🧬 ORIGIN & DOMAIN

The Ishvahnu were once Emserai—ocean-blooded, storm-sung—until the glacial winds consumed them. Those who survived the deep freeze were remade beneath silence. Their homeland, also called Ishvahnu, is carved from ice and memory—glacier vaults, lost cities, and echo-halls that only the snow remembers.

🏛️ CULTURE & STRUCTURE

• Clan-Survival: Memory is law, carved into frostbone totems
• Silence Keeps: Halls where names are sung but never spoken
• Freezemark Rite: A child’s breath must survive three nights of solitude beneath aurora
• Heartstone Carving: Grave-grown totems hum with ancestral sorrow

🩸 LINEAGE & BLOODLINES

• Heartstone Bearers – Grief-tied wanderers marked by keening charms
• Frostcallers – Eclipse-born heirs who see snow-spirits and never lie
• Children of the Sleepwalker – Prophets who speak in dreams and wake speaking the dead’s last words

🧊 APPEARANCE & STYLE

• Skin: Blue-gray, aurora-kissed, glacier-pale
• Eyes: Mist-white, storm-blue, frost-green
• Hair: Silver-ash, white-blonde, snow-black
• Style: Fur-lined mantles • Bone-scale armor • Slush-ink tattoos that glow in cold

🔮 MAGIC & BELIEF

• Coldbinding – Freeze memory into ice; melt it to rewrite truths
• Glacier Songs – Fracture vaults, call frost spirits
• The Breathless God – Buried under the ice, half-dragon, all-silence
• Void-Winter Doctrine – Maesa’ka was born not in fire, but in snow

🛠️ ROLE / CRAFT / VOCATION

• Bone-Singers – Crafters of mourning flutes
• Name-Weavers – Tattoo artists who mark grief and revelation
• Glacier Priests – Spirit-binders who tend to the god-ice
• Silence Archivists – Carve forgotten names into voidstone

🎙️ LANGUAGE / TRADITIONS / RITES

• Languages: Frost-syllabic chants • Whisper-script • Grave-glyphs
• Traditions: Speak no names in winter • Carry grief-totems bound in skin • Never return to the Freezemark cave
• Rites: Night Silence • Naming by Echo • Ash-Frost Feast for the dead

🧬 KNOWN INDIVIDUALS / MODERN FIGURES

• Orva Hjald – Death-priestess whose chants halted a glacier
• The Ash-Singer – Wears no face; their flute is carved from frozen breath
• Child-of-Thorns – Young Frostcaller; her heartstone weeps when others lie
• Unnamed Sleepwalker – A child seen in mirrors before prophetic catastrophe

🪞 MYTHOS MEMORIES

The Ishvahnu did not survive the north. They became it. Their memories are not history—they are living things, frozen and singing beneath every step. The wind speaks. The silence answers. And the Ishvahnu remember what the rest of the world has tried to forget.