Auril
| Game background | |
|---|---|
| Title(s) | Frostmaiden Icedawn The Cold Goddess |
| Home plane | 2E: Winter's Hall (Pandemonium) 3E: Fury's Heart |
| Power level | Intermediate |
| Alignment | Neutral Evil |
| Portfolio | Cold, Ice, Winter |
| Superior | Talos |
| Design details | |
Auril (/ˈɔːrɪl/ AW-ril), the Frostmaiden, is the goddess of cold and winter in the Forgotten Realms, for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Ed Greenwood created Auril for his home Dungeons & Dragons game set in the Forgotten Realms.
Auril first appeared within Dungeons & Dragons as one of the deities featured in Ed Greenwood's article "Down-to-earth Divinity" in Dragon #54 (October 1981). Here she is described as the Frostmaiden, goddess of cold, a neutral evil demigoddess from the plane of Pandemonium with a connection to Talos. Auril is described as one of “The Gods of Fury,” which is what these four gods are known as collectively: "Talos is served by Auril, Umberlee, and Malar." Auril is commonly worshipped by neutral evil magic-users, thieves, and clerics; Greenwood notes, "If a DM is partial to variant “specialist” NPC magic-users ... A worshipper of Auril would have ice and cold-related spells doubled in power, while spells related to the other elements would be half-strength."
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