What They Don't Tell You About The Frostmaiden (No Spoilers) - D&D

[@urquanoverlord2538]

Evil or not that owl looks huggable.

[@FreedomAndPeaceOnly]

*_" My fluffy Killer can't be this cute. "_*

[@havel4385]

it doesn't matter if its evil or not, it just matters if it looks cute.

[@TerrariaGolem]

Ah yes, ominously glowing eyes.

[@robertdicke7249]

who? Sorry, it is a sacred joke that must be invoked.

[@paulthomas2779]

When you activate and complete the quest to tame owlbears and get one as a mount/partner for your journey "this is my buddy hoobert, he is very special to me and I love him as if he's my own child, if you dare hurt him, I'll make your life miserable" ~ a character that loves their owlbear

[@laser8389]

4E tried to get rid of Talos? Damn Thalmor...

[@linnlock7958]

Damn elves

[@FreedomAndPeaceOnly]

This damn golden Highelves... ... squirming around everywhere, spreading their Elven stench... ... *DISGUSTING !!* (lol)

[@brotheralaric7177]

Call the Dragonborn.

[@buzzfiend]

Yeah and what sucks more is Bethesda making Skyrim 4E 💀

[@TYOjoe]

On one hand, i dont want to watch this video so i can see everything with fresh eyes when it comes out. On the other hand, I'll probably be the one DMing it so I might as well learn.

[@No-ms3hj]

Same here man

[@TrashGoblinBell]

I feel this in my bones

[@r.r815]

I feel this in my very soul

[@matthewlahr1516]

Same, I make it a point to run most of the adventures at least once

[@andollpony2227]

That's kinda sad. Though good for you if you prefer DMing.

[@gloam2428]

That Auril symbol in 5e still has a diamond if you look closely, it’s just part of the actual snowflake rather than the background of the symbol

[@FreedomAndPeaceOnly]

My non-english native ears always hear _"Oral"_ ... especially during the parts with all the kissing. ^^

[@brunoborello8309]

@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly where you from?

[@Donovarkhallum]

For real I don't know how he didn't see that

[@bcfb21]

Talos? Talos?! TALOS! LET ME SHOOOOOW YOU THE POWER OF TALOS STORMCROWN!

[@doctorfunk7959]

Dis gave me a giggle

[@mysticmagicsmurfdarklord6844]

Different Talos

[@fallenstarempire707]

He knows that, he's making a joke.

[@DragonGunzDorian]

He WALKS AMONG THE STAAAAARS!

[@edd5554]

14:10 _Damn faithless Imperials_

[@andrzej6294]

IMO you should emphasise more that Gods of Fury are evil, but not vile just as Bane, Shar or Cyric. Gods of Fury represent primal forces of nature that encoruages their priests to inspire terror by their raw power. But as much as they can be harmful and deadly, they protect and offer help. Average person in FR venerates them from a need of protection from, in this example, winter and frost. I really apreciate your job and find your videos absolutely great, but I feel that sometimes complexity, especialy of dieties, is not emphasised as intriguing as it can be

[@thunderstorm9541]

true, but the way they protect and offer help is very much similar to the mob offering protection and help, by causing a problem and then alleviatung it after strong arming weaker folk. not saying she's the cause of all of it, but she literally goes out of her way to make you miserable if you don't give her attention

[@bigd7861]

@@thunderstorm9541 Sounds like any Government I've ever heard of...

[@TheFearsomeRat]

"Chosen by a God" My Mind: "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!" "SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!"

[@Master_E444]

Khorne Cultist: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!!!! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!! Auril Cultist: Winter for the Winter Goddess!!! Ice for the Ice Throne!!!

[@lionmainlol9064]

Chant for khorne brother

[@mihai000000]

khorne would bitch slap most of DnD gods without even getting off his throne

[@InternationalAwesomeFoundation]

This is ice. Think Kislev, Not Chaos. God, I sound like a bad 90's PSA.

[@InternationalAwesomeFoundation]

@@mihai000000 the only exceptions are overdieties and some dieties of immense power and authority like tyr, primus, their sort.

[@Grinnar]

I love the dog barking subtitle.

[@patroclusilliad233]

Rhexx: "Clerics of Auril take vows of celibacy..." Bard Players: "Challenge Accepted!"

[@probablythedm1669]

Go paladin, Oath of Redemption. Then go Bard, for Expertise and self inspiration. Let thine love redeem the villainous as you Lay on Hands! :D

[@obsidianthurisaz5106]

*whistle* RAPE

[@umedyn8371]

Auril and Umberlee were just really close "roommates" historians surmise.

[@thehillz726]

They're like those cousins in sailor moon

[@ohwowitsthatguy9154]

Oh my god they were roommates.

[@mixstardust429]

Sappho and her friend

[@briannatench8105]

Just good friends, just gals bein pals

[@kidam8438]

QoNaD and Auril are similarly just "good friends" who constantly share clothes and answer one another's phones.

[@rosythemochi3234]

As someone who's close to participating in a Icewind Dale campaign with the most merciless DM ever who will not hesistate to commit TPK nor allow us to use DP for re-rolls, this came at the best time ever Thanks for the lore on the game beforehand QwQ

[@justnoob8141]

How many time did you reset your campaign?

[@steffenjespersen247]

@@justnoob8141 Back in the day when we played D&D if a campaign suffered a TPK the campaign was over, the "evil" won. And we would start over somewhere else in the realms a new start and new adventures.

[@justnoob8141]

@@steffenjespersen247 don’t forget the campaign over and the evil win the moment you complete your very first dungeon that’s 2 rooms long

[@steffenjespersen247]

@@justnoob8141 I don't understand what you mean.

[@justnoob8141]

@@steffenjespersen247 you don't play D&D to have fun, you play D&D because you want to have a power trip and the best way to do it is decalre that you win before it started

[@Teekayhuey_TK]

I am Wan Shi Tong, he who knows ten thousand things

[@eruilluvitar6269]

Nice Avatar reference I finished re-watching it recently.

[@TheHumanShitpost]

Here's my knot in the shape of a giraffe, ima go read some books now

[@Jane_8319]

I appreciate the reference.

[@fate4gg142]

I am Gont ihs Naw, the man who forgot ten thousand things

[@logo050400]

@@eruilluvitar6269 same

[@IndorilNerevar-MoonandStar]

This video (and even the impending release of IceWind Dale) came at an absolutely perfect time for me. I have an Aasimar paladin and consort of Auril in my out of the abyss game right now. I plan on taking them to IceWind Dale as a little part of the campaign for a mini adventure between their main quest. Thanks for another awesome video bro!

[@Valasilphukiir]

Your character interests me... do tell more.

[@sunwarrior310]

I always run the connection between Auril and the Queen of Air and Darkness as a maternal one. The Queen of Air and Darkness birthed/created Auril. When Auril is tied up in certain events, The Queen takes her mantle since she's more enigmatic, powerful, and needs to be "present" less often in order to maintain her power. I also run Auril as having daughters too, being the Frostwind Viragos from 3.5's Monster Manual V, who I reeeealllyyyy hope get a stat block/appear in this adventure. Seriously guys, if you don't know what they are, look them up. Perfect for an Auril/winter game.

[@sandrols7]

She has 1 Daughter, as of 5e: Nalkara, an Empyrean whom she sired with Thrynn, god of the Frost Giants, who appears only in the module Waterdeep: Dungeons of the Mad Mage. I made her have a more central role to the plot of Icewind Dale, per suggestion of another youtuber, to explain a bit of Auril's unrelenting fury.

[@WaltRBuck]

"She can kill with spells." "She can kill with a kiss" "She can just kill" "If you happen to attack her in her realm.." Wait.. WHAT?

[@pvic6959]

"She can kill with a kiss" not the worst way to go is it :^)

[@unbearablysmug2437]

@Stygian Eons everyone is replying to the previous guy so I'm continuing it

[@kkTeaz]

@@unbearablysmug2437 ok

[@kkTeaz]

Yea

[@kkTeaz]

Seems legit

[@haenen100]

Never thought that the Tempest made much self, myself. The gods weirdly distributed in power, with thunder being more powerful than winter and the sea because when we're talking about people venerating and fearing something it would surely be the occasional few hours of mostly harmless light rather than the worst 1/4th of the year or the vast seas. It's not as if many people were freezing to death in their sleep back in the medieval period, or seeing their harvests fail due to the fickle nature of winter. Auril should be the strongest, not a middling god of the Tempest. Also Malar being part of the Tempest. Instead of, I don't know, some summer or fire god that enables people to make these four signify the worst of the four seasons and thus each have their own moment to shine. But instead the Forgotten Realms for all their god overload don't have a single evil god of summer or scorching heat. Not even in the deserts.

[@DrewBorrowdale]

the diamond is still there its just the snowflake seems to be enlarged, breaking free of the diamond border.

[@fistimusmaximus6576]

perhaps that indicates that she has been usurped or she usurped the queen of air and darkness.

[@YurgenGrimwood]

Rhexx: describes two goddesses as really good friends. Shippers who just found out these two exist: triggered.

[@stephaniesilvan3526]

Really really really really REALLY good "friends".

[@brotheralaric7177]

R34 artisti: "mhhh thats interesting."

[@falkj.beinker6561]

"and they were roommates" mog they were roommates !

[@Valasilphukiir]

1: Auril is one of my favourite deities, probably ever since playing through Icewind Dale II. I often depict her as a less objectively evil deity (for one she's a deity of nature with winter being part of the natural order), and more of a fey and fickle deity, who adopts and protects her followers even if she mercilessly punishes those who don't show her respect. I also see her as the mother and adopter of parentless children (especially girls), which adds to her fey aspect as a sort of reversal of the changeling myth. This was inspired by Icewind Dale II where she was the mother figure for the three orphaned sisters who became her priests in the great ice temple, as well as in Neverwinter Nights 2 where one of the pre-made characters you could choose to play as was an orphaned half-orc ranger with the wild child background who believed she heard her mother's voice in the winter wind and had Auril as her chosen deity. Does Auril truly love these adopted children in spite of her cruelty (like grandfather Nurgle in Warhammer) and thus they return her love with devotion to her cause, or are they forever looking up to their new mother, seeking to gain her approval and fill that gap in their hearts in an insoluble case of unrequited love? Either way it makes for dramatic storytelling.

[@Valasilphukiir]

2: I once ran a long campaign set in ancient Netheril where the two PCs were peasant brothers from low Netheril who were taken under an archwizard's wing after warning him in time to save him from an assassination attempt (they spotted him in a secret meeting when trying to track down a lost sheep that the younger brother accidentally let out of their pen, and saw an assassin sneaking up on him in the shadow of old ruins). After many adventures and the PCs coming around level 20 or so their second campaign involved them going west to what would later be known as the northern Sword Coast to found Netherese colonies there. The villain of this second campaign was to be Safya Aurilsdotter, the first chosen of Auril. Her background was that there was once a small village living south of the World's Edge mountains, and after a hard year a soothsayer warned of a terrible winter to come, and that the only way to avoid it was to offer a sacrifice. Young Safya, just a child, was chosen as the sacrifice because she was born with sorcerous powers she couldn't fully control or understand, and the superstitious villagers didn't trust arcane magic. Taking inspiration from the real-life Incan Capacocha ritual, the villagers fed her drugs to ease her fear and her pain and her resistance, led her to a mountain summit in the Spine of the World mountains, and left her to freeze to death, the drugs preventing her from following them back down the mountain as she passed out on the verge of overdose. But something happened, rather than freezing to death in her sleep, she awoke after a time, shivering in the cold, the drugs having wiped from her memory all but her first name and her knowledge of language and speech. Several digits were lost to frostbite, but as a blizzard set in she found a cave where a snow leopard and her cubs laired, and was taken in by them. From them she learned to hunt and scraped by, barely surviving in the mountain's harshness, but growing stronger from each trial. Eventually she encountered some of the tribesfolk living in the mountains, joining with them and learning of human society, perhaps learning the name and faith of Auril. Upon reaching adulthood she was taken in by a treant druid of Auril with snow white bark and red leaves and sap (think of the Weirwood trees from A Song of Ice and Fire) whose animal companion was a flock of crows and ravens that nested in his branches and hollows, and who he sent out to spy on the world and relay information back to him. He took her in and formally trained her as a druid of Auril. This treant believed that humans had upset the natural order, with their cutting of trees, their overharvesting of animals, and their abuse of fire, and believed that only a long, harsh winter would wipe them out like so many termites and restore things to the way they should be.

[@Valasilphukiir]

3: Safya, now taking the last name Aurilsdotter, had many adventures of her own, uniting the humans, orcs, goblinoids, giants, and other residents of the mountains through conquest, destroying those who refused to worship Auril, and delving into the tombs and crypts of the Spine of the World, ancient, hidden edifices dating as far back as the creator races and robbing them of their dark secrets. Of course, one of her first conquests in Auril's name was to descend to the lowlands, where she wiped out the town that had birthed her and offered her up as sacrifice, never knowing who of the townsfolk were her birth parents, but she most likely killed them, taking those who agreed to follow Auril up to the mountains. For all these feats, or perhaps for the feat I'm about to relay, Auril herself put a portion of her divine essence within Safya's soul making her the Frostmaiden's first Chosen, and in many ways perhaps her last. As her greatest feat, using both sorcerous and druidic magic, Safya was able to capture and imprison a divine pheonix, perhaps using the artifact known as Thakorsil's Seat, and the Chosen drained its everburning lifeforce completely, in a magical ritual which would allow her to be reborn, much like the pheonix, the next winter after she was killed, birthed by a worshipper of Auril. Thus just as summer may banish the winter for a time only to see it return, the PCs could kill Safya only to have her reborn in a new body with all of the memories and abilites of the old one, to renew the work of Auril, and come adolescence to get revenge on the PCs. This cycle of death and rebirth, much like the avatar from The Last Airbender, would continue until the Netherese archwizard Aumvor the Undying cast Aumvor's Soulshatter on Safya, causing her soul and the shard of Auril's power within it to be broken into several pieces. Though each piece would itself be born anew, none of these children of Auril had any of Safya's memories, and only a hint of her power, none being Chosen. It is my headcannon that, guided by Auril herself, the mother of the three priestesses from Icewind Dale II used her magic to gather these shards, giving birth to three daughers who each had a share of Auril's soul, though she was killed before she was able to gather the rest and perform a ritual to bind their souls together and thus give birth to Safya, Auril's Chosen, once again. It is also my headcannon that the Chosen from the 5th edition adventure, Hedrun Arnsfirth, was born with one of these Chosen soul-fragments, hence becoming Auril's Chosen so easily and prior to even worshipping Auril.

[@Valasilphukiir]

4: I made a PC named Annaya Aurilsdotter for a campaign where each PC was from a different plane of existence and was banished to a black-hole-like plane where one could easily be sent but none could return from by any known magic. This plane was a desert world, and according to our DM we learned through the course of the campaign it was the first of all planes created by the original creator deity who created the multiverse and all its accompanying overdeities. Here the original deity sundered reality and chose to lose her power in grief after being forced to destroy her firstborn mortal creations, causing the planar distortions that prevented escape, and creating a world where divine spells didn't work and other magic functioned abnormally. Not my first character (that was an Ash Genasi ninja with a bladed chain akin to the Dark Prince from Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones), the PCs later allied with Annaya, a fallen priestess of Auril who unbeknownst to her carried a shard of the Chosen soul within her, and thus some of Auril's divine power even in this realm where divine Magic didn't work - I classed her as a Holy Monk / White Dragon Shaman (3.5 edition), thus she had the ability to turn undead, smite, and channel divine magic into a dragon-like breath of cold, a healing touch, or several divine auras, without actually casting any spells or being the forbidden cleric class. She was sent to that world after, in some fit of madness or mind-control by an unseen force (strongly suspected to be the original creator deity, who wanted her sent to the first of all worlds to fulfill some purpose) she tore out the throat of a fellow Aurilite priestess (unbeknownst to her another carrier of a shard of the Chosen Soul), and at the last second her sentence changed from execution to banishment to the plane of no return.

[@Valasilphukiir]

5: Annaya's was a tragic tale, found abandoned as a baby to freeze to death (or perhaps birthed my the will of Auril with no parents at all, as no footsteps led from the cradle of ice she was found crying in in the frozen wilderness) she was taken in by priests of Auril, looking up to the priestess she would later kill as her big sister and role model. She was traumatized after being tasked with forcing the conversion of a dwarf tomb raider and trespasser in their territory to Auril's worhip, by tying him nude to an X-shaped frame exposed to the elements until he either died of cold or converted (at which point he would be taken in from the cold and welcomed in their family) - being a dwarf he was too stubborn to convert, and also too hardy to die quickly, and so for days the surprisingly gentle and sensitive Annaya begged him to convert and join their family for his own sake, until in the end, driven mad by his ordeal, the dying dwarf agreed to forsake his own gods, but mind numbed as his life left his body he didn't have the clarity of thought to devote himself to Auril - he couldn't form the thoughts or the worlds, and he perished before Annaya could cut him down, leaving the young Annaya to doubt her faith as all the pain and suffering had been for nothing - no one was saved. This trauma was only exceeded when she came-to from apparent mind control, realizing the blood of her sister and role-model stained her teeth and coated her face, the throat of the one closest to her torn out by Annaya's jaws. When cast to the desert plane, the first of all worlds, she was sent from an icy paradise into burning perdition. Unaccustomed to the desert heat and unwelcome by the natives she was forced to flee into a waterless region of desert known as the Anvil of the Sun, where she nearly perished, until, her mount dead and herself unconscious and reliving her worst moments in a fever dream, she was saved by another exile, a knight from Greyhawk's world of Oerth. She was taken in by him and taught the teachings of the first creator god, who on this plane went by the name Death, and slowly began to heal from her wounds both physical and emotional. For a time she reconciled her two faiths, stating "There is no God but Death, and Auril is her daughter," but adventuring with the PCs she became the bearer of an artifact that could change one's alignment, and perhaps their very soul. She attempted to use it on an ancient vampire lord, but sensing her misgivings and crises of faith, the vampire turned the tool against her, overpowered her will, and changed her for what would become the rest of her life. Now known as Annaya the Apostate, the twisted woman now believed in nothing, and though her comrades managed to slay the vampire lord by forcing him into his own field of disintegration, Annaya soon found death at the tentacles of a colossal mummified kraken known as a crawling apocalypse, her Auril-given immunity to paralysis (dragon-shaman class ability) failing her as the undead abomination first paralyzed her as the party tried to escape, and then crushed her before they could return and save her (in actuality I had merely forgotten my character was immune to paralysis, only remembering after she died, but it was a fitting end, as her faith in Auril and in herself was gone, so too were the powers granted by that faith). But as the god known as Death revealed at the very end of the campaign, the plane of no return did have a method of escape: when one died on that plane their soul would eventually be reborn, either on that world or elsewhere, and perhaps could be guided back to their home plane by Death, and so the shard of Auril's power and of Safya's and later Annaya's soul, may one day be reborn on Toril, and perhaps one day Safya could become whole again, or Annaya's soul find peace.

[@vexjaeger4314]

Has someone that has never played D&D (but is DYING to) I found it interesting that this Ice goddess could also have been this evil dark Fey goddess. Like maybe be there really IS only one Pantheon of Gods but they have taken multiple identities. I’d imagine this would be useful for a God, I mean in our world, there are many many forgotten gods. Gods Who’s worshipers have died out. If worship is what fuels a gods immortality and power. Being forgotten is akin to dying for them. (If they can not be out right killed) but having multiple identities would be a smart back up. So say one sect of worshipers are utterly whipped out and the name of that form is forgotten, tbey have another “skin” they can step into. Kinda like how the Greek god were transformed into the Roman for the most part

[@Katspearl]

I'm also thinking the same for my current campaign! I think her being Fey makes sense

[@gholamdapantaloonsniffer8218]

That is actually the only way to fully kill a god in D&D. You can destroy their manifested body in battle for 3d100 years and then it grows back, but their presence is still there. Where as if you end up destroying any memory of them via a wish spell, they will never come back technically as there would be no one who remembers them and so they would not ever be powerful enough to regenerate and so perish forever

[@MLPDethDealr32]

Talos went to Atmora and became Tiber Septim, " Whose breathe is long winter!!" Red Legions for i love you!!"

[@TheArkLich]

Auril is probably my favorite deity of the Forgotten Realms next to the Red Knight. I'm really stoked to play Rime of the Frostmaiden. Now if only I didn't have to rely on homebrew stuff for ice-based classes and spells...

[@christophersteeves9435]

Dude this is probably one of my favorite videos you have done, which is really saying something cause you make great stuff!

[@jevanking4768]

“Long wind whipped white hair” now say it 5 times fast

[@therainbowlyon9980]

@@qold5900 yes

[@kkTeaz]

@@therainbowlyon9980 nO

[@creed6810]

You know. My favourite character I made was basically in short terms a knight from the far north on a quest to reforge a very powerful sword of ice scattered throughout the land. It would be extremely fun and interesting if I used him in this kind of campaign XD

[@Farison1987]

You say Umberlee and Auril are "really good friends". I think its more like secret lovers ;)

[@placeholdername3818]

Really good friends like Achilles and Patroclus

[@DragonGunzDorian]

I like this.

[@keatonr776]

Except for the secret part

[@lysander3262]

Oh my god, they were roommates....

[@wodash666]

I added auril to my campaign 2 months ago, and now she is appearing on an official campaign, i could'n be more lucky :D

[@zeroenna8554]

I feel like the discrepancies between 4th and 5th editions can be explained easiest as an attempt to retcon as much of 4th edition away as possible.

[@richperez22]

I have a player that has never failed to make a friend instead of fighting, even Tiamat

[@bodaciouschad]

Ah, Steven Gregsson, I presume? Do they sing and dance about, like a rotund bedazzled Shantae?

[@splitairplane289]

I have a respect that player

[@CPTBeanMan]

Please explain.

[@xenomorph_starx3696]

must be homebrew of some kind

[@masc6287]

@@CPTBeanMan Evolutional Blades is making a joke reference to Steven Universe

[@Redimus]

I want to play a bard and seduce Auril. I want to play a fire genasi name Joeli Bill. I want him to have a steam powered motorcycle, a heavily modified magical lute, and a ridiculous pompadour. I want Joeli Bill to ride his steampunk crotch-rocket into Auril's throne room and start shredding anachronistic power ballads on his magical instrument till Auril either agrees to go on a date with him or kills him. Both outcomes are acceptable. The act of smashing a flying, magic/alchemic vehicle into any goddess' living room means your character wins D&D automatically. Everything after that is epilogue.

[@iAppleKiller]

Perfectly timed upload to fall asleep with d&d story's. I love it.

[@LilithLonelyHeart]

Auril... ugh gives me a flashback of Auril Temple from Icewind Dale 2 and her followers... well we didn't have to kill them off to get to Sherincal but still, they weren't nice folks to be around

[@kevinferreira6608]

Man, what a beautiful multi-layered deity.

[@Shadouga]

The bulk of my DnD adventuring has taken place in Phandelver and so I've never even heard of the Frost Maiden or this Owl-esque creature before now, but I'll be damned if owls aren't my favorite animals and this thing looks TIGHT. Owls seriously make some of the best villains/guides/mentors/supporting roles in fantasy titles, I almost want to join forces with it

[@Eduardo-pk9qb]

So, the white witch from narnia.

[@Zhroomy]

But worse.

[@Carewolf]

And original plan for Elsa in Frozen ;)

[@kkTeaz]

@@Carewolf hol up

[@LeoxandarMagnus]

I just got through reading The Crystal Shard for the first time, so I am excited to see what’s coming up in this adventure.

[@brandond.7768]

Bro...you may want to look into doing your own adventures or making your own D&D content. I mean you have a decent following.

[@nicholasreed9627]

I am VERY excited for this adventure. I play a lot of one-on-one with my wife in the Forgotten Realms. Wrapping up "Avernus Rising" (AL Campaign) and then going to run through "Legacy of the Crystal Shard" as a sort of thematic prequel to "Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden."

[@zachariahmola6841]

I wish I had a wife to "play one on one with" 😥

[@TankyCrobat]

Auril was my character's deity (Bardlock) in the homebrew campaign my DM created. This campaign has been going on for two years, and we're just about to wrap things up in the next couple months. Although in this campaign, there are subtle changes to her based on my own character's actions, I'm very excited to see how things end.

[@project4061]

Two things: 1) The next multiple episode topic I want covered are the Primordials. 2) It would be awesome to chat with you and other fans of your content on Discord! I love learning about D&D's lore!

[@morganlefey2431]

Perimenopausal woman: “Oh, Lady of Winter’s Fury, I would undergo thy test-“ Auril: “Yeah, yeah, you’re in.” Woman: “But I didn’t even-“ Auril: “I SAID YOU’RE IN”

[@alazdmfirst5980]

All right this is very late. However, thanks for the ideas sir. I'll be incorporating some of it very soon as my players will be facing off with Auril a second time in the campaign. Each appearance means another form as well as any previously encountered. Spell reflection is an absolute must have! Keepup the amazing work.

[@luffysh]

I really like that plot twist about the fey goddess you hinted... Could be cool to actually make her impersonate Auril in the game...

[@razzelmire2008]

The designers confirmed that Auril is the Queen of Air and Darkness in the Feywild. She has two aspects in the Realms; one as the evil ice goddess and one as the Unseelie Queen

[@infernocanuck]

23:30 "Permanent, because... you die" LOL

[@fabled5906]

I made Auril and the Queen of Air and Darkness one and the same of my Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign. Just to add some spice to the story. So hearing you throw out that theory makes me very happy lol.

[@FreedomAndPeaceOnly]

Summon your Ex-Wifes everyone to counter this Goddess! Let the Furies of Hell fight each other!

[@hyperbannana9262]

What is your profile picture from

[@FreedomAndPeaceOnly]

@@hyperbannana9262 That is 'Alleria Windrunner' from World of Warcraft, but I forgot the specific artist in this case.

[@hyperbannana9262]

@@FreedomAndPeaceOnly ah thank you thought i recognized her from somewhere

[@crisoliveira2644]

Hey, Rhexx, take a look at Auril's symboy in 5e. The crystal actually forms the diamond itself.

[@TheInsomniaddict]

That Auril symbol of "just" the snowflake still had a diamond pattern, it was just made by edges of the ice crystal. 20:55 So are all Korean girls priestesses of Auril?

[@ts25679]

I'm trying to find the art at 17:01 & 23:07, does anyone know what it's called and who the artist?

[@09Dragonite]

This is such a cool freaking character and I'm prepping to run a 1 shot of an introductory battle with Auril's weakened 1st form avatar so I absolutely LOVE this lore! I can use some of these abilities that aren't mentioned in the DM Guide to tune up (or down) the combat scenarios for my party of 3. I look forward to traversing the Dale and luring this party into a (possible) eternal and icy torment as coldlight walkers!

[@thecamarrow02]

Auril is my favorite D&D villain and have a Gods of Fury homework assignment side quest in my current Strixhaven campaign. According to RotFM, Auril and Umberlee had a falling out as Auril was turning more of the sea into motionless sheets of ice much to her dismay. I expanded upon this to be Auril’s motive for the Everlasting Rime as her best friend had turned on her with the help of Talos and Malar because Auril’s greed and lust to expand her winter past the North grew to where it blinded her and adds to the isolation aspect as she’s in Grimskalle plotting her revenge

[@rickyevans2697]

18:14 The Queen of Air and Darkness looks a lot like Polgara the Sorceress, from The Belgaraid by David Eddings.

[@digunder14]

well, i'm now officially even MORE hyped for the upcoming adventure

[@2ndGenBen]

Ive always wanted an exploratory dive on the frosty wastes of Forgotten Realms

[@pernillekaaber8335]

Mind blowing! You just explained the entire ASOIAF backstory and symbolism

[@squirrelknight9768]

Quote "Kisses seem to be a recurring theme with oral" end quote Uhm... yea

[@SyggNielsen-jg3hf]

Skathi. Dead from Mayhem's only girl.

[@jackeilhigh]

Hall of the frostmaiden is soo beautiful. I wanna live there lol

[@Kurai_69420]

4th edition yeeted Talos harder than the Thalmor, OOF

[@markwalker4485]

She like winter and ice would be more True Neutral. Cold doesn’t care. Neat about the colour blue. A significant colour up north in the snow it tells you how cold it is. If snow is blue it’s bloody cold! And her hair would be a fluctuating colour of red , blue and green. I work up north I kinda know this.

[@bignelly9476]

Just getting into the very early stages of this campaign with my friends. Really enjoying my time so far.

[@RyuSpike]

I have a character who is a conquest paladin with Auril as his patron goddess. He is a Levistus Tiefling born from the frostbitten corpse of his mother who made a deal with the devil to avenge the men that violated her. Giving her amazing ice powers that can kill any man with ease. After extracting her revenge, she tries to escape from fulfilling her side of the deal by conceiving the devil's son. She thought that she was successful, but there was a twist! She was already pregnant from her rapists, and the devil had already claimed the unborn child as his own upon making the deal. The child actually being the source of her power as her body heat was being drained by the baby. Eventually, the woman became to cold to function and eventually freezes to death. Body turned black as her baby is forced to crawl out from the brittle corpse in order to be born. He was found and raised at a temple of Auril. It was not a happy childhood and he is often outcasted by other thanks to demonic appearance, steaming red skin, and haunting blue irises floating in a sea of black for eyes. As he grew older, Auril approached him in a dream. She told him of his origins and how his mother basically sold his soul to a devil which dooms him to an afterlife in hell. She offers to buy up his soul so that he can be given a chance to have a better afterlife, but he must become her conqueror and enforce her law in her domain. Figuring that being a cruel goddess's pet is better than being a servant of hell, he fights in her name. He was given the name Frostborn and the rest is history. If he survives Into the Abyss, this is the next adventure I want him to be a part of. Possibly with the goal of winning his soul back from her.

[@asherdevin]

Wouldn't that be counterproductive? He gave up his soul to the goddess so that she can keep it, thus stopping him from an eternity in hell. If he takes it back then he spends an eternity in hell. Not that Frostborn can't change his mind, maybe I missed something or something happened in the campaign, maybe she lied about hell for all I know. It just feels like a complete 180 for the character and possibly even turning him from a paladin to a crappy fighter, as this may cost him her favor and he'd lose access to all of his paladin magic.

[@RubiRenegade]

KZbinr: "If you get there, you can't flirt with these clerics" Me: "*Can't*, huh?"

[@Valasilphukiir]

Challenge accepted!

[@RubiRenegade]

@person person With *sacred flames and call lightning*

[@StaticPatch8070]

Her clarics can't be flirted with. THE BARDS ENTER THE CHAT

[@No-ms3hj]

There's literally nothing that a bard would not try and fuck

[@woodrowpritchett7026]

been listening to a lot of these and they're so helpful for my DM antics

[@norfemignissius4936]

Winter is comming... AND IT'S COLD ! - That hearthstone card, 20XX

[@johndavidson2365]

I heard in the last parade, the winner tried to give her a little tongue. The last we saw he was saying 'stuck stuck stuck, come on guys dont leave me guys guys'. He was double dog dared to do it!

[@verdantis9960]

Love Auril. Some great artwork in this video, shame you don't have the artist names down, would love to get a good look at the art outside of the video. Thanks for making a video about Auril.

[@jayhit4212]

You make my week with these videos

[@alantremonti1381]

Hhhwind-hhhwhipped hhhwhite hair. That's the good stuff, right there.

[@Janos1989]

I can imagine a level 15+ wizard strong arming her by threatening to kill the entire population of the few cities that worship her. Set up an invisible glyph in a hidden location in or near each city. The condition for activating is someone attempting to remove it or the casting wizard failing to reset it before a 1 month time period. The spell the glyph activates would have to be some kind of contagious disease, maybe the creation of a feral ghoul. With that set up, a single wizard could threaten to destroy 99% of her worshipers if she doesn’t keep him both safe and happy.

[@Witchkart]

The Ice Queen in Christian Andersons version is a Fairy queen that got transformed. Maybe this is an analogie

[@neverendingparty2060]

*Stands on chair, clears throat and projects voice outward* Fellow Geeks, Nerds, Dorks, Story Tellers, and Basement Dwellers, I propose we make this man a lore master. World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls and Dungeons and Dragons is among his portfolio and he is knowledgeable in them all

[@TheMusclesGlasses7]

Woo!! It’s Rhex time!!

[@ixisnyx6860]

Think I posted this in the last video but just to cover my bases. Would love to see a video on the yuan-ti. We got info on the naga and they are neat and it touches on the yuan ti but there is still quite a bit of really cool stuff about them on their own.

[@fuzzydragon]

Auril and Umberlee get along really well....till ine day Auril ate the last slice of cake Umberlee had been saving in the fridge that totaly had a postit with her name on it.

[@venkelos6996]

A nice video, and fun with all the 2e/3e references, but I am surprised not a single mention of the Ring of Winter, and Artus Cimber. Maybe you just didn't want to spoil Tomb of Annihilation, or Storm Kings Thunder, but as an artifact of Auril, and possibly one of Her Chosen, I expected some reference. Oh well. Still fun, and thanks for the video.

[@TheLordHighNoob]

I am extremely thankful for your videos. You're like the Faerunian Deity of Lore. Dee-Em, the Knowledgeable

[@Real_Iron_Smith]

I always love your videos on powerful entities like gods!

[@jadenlustre4612]

I was hesitant to click on the video obviously for spoilers, but the (No Spoilers) made me happy

[@bleach-kun]

Pro Gamer Move: gain immunity to frost and cold, then flirt with her until she either gives up, or is seduced.

[@danylerasu4917]

Anyone know where the image at 16:56 is from?

[@mith59]

Looks like it's on Artstation, "Fairy Queen" by Marie Magny (gotta love google reverse image search)

[@Finn14029]

4:03 when there isn't ice cream in the freezer

[@laffuntilucry]

I now want to play as a priest or priestess of Auril. That was an amazing video!

[@chaostivooo3699]

I dont think they removed the diamond. I looked at the snowflake again and it seems blended in the pattern. Thoughts? 18:09

[@MarkATorres1989]

I'm unsure which of the two I despise more. Auriel or Umberlee. Though in a current Icewind Dale campaign I am in. My character's backstory was being someone that reincarnated after being 'sacrificed' by the town for Auriel. Now... my Rage fuel Barbarian is out hunting any and all priests and followers of Auriel. Heck I'm surprise my own party members are willing to aid me in my insane crusade against the Frostmaiden.

[@K_i_t_t_y84]

This was super useful, thank you!

[@idontno6d105]

could you do a video on class levels higher than 20th level? you mentioned 30th level multiple times in this video and I'm curious as to what power that exactly entails. Also I like the god lore, there seems to be less of that sort of thing in 5e from what I've seen. As for individual gods or goddesses, how about Set next? I hear he's been up to some stuff.

[@silkysnow6793]

I personally dont know much about the previous editions, but there is a very well made addon that includes Epic Prestige classes, which allows PCs to reach 30th level. Its called the Epic Legacy Core Rulebook by 2C gaming and I recommend checking it out

[@fake21694]

Why you gotta expose my waifu like this

[@FreedomAndPeaceOnly]

Auril: _" I-it's not as if I like you, b-baka!! HMPF !! "_

[@reyntime8735]

*encases you in ice to preserve your beauty*

[@omenpyro458]

You do know that the 5th edition symbol has a diamond shape made by the snowflake, yes? 18:05

[@atibamaule]

@22:04 any idea what Auril has use for gold?

[@EdgytheHedgy]

If ublook at the 5th ed symbol for the frost maiden. Theirbis still a diamond in the background. The arms of the snowflakes form it. Its a little subtle hint

[@nuevaspirit]

Frantically writes descriptions for a paladin/cleric who’s goal is to convert the Frostmaiden to good by showing her true love

[@zerotwoeto3123]

Your the best DND KZbinr out there

[@KawaiiHimeS2]

If she kisses a cleric with cold resistance, does he die the same way?

[@rageostrich9562]

tenho quase certeza que sim

[@rageostrich9562]

tipo tu pode ter a resistencia a qualquer coisa, é um efeito de morte e nao existe resistencia pra isso, tipo aquela magia de nvl 9 que mata qualquer coisa

[@mauriciomartell2433]

I hadn't realized how much D&D inspired Shiva Eden's fight in FF14 😲

[@wilsonkok4754]

Rhexx, just a question - if Talos truly is an aspect of Gruumsh, wouldn't that make Gruumsh one of the most powerful gods in Faerun? He would technically be a Greater Deity in two different aspects after all

[@SMunro]

My Barbarian Cleric Tundra would worship her, but he's Neutral Good.

[@TankieBoi]

"No Spoilers" Me, still playing the campaign and in the frost castle place and my party convinced they can beat the Frost Maiden as a final boss even though it's a 25th level spellcaster god entity:

[@throwabrick]

I have decided to make the Queen of Air and Darkness to be the same god as Auril, and she is in conflict with Talos while also fighting in the Feywild, so is overstretched. This is all part of the plan of Lolth, who wants to return to the Feywild by taking the Crown of the Winter Court.