Species Name: Hoarfrost, Iceman, Snowman

The Hoarfrost were created by the crude and violent deities of the winterlands to dwell in their frozen domains. They are a primitive folk who have never seen the need to become more civilized, usually living in caves or abandoned ruins and hunting the surrounding regions with great skill.

Type: Humanoid Ice

Physical Traits: Hoarfrost are tall and stout, with females a bit smaller than males. Their skin is ice and may be toned toward light blue or white tones. They can alter their hands into large ice claw like appendages which do 2D4 of slash damage.

Height: 6 ft

Weight: 200 lbs

Abilities: Hoarfrost suffer no harm from being in a cold environment or from cold damage. They can shoot a 3 metre cone of frigid air shoots from his fingertips. Any creature in the area takes D4 points of cold damage per Hoarfrost  level. Alternately they can shoot projectile ice shards. These shards do 2D4 each of piercing damage. They can fire one dart plus one additional dart every 3rd level. Range of 30 metres +5 per level.

Mobility: Legs

Sensory Organs: Visual

Communication: Vocal

Reproduction: During the coldest days in winter Hoarfrosts reach their natural point of fertility. This time lasts for a few days, so they travel around the tundra, select a mate and then disappear when they have conceived. The children are then born the following winter after a full year of labour for the Hoarfrost mother.

INT: 3D6, WIS: 3D6, STR: 5D6, DEX: 3D6, CON: 4D6, CHA: 2D6, MR: 3D6, HPs: CON +D20, AC: 5

Orbit/Climate: See Earth

Feeding Habits: Omnivore

Lifespan: 900 years

Technology: 2

Culture: Standard. Diversified mix of kind and evil people. Most Hoarfrost are analytical, calculating and patient. They may seem slow to act, simply because they coldly judge any course of action before following through. With very little exposure to other cultures, Hoarfrost are typically prejudiced and fearful. Hoarfrost are savage and brutal, reflections of the feral deities who created them. They react with suspicion or open hostility toward unknown developments since they learn early on in childhood that the unknown is something to fear. If you understand the enemy, you have nothing to fear, for you know what needs to be done to overcome him. Yet among friends, Hoarfrost are much more relaxed and sociable, and enjoy dancing, singing, tale-telling, feasting, and other pastimes involving large numbers of people.

Few other races give them the time of day after having been so simplistically assessed, so their trading abilities are limited to races that can ignore their kneejerk judgments. Hoarfrost occasionally establish trade with other races, but typically keep to themselves. They find less-intelligent races grating and irritating to deal with (or rely upon) in the long term.

Hoarfrost have traditionally had poor relations with other races. Yet they cannot look to the civilized societies for aid, for such societies often displace Hoarfrost from their homelands in their relentless pursuit to colonize and settle new lands. The Hoarfrost never give up their homelands gently, and the history of Hoarfrost and civilization is a long, bloody tale of warfare and slaughter. Those few societies that understand and honour the Hoarfrost traditions and hunting grounds are still regarded with suspicion; the Hoarfrost have been tricked and deluded far too many times for them to openly accept offers of friendship and trade.

Government: Tribal

All Hoarfrost gain all the following free;

Cold Resistance - The character is completely immune to cold damage and cold effects, and can exist comfortably in conditions down to –88°C without having to make a CON save. Further in a cold environment he heals at phenomenal rates. He must concentrate for 1 minute uninterrupted to perform the following healing; restore 1 HP per INT, +1 per level per 10 minutes; reduce the damage and duration of drugs, toxins and poisons by 4% per INT, +1% per level and gives +1 to save per 4 INT; negate all pain for 1 minute per INT, +1 minute per level; or stabilize his condition (stops bleeding, binds wounds, etc.) for 15 minutes per level. He heals an additional 100% of his normal rate for every 5 degrees below 0 centigrade.