winter turned her wrath upon Torvald and his children. The resutling wrestling match atop the Sturmgrammestor is the stuff of legend.

She was not killed - legends say that she either retreated into the utter north to brood, or that she was returned to her prison. Either way, I'd expect there would be few who would offer prayers or offerings to her, excpet to appease her or keep her away.

I would think that Elves or Aelfborn would be her most likely worshippers. She does indeed represnt all that is bad about cold, ice, and winter. She also has some strong associations with death - the whole notion that the turn of the seasons represents that annual death and rebirth of the world. As such, some Shades might be drawn to her, looking for secrets about death. Who knows - in time, she might attain some renown as a consort to Ardan among those who wear the Shroud...