Midgard dwarves are extremely suspicious and skeptical
of the Norse deities, and indeed of deities and priests in
general, for good reason. Many Midgard dwarves, such as
Andvari, have been killed or robbed by the Aesir.
Midgard dwarves speak Dwarven and Celestial.
COMBAT
The dwarves have traditionally been for the dwarves,
unwilling to fight for any cause except their own. That
said, in Norse legends and sagas, dwarves were willing
to fight the gods themselves if necessary. This stubborn-
ness serves them well, as do their magic weapons, rings,
and armor.
Curse (Su): Once per year as a standard action, a Mid-
gard dwarf can lay a powerful curse on someone who has
wronged him (usually by stealing from him, injuring him,
or killing a close relation). This functions like bestow curse
(DC 16, CL 20th), except that the range is unlimited, and
the spell is dismissible. The save DC is Wisdom-based. The
dwarf must be able to see or describe his target (for example,
“the thief who took my gold, wherever he is” or “the one who
killed Snorri”) and the target must be guilty of the injury
the dwarf specifies. Dwarves on the brink of falling in battle
have been known to forego an attack in order to curse the
enemy who is about to defeat them.
A dwarf can sometimes be persuaded to lift his curse with
an offer of weregild—money to compensate the dwarf for
the injury or wrong he suffered. Generally, this requires at
least 1,000 gold pieces.
Alternate Form (Su): Midgard dwarves have the abil-
ity to assume the form of one specific animal of Small or
smaller size—typically a badger, otter, raven, or weasel. A
Midgard dwarf can shift between its humanoid and animal
form as a standard action. This ability works much like the
polymorph spell, except that the Midgard dwarf is limited to
the one specific animal he knows how to turn into, and he
does not regain hit points for changing form.
Dwarven Blood: For all effects related to race, a Midgard
dwarf is considered a dwarf.
Magic Items: All Midgard dwarves equip themselves
with magic arms and armor. The dwarf described here
uses a +2 chain shirt, +2 battleaxe, +1 light crossbow, and +1
ring of protection, but other dwarves may have different
possessions.
Few seek to take their wealth from Midgard dwarves, since
they are notoriously unforgiving. Midgard dwarves will
carry a grudge or grievance for generations, even passing it
down in clan and family lines.
Master Smith (Ex): Midgard dwarves gain Craft Magic
Arms and Armor, Craft Wondrous Item, and Forge Ring as
bonus feats. They are considered to possess the prerequisites
necessary to craft any magic item of those types, even if they
do not otherwise meet the requirements or have the ability
to cast the necessary spells.
Native Outsider Traits: Unlike most outsiders, Midgard
dwarves can be raised or resurrected normally. They have dark-
vision out to 60 feet.
Skills: Midgard dwarves have a +8 racial bonus on
Craft checks, and a +4 racial bonus on Use Magic Device
checks.
MIDGARD DWARF CHARACTERS
A Midgard dwarf’s favored class is fighter. Midgard dwarf
clerics are rare, since the Midgard dwarves are distrustful
of all gods. A Midgard dwarf cleric has access to two of the
following domains: Fire, Knowledge, Strength, and War.
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ELEMENTAL WEIRD
Weirds are strange beings of elemental energy who are
mighty diviners. They are oracles and seers, sometimes
sought out by mortal creatures for the gifts of knowledge
they can offer. Weirds dwell in remote or hidden places in
the Material Plane; the frostfell is home to two varieties, the
ice weird and snow weird.
A weird resembles a beautiful female humanoid com-
posed of snow or ice. The creature is bound to a special
elemental pool, a place of power from which the mystic
energies that comprise the weird spring.
Like most seers, weirds rarely provide clear prophecies
or prognostications. Weirds do not lie, but they often omit
information, or provide information the listener simply
can’t understand yet because the requisite events have not
yet come to pass. Weirds do not dispense their prophecies
for free—those who seek one out would be wise to bring
gifts or offerings, or be prepared to serve the creature as
it directs.
A weird can communicate with any creature that has a
language.
COMBAT
Weirds avoid combat, going so far as to abandon their pools
and return to their native elemental planes rather than
engage in a fight. If circumstances prevent them from
simply avoiding battle, they use their formidable spells and
special abilities to attack at range, viewing melee combat as
a tactic of last resort.
Elemental Pool: Weirds are physically tied to magic
pools or patches of their native substance, and cannot leave
except to return to their native plane, either the Elemental
Plane of Air or Water. Each elemental pool has a portal to the
elemental planes at its bottom. An elemental pool is always
at least 40 feet in diameter and 20 feet deep, although a pool
can be up to ten times that size.
A weird may rise up to a height of 10 feet above the surface
of its ice pool, but the lower part of its body must always
remain in contact with the elemental pool. Once a weird
exits the pool for its native plane, the portal closes, and the
pool loses its special properties.
Prescience (Sp): At will and as a free action, a weird can
duplicate the effect of any of the following divination spells:
clairaudience/clairvoyance, contact other plane, detect thoughts
(DC 18), discern location, find the path, foresight, greater scrying
(DC 23), legend lore, locate creature, locate object, tongues, vision.
Caster level 18th.
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 Searching Gaze (Su): A weird continually has the ben-
efits of the analyze dweomer and true seeing spells.
ICE WEIRD
Large Elemental (Cold, Extraplanar, Water)
Hit Dice: 15d8+45 (112 hp)
Initiative: +6
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares), swim 30 ft.
Armor Class: 21 (–1 size, +2 Dex, +8 natural), +2 insight),
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touch 13, flat-footed 17
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Base Attack/Grapple: +11/+20
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Attack: Slam +15 melee (2d6+5 plus 1d6 cold)
Full Attack: 2 slams +15 melee (2d6+5 plus 1d6 cold)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks: Chill, elemental command, spells,
summon elementals
Special Qualities: Damage reduction 15/magic, dark-
vision 60 ft., elemental ice pool, elemental traits,
heat sense, ice mastery, immunity to cold, prescience,
regeneration 10, searching gaze, spell resistance 25,
vulnerability to fire
Saves: Fort +14, Ref +9 (+11 with foresight), Will +11
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 14, Con 17, Int 20, Wis 23, Cha 22
Skills: Concentration +21, Diplomacy +26, Knowledge
(any two) +23, Listen +26, Sense Motive +24, Spot +26,
Swim +13
Feats: Alertness, Dodge, Empower Spell, Great Fortitude,
Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes
Environment: Elemental Plane of Water
Organization: Solitary, pair, or charm (3–4)
Challenge Rating: 15
Treasure: Double standard
Alignment: Always neutral
Advancement: 16–30 HD (Large); 31–45 HD (Huge)
Level Adjustment: —
This creature looks like a large, beautiful woman sculpted out
of pure, transparent ice. Her eyes glow with white fire and misty
vapors pour off her body, evaporating into the air. Below her
torso, her body becomes a shifting column of ice blocks that con-
nect her to the icy surface beneath her.
Owing to their rigid structure and their constant fear of
melting, ice weirds have become predictors of the unending
battle between chaos and law. They foresee which of these
primal forces will dominate future events.
An ice weird’s lair is usually situated within a glacier, ice-
berg, or surprisingly often within special chambers filled
with freezing cold created by wizards of chaos or law who
wish to take advantage of the ice weird’s prognostications.
Ice weirds speak Aquan, Auran, Common, and Ice Weird.
They also benefit from their tongues spell-like ability.
Combat
Ice weirds refrain from combat unless they or the ele-
mental ice in which they dwell are attacked. In addition
to the abilities shared by all weirds, ice weirds have the
following powers.
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Chill (Ex): In addition to its normal slam damage, an ice
weird deals an extra 1d6 points of cold damage with a suc-
cessful melee attack.
Elemental Command (Su): An ice weird can attempt to
gain control over any elemental with the cold or water sub-
type within 100 feet. The elemental must make a successful
DC 23 Will save or succumb to the ice weird’s control. An
elemental that saves against this attack is immune to that
weird’s elemental command ability for 24 hours. A weird has
no limit to the number of elementals it can control. The save
DC is Charisma-based.
Once under the weird’s command, an elemental serves
the ice weird until either it or the weird dies, until the
weird dismisses it, or until the duration for its summoning
expires. It obeys the ice weird explicitly, even if ordered to
attack the being who originally summoned it. The weird
does not need to concentrate to maintain control over any
elemental it commands.
Spells: An ice weird can cast arcane spells and divine
spells from the Chaos, Cold, and Law domains as an 18th-
level sorcerer.
Typical Sorcerer Spells Known (6/8/8/7/7/7/7/6/5/3 per
day): 0—arcane mark, daze (DC 16), detect magic, flare, ghost
sound (DC 16), mage hand, ray of frost, read magic, resistance;
1st—magic missile, obscuring mist, shield, silent image, true
strike; 2nd—calm emotions (DC 18), invisibility, mirror image,
scorching ray (+12 ranged touch), whispering wind; 3rd—dis-
placement, lightning bolt (DC 19), protection from energy,
suggestion (DC 19); 4th—lesser geas (DC 20), remove curse,
solid fog, wall of ice (DC 20); 5th—cone of cold (DC 21), dispel
law (DC 21), dream, feeblemind (DC 21); 6th—animate objects,
chain lightning (DC 22), greater dispel magic; 7th—dictum (DC
23), project image, spell turning; 8th—demand (DC 24), polar
ray (+12 ranged touch); 9th—mass hold monster (DC 25).
Summon Elementals (Sp): Three times per day, an ice
weird can summon forth water elementals from its elemen-
tal ice pool. It can choose to summon 3 Huge, 2 greater, or
1 elder elemental through this portal. This functions like
summon monster IX, caster level 20th.
Elemental Ice Pool (Su): An ice weird dwells within
a large patch or pool of churning, grinding elemental
ice, anything from a frozen pool to an iceberg or even
a glacier.
Any nonelemental creature entering a weird’s pool
without the weird’s permission must succeed on a DC 23
Fortitude save each round or be irrevocably transformed
into ice. Creatures granted access to the pool by the weird
are not subject to transformation. However, creatures
allowed to enter a pool must still provide their own protec-
tion from cold and ice, as well as the means to breathe and
move normally. Otherwise, they take 2d6 points of damage
and 2d6 points of cold damage per round from the churn-
ing blocks of ice, and may drown.
An ice weird is physically tied to its pool and cannot leave
except to return to its native plane.
Elemental Traits: An ice weird has immunity to poison,
sleep effects, paralysis, and stunning. It is not subject to
extra damage from critical hits or flanking. It cannot be
 raised, reincarnated, or resurrected (though a limited wish, Environment: Elemental Plane of Air
wish, miracle, or true resurrection spell can restore life). It has Organization: Solitary, pair, or charm (3–4)
darkvision out to 60 feet. Challenge Rating: 15
Heat Sense (Su): An ice weird can automatically Treasure: Double standard
sense heat sources within 60 feet, as the spell detect fire. Alignment: Usually neutral
It senses only the presence or absence of heat, but if it Advancement: 16–30 HD (Large); 31–45 HD (Huge)
chooses to use a standard action to concentrate on this Level Adjustment: —
ability, it can establish the number and location of heat
auras and the strength of each in the second and third This creature appears as a large, beautiful woman composed

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rounds of concentration. entirely of brilliant white snow. She has dazzling silver eyes too
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Invisible creatures whose location is pinpointed by heat

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blizzard that connects her to the snowy ground.
sense still have total concealment from an ice weird.
Ice Mastery (Ex): An ice weird gains a +1 bonus on attack
and damage rolls if its foe is touching ice. Snow weirds are harbingers of boon and doom, predict-
Regeneration (Ex): An ice weird takes normal damage ing weal and safety or warning of dire circumstances and
from fire and cold iron weapons. Attack forms that don’t events to come. They see great fluidity in everything,
deal hit point damage ignore regeneration. since they themselves can take the form of beautiful
Skills: An ice weird has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim showers of pure white snowflakes or dangerous and
check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. deadly blizzards.
It can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if While snow weirds see themselves as conduits between
distracted or endangered. It can use the run action while the Elemental Plane of Air and the
swimming, provided it swims in a straight line. Material Plane, here to convey
Weirds divined information to all pe-
SNOW WEIRD titioners, their ever-changing
Large Elemental (Air, Cold, Extraplanar) nature (though governed by

Hit Dice: 15d8+45 (112 hp)
Initiative: +8
Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares), fly 60 ft. (perfect)
Armor Class: 19 (–1 size, +4 Dex, +4
natural, +2 insight), touch 15, f lat-
footed 13
Base Attack/Grapple: +11/+20
Attack: Slam +15 melee (2d6+5 plus 1d6 cold)
Full Attack: 2 slams +15 melee (2d6+5 plus
1d6 cold)
Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft.
Special Attacks: Chill, elemental
command, spells, summon elementals
Special Qualities: Damage reduction 15/magic,
darkvision 60 ft., elemental snow pool,
elemental traits, immunity to cold, pre-
science, regeneration 10, searching gaze,
snow mastery, spell resistance 25, vulner-
ability to fire
Saves: Fort +10, Ref +15 (+17 with
foresight), Will +11
Abilities: Str 21, Dex 18, Con 17,
Int 20, Wis 23, Cha 22
Skills: Concentration +21,
Diplomacy +26, Knowl-
edge (any two)
+23, Listen +26,
Sense Motive +24,
Spot +26
Feats: Alertness, Dodge,
Empower Spell, Great Fortitude,
Improved Initiative, Lightning
Reflexes
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strict natural laws) sometimes
causes them to engulf travel-
ers in snowstorms for their
own amusement.
Snow weirds speak Aquan,
Auran, Common, and Snow
Weird. They also benefit from
their tongues spell-like ability.
Combat
Snow weird A snow weird refrains from
combat unless it or the el-
emental snow in which it
dwells is attacked. In addi-
tion to the abilities shared
by all weirds, snow weirds
have the following powers.
Chill (Ex): In addition to its
normal slam damage, a snow
weird deals an extra 1d6
points of cold damage with a
successful melee attack.
Elemental Command
(Su): A snow weird can at-
tempt to gain control over
any elemental with the
cold or air subtype with-
in 100 feet. The elemental
must make a successful DC
23 Will save or succumb
to the snow weird’s con-
Ice weird trol. An elemental that saves
against this attack is immune
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