According to Rune, no one in Slödava had ever heard of a Rothenian monarch wielding Rime Ice. Then again, no one truly understood exactly what it was, or how it worked. All he knew, he’d said, was that only those in royal families could wield it. And then, usually only monarchs. His was stronger than most princes’, but “Compared to my mother’s blade,” he’d said, “I may as well be carrying a frozen fork.”
