Winter

"... [Winter is the principle of silence, of endings, and of those things that are not quite dead.]"

Winter is the Principle of The Sun-in-Rags, The Elegiast, and The Wolf Divided, of death, remembrance, unlife, debilitation, and beauty. Its followers are sometimes characterized by remorseless misanthropy and sometimes by kindness through euthanasia, but are always characterized by silence. It is the aspect to which the Children of Silence and the Towers of the Dove are dedicated. It's lore is referred to as "the Ragged Lore".

Lore Fragments
A Sexton's Secret [ 2 ]
 * Certain knowledge, it is said, can be expressed only through the particular quality of a silence. It has been suggested that one can only read such knowledge with one's eyes closed, but only by mischievous commentators. [Use this in a Rite with a corpse and aspect, and the corpse will rise.]

A White Ceremony [ 4 ]
 * When I speak it, my lips don't crisp with frost. Each time, this is surprising. [Use this in a Rite with a influence and  to summon the Voiceless Dead.]

An Operation of the Declining Sun [ 6 ]
 * This invokes, acknowledges and welcomes the passage to silence. [Use this in a Rite with a Heart influence and Byzantine Tinct to summon the Voiceless Dead.]

Invocation of the Ivory Dove [ 8 ]
 * There is a power that commemorates and grieves, from whom nothing is taken, but who cannot be deceived. You might expect to be able to crush him in your hand, into bird-bone fragments. [Use this in a Rite with and an assistant dedicated to  - or other resources of equal power - to summon a Maid-in-the-Mirror.]

Recitation of Lost Hours [ 10 ]
 * Six are gone. Five came from Stone and one from Light. All went to Nowhere. Still their memories have power, and now we call upon it. [Use this in a Rite with Martensite Paste and an assistant dedicated to Knock - or other resources of equal power - to summon a Maid-in-the-Mirror.]

The Division of the Names [ 12 ]
 * When the Sun-in-Splendour was divided, the Names fractured too. Here as the shards of their names which once were whole. [Use this in a Rite with Martensite Paste and an assistant dedicated to Knock - or other resources of equal power - to summon a Maid-in-the-Mirror.]

Wolf-Word [ 14 ]
 * When the Forge is cold and the Glory is dark and the Wood is dust, perhaps the Wolf Divided will rest, but only until it can devour itself. This word almost expresses the Divided One's hatred. [Speak this to a Hunter, and it might drive them insane on the spot.]

Ingredients

 * Greydawn Oil [Winter 4, Auctionable 2, Pigment]: "The precise colour of the hours when one cannot sleep."
 * Wolf-Snow [Winter 8, Auctionable 4]: "Far too cold ever to melt in anything but the hottest noonday sun. It will, very gradually, consume human flesh."
 * Watch-Worms [Winter 12, Auctionable 6, Lethal Poison 3]: "A tiny pot of stunted, dessicated larval remnants from the First Worm War, rank with the power that inhabits dead Hours."

Books
Hiver