The Sanctuary of the Frost Mother

Four leagues beneath the highest ice shelf of Mount Fenrir, hidden behind a colossal curtain of frozen glacial meltwater that had stood undisturbed since the First Age, lay the most sacred sanctuary of the Lycan race: the Grotto of the Frost Mother. As Gunnar and Astrid passed through the narrow fissure in the basalt rock, the screaming blizzard outside faded into an echoing, cathedral-like silence. The temperature within the cavern…