Full Item Description
The same size and weight as a regular bastard sword, or hand-and-a-half sword, this blade is unique in that from tip to pommel the entire weapon is made of translucent ice. To protect the swordsman’s hand the haft is wrapped in thick leather.

History
Brumborion was an average barbarian who did something rather remarkable, and since the deed and his eventual death, the tale has grown in the telling. Hailing from the Ice Wolves tribe of the Saerithian hinterlands, Brumborion would have been content to spend his life stalking the elk, and raiding his neighbors and the soft elves of the lowlands. But fate intervened as it often unwantedly does. The shaman of the tribe, who had never really liked the barbarian, decided that he needed to go on a dangerous and trying quest.

While the stories tell of a paragon barbarian warrior hacking trolls into pieces, harnessing ice giants to pull his war sledge, and tossing furs with dozens of maidens, from Ilar Harjor to the Jokelsmorder. The true story is a single man facing the brutality of a hyperborean winter. Most of the things that sought to make Brumborion a meal ended up in his belly and skinned to help keep the warrior warm.

The barbarian found the grand ruins of a fallen empire and from those ruins he encountered one of the ghosts of the ice and was desperate for a weapon. During this part of the tale, Brumborion is visited by a potent god of ice, or draws the blade from the very ice of the land itself. What is known is that the sword retains it’s shape as easily as steel, and wont melt even in the face of extreme heat. The blade has been formed from a single unmarred piece of pure elemental ice, a solid representation of coldness.

Brumborion used the weapon to cut down the ghosts, dispelling them long enough to escape. On his return trip, the blade made quick work of the foes that assailed him. The shaman was shocked when the warrior returned from his quest clutching an obviously magical implement, his face haggard but his eyes bright as jewels. Brumborion was given the hand of the chieftan’s daughter as bride-prize and took the cheiftan’s place when the elderly warrior was slain by an ice dragon. The sword later became a symbol of Brumborion’s blood lineage, but was eventually lost when much of the Ice Wolf tribe was lost in a brutal series of raids that blossomed into a four year war with the Snow Falcons tribe.

Magic/Cursed Properties
Brumborion’s Sword is an exceptional hand and a half sword in terms of attack and damage. The weapon deals double or better damage against fire based creatures, and easily cuts through most armors, turning leather dry and brittle and metal more likely to shatter. This mostly comes from the fact that the sword is a barbarian weapon, and it defeats artificial armors since such things are uncommon among the tribes. Magical armors retain their bonuses, and magical metal armors keep half of their overall defense rating as well.

Redux of the Ice Brand / Ice sword trope. Inspired by a giant icicle found in holiday section at Wal-Mart that was rather well balanced and sword-like

Full Description
The Cristata are diminutive elementals having taken the form of small blue songbirds. They ride on winter winds, their bodies as vibrant blue as the deep sky. They are also delicate things, their feathers as brittle as snowflakes. They can survive the worst of winter gales but a few minutes in a warm hand can kill one as surely as a strike from a magical hammer.

Folklore and Superstitions
Seeing a Cristata is considered a sign of ill omen in some locations. The bird-elementals ride the tempestuous winds of winter storms, so seeing them is sometimes a warning of a winter storm approaching.

Killing a Cristata is also considered to be very bad luck, as it supposedly draws more of the elementals to the site where the other died. This is generally false, though someone willfully hunting and killing Cristata is likely to draw the unwanted attention of a Stamagast.

A Cristata appearing at a formal event is considered a good omen, as it ensures that despite adversity, good things will come as sure as spring follows winter. This is most often associated with weddings (endurance of love) funerals (passage of grief) and at child birthings (survival of the child).

It is rumored that eating a live Cristata will cure a fever. This is more likely to cause frostbite to the mouth and throat as the elemental is below freezing temperature.

If you kill a Cristata with a frozen piece of holy water, it will shatter into diamonds, sapphires, or some other cold colored stone. This is patently false, but the belief is common in areas of poverty.

Full Item Description
This item appears to be an ordinary silk hat, but it has the unusual power to animate normally unintelligent lumps of raw materials. This item appears usually around the winter holidays, it seems to ride in on the North Wind and is usually discovered by children.

History
The first recorded appearance of this item was in 1969 A.D. When it brought a pile of snow to life, much to the joy of the village children it began to sing and dance. It spread joy and warmed hearts, but was defeated by the coming spring. Some say this Wintery Artifact was crafted by the hands of Santa Clause himself. But its true origin is unknown. This hat has appeared on several winters following the Winter of ‘69 and has done similar things in villages across the globe. No one know when Frotsy’s legendary hat will strike.

Magic/Cursed Properties
This hat has the powers to animate lumps of snow, dirt, clay, slush, sand, salt, and similar materials if there is enough to form a roughly 5-foot-tall humanoid. The animated materials take on the appearance of a rounded man (furthering suspicions that Santa had a hand in it’s creation). The creature created is a Golem or Elemental with average human intelligence. It will sing and dance to entertain children, but also protects them. No one is sure what other powers this hat possesses, but many want to use them for evil (Including the infamous Jack Frost and Heatmeister).

(I found the Lyrics to the Frosty song on www.Christmas-Tree.com)

Full Description
Pirtuk men are short lived golems made of snow and ice. Their animation is based entirely on the Frost Shard buried deep in their torso. A Pirtuk Man has a basic humanoid form, a central body, two trunk like legs, and at least one spindly arm, but some have been seen with many more. The head is smallish and situated directly atop the torso, with no neck to be seen. The eyes are small and hard to discern, as they are either stone or large chips of ice buried in the head.

Additional Information
Initially created in the northland wastes of Atar, the first Pirtuk Men were nothing more than games of fancy. Atarian children created snowmen and it was a simply thing of magic charms to have some of these creations bounce and gambol around with the children. Usually a snowman would collapse once the Kam, the local term for a magus, stopped actively animating the heap of ice and snow. It isn’t known when the first Pirtuk man was created, but is is agreed that it was very likely an accident. By including a frost shard into the corpus of a snow man, the animating spell that moved the object became in a limited fashion, permanent. So long as a Pirtuk man remains frozen, it’s animation will endure.

Encounters and Combat
Most Pirtuk Men are wild, accidental creations. They instictively move north to avoid melting in the coming spring and summer months. Being of limited intellect, most Pirtuk men do not survive a single year. Encoutners with them are rare as most are more inclined to avoid the humans that created them. They cannot speak or make sound, but most understand the rudimentary language of their creator, meaing most Pirtuk men only speak the old Atari langauge of the Kam.

Fighting a Pirtuk man can be either murderously hard or childishly easy. Armed with fire, buckets of warm water, or similar spells a Pirtuk man offers as much resistance as a mundane snowman would. Against mundane weapons, he is nearly invulnerable. Arrows pass straight through, as do slashing and piercing weapons. Bludgeoning weapons like hammers and maces can only deal temporary damage as a Pirtuk man can use fallen snow to ‘heal’ it’s injuries. If it’s head is broken off, it can ball up another one, plop it atop it’s body, and be on it’s way.

Known Pirtuk Men
Frosty - Now nearly a decade old, Frosty is the pet Pirtuk of the Narr-atala village. This venerable pirtuk man is a sort of playmate and mascot for the children of the village to play with. This is seen as a good thing as the Pirtuk man, festooned with charms, branches, and a battered southerners hat is an attentive playmate. This has allowed the hunters to spend more time hunting, knowing that their children and wives are safe.

Tla-Gho-Ti - Also known as the Ice giant, Tla-Gho-Ti is a pirtuk man who has endured unknown years of existance. Each year it increases it’s mass, and is now more than 20 feet tall, possesses three boulder sized heads and at last count, 14 arms. Violent and paranoid as the Kam that created it, Tla-Gho-Ti is known to carry a cedar trunk that it uses as a club. On occassion, strange tracks are found, along with a hapless dead hunter or animal. Almost every bone will be broken in their body, having been hit like a golf ball with a tree trunk.

Bone-Chewer - Violent winds blowing across the ice shelves have stripped the snow pack from this Pirtuk man. All that remains are struts and rods of ice, pulsing with energy from the frost shard at the base of the head. Bone Chewer resembles nothing more than an icy skeleton wandering the ice pack.

Chur-Took - Basically translating as Spear Carrier, Chur-Took is one of a dozen Pirtuk men who have been together for several years. Animated by a coven of Kam, the Chur-Took Pirtuks are artificial solders. Each is armed with a curved wooden cudgel that has been magically shaped to resemble a curved scimitar. Lacking any sort of cutting edge, it is an ornamental club. The Chur-Took are used to protect the coven and their interests, though they refuse to harm children even if ordered to do so.