Knights of the Iron Glacier

This order was founded nearly two hundred years ago by an exiled general named Aengrist and his loyal band of knights and followers. Forced to flee their homeland after a particularly vicious coup, these knights spent several years wandering from outpost to outpost in the frostfell. They helped protect settlers against attacks by barbarians and orcs, but this activity was as much a justification for their continued purpose as anything else. As they traveled, word of their deeds grew. The knights gratefully accepted monetary rewards for their work but never demanded them.

It was at this time that a large band of orc barbarians, hungry for the knight's defeat, ambushed the group atop a vast glacier that carried inside it swaths of iron ore. The ambush was expertly laid, and General Aengrist died in the first moments of the battle. The death of their leader only enraged the knights, and they fought back with a fury that surpassed the rage of the orc barbarians and defeated them to the last. It was only in the aftermath that despair began to overtake the knights, until one charismatic knight by the name of Sarah Korlaskin rallied her fellow troops. She called upon them to honor the death of their general and this final great battle by putting an end to their wandering. She called upon them to build a great fortress at the edge of the iron-filled glacier, a fortress that would serve as both a memorial to their losses and as a bastion for fellow exiles and wandering warriors. On that battlefield, the order of the Knights of the Iron Glacier was born.

Since that day, Knights of the Iron Glacier continued to honor the memory of General Aengrist in their deeds and actions. In time, this hero-worship had an amazing result; some few devout knights began to receive spells in response to their prayers to Aengrist. Today, Aengrist represents a relatively young deity whose influence in the frostfell is growing with surprising speed.