Ulutiu

Ulutiu: The Lord in the Ice

Symbol: Necklace of blue and white crystals
Home Plane: Astral Plane
Alignment: LN
Portfolio: Arctic dwellers, Glaciers, Polar environments
Domains: Animal, Cold, Law, Ocean, Protection
Worshipers: Arctic dwellers, druids, historians, leaders, teachers, rangers
Aliases: N/A
Cleric Alignments: LG, LN, LE
Favored Weapon: Harpoon of the Cold Sea (short spear)

History/Relationships: Ulutiu (oo-loo-tee-oo), the slumbering god of glaciers, the polar environment, and arctic dwellers, is lawful neutral. His titles include the Lord of the Ice and the Eternal Sleeper. Long ages ago, Annam, the head of the giant pantheon, discovered that Ulutiu was having an affair with his wife. To save her from Annam’s wrath, Ulutiu voluntarily went into exile, sinking himself deep into the cold sea to the north of Faerûn. His enchanted necklace froze the water in an ever expanding mass of ice, forming the Great Glacier. Although he has all but withdrawn from the world, the peoples of the Great Glacier and other arctic lands still worship him. They are often the leaders of their tribes and pass down the accumulated lore of their peoples from generation to generation.

Auril, the Frostmaiden, is siphoning power from him, slowly as not to wake him, but she is continually weakening him so that eventually he will die, then she may subsume his portfolio.

Dogma: No person is the superior of another, with the exception of Ulutiu’s clerics, who are his representatives in this world and who are set in positions of leadership to pass on his wisdom to his people. Because animals share the same emotions, thoughts, and mortals as people (but express them differently) they should be respected on pain of Ulutiu’s wrath. The villagers of the Great Glacier also believe that magic from any source is blasphemous and those that practice it should be shunned and driven away.

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The Church of Ulutiu: The Ice Hunters are a people who wandered off across Abeir-Toril's polar ice cap to the North above the Spine of the World from the peoples of the Great Glacier over a millennia ago. They bear the closest resemblance in conduct and philosophy to the Nakulutiuns of the Great Glacier. (See FR14, The Great Glacier, for more information on the Nakulutiun people.) The Ice Hunters worship Ulutiu and the beast totem great spirits, including Clever Oomio the Gray Seal, Grandfather Walrus, Great White Bear, and Pindalpau-pau the Reindeer Mother.

In many ways, the Ice Hunters' regard for Ulutiu and their totem animals parallels the regard of the Uthgardt barbarian tribes for Uthgar and the Uthgardt beast totems. Ulutiu and the Ice Hunter beast totems are served by Ice Hunter specialty priests of Ulutiu, known as iceguardians, and shamans. The iceguardians are able to cast all wizard spells with a cold (not a life-draining) effect as mages, but only function as mages of half their actual shaman level. This gives the most ancient iceguardians limited use of powerful ice, snow, and cold magic.

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