Frostclaw Clan

The Frostclaw Clan, or Stam Hrimklo in Gardic, is one of the Five Great Clans of Frysgard and the only one of them to be mostly composed of vulpines. Their chieftain, as of 10110 DC, is Drifa Frostclaw, who currently holds the title of High Mystic of the Nordguard.

History

The Frostclaw Clan is descended from one or more of several magi-monastic orders who left the Vul Empire in pursuit of dedicating their lives to auratic studies in near-total isolation. These orders would each found a monastery hidden somewhere in the Nordheim Mountains. Of these six monasteries, five of them are accounted for in records as of 10110 DC. Only one of those five is still inhabited (and its inhabitants fiercely resist all attempts of visitors to communicate), three were found abandoned and lie in ruins, and one was completely destroyed with only cursory evidence of it ever having been there. The Frostclaws and other lesser vulpine clans in Frysgard posit that they are most likely descended from those who abandoned the three vacant but still mostly-standing monastery sites.

Politics

Historically, the Frostclaw are the only Great Clan to never have held sole dominion over Frysgard, but have always sided with the victor in each of the pre-Nordguard clan wars, which has made the other clans wary of making enemies of them over time. As of 10110 DC, their official stance on colonial matters mirrors the Whitemane Clan, though there are rumors afoot that they may shift their position to align with the Irontooth Clan instead if relations with Mithrosi settlers continue to deteriorate.