An oversized codex

Ice Weaving

Tags: immobile, fragile

A book, about 2 feet by 3 feet, just over 6 inches tall when closed. The cover is made of silvery cedarwood planks. The sheets are made of fine vellum, stretched from the hides of some enormous beast.

The pages are full of calligraphy, large and precise, with many diagrams showing meditative poses and strange geometric patterns related to heat, water, and ice.

To unlock it, you must:

• decipher the text, written in a form of the Rime Lord's alphabet;
• spend months studying the text and practicing the techniques therein;
• risk permanently damaging your health as you master them.

Ice Weaving

When you will dark ice to form, lose 1 HP, +1 HP for each of the following you desire:

• It's enough to make a small wall or encase a person (else, it's arm's-reach at most)
• It's hard as stone
• It's solid to spirits, able to block/harm/hinder them

Then roll.

• On a success with a 6, pick 2.
• On a success with no six, pick 1 — or pick 2 and lose 2 more HP.
  • It forms quickly, even violently (else, it takes minutes, even hours)
  • It forms at up to near range (else, it forms at only hand range)
  • Its shape is as intricate as you can imagine (else, it's just a crude block)

The ice persists until it's broken, melted by intense heat, or you let it melt. You cannot regain the spent HP while it persists.