This crystal shard shimmers with its own light even as it seems to draw the heat out of its surroundings. Plunging it into your heart grants you the tranquil lethality of deepest winter, but the more you draw upon its power, the colder your heart grows. Your frozen heart dulls your emotions. When you gain a bonus from an emotion effect, that bonus is reduced by 1, to a minimum of 0. At 10th level, the bonus is reduced by 2. Your dulled emotions make it hard to relate to others; the DC of checks to Make An Impression or Request a favor of other creatures, or to Aid in such attempts, is increased by +2. You gain resistance to cold equal to your level and a +2 status bonus to all saves against emotion effects.

Destruction The gelid shard must be left exposed in the Plane of Fire for a week and a day, then smashed with an adamantine hammer by someone who felt true love for the shard's creator.

Gelid Shard

The gelid shard within your heart may sap your ability to feel and experience emotion, but it also lets you create and manipulate cold. You learn to cast arcane spontaneous spells, and you gain a spell repertoire with the Frostbite and Frost's Touch cantrips. You're trained in spell attack modifier and spell DC. Your key spellcasting attribute is Charisma.

Your magical power grows as the shard's icy influence spreads ever deeper into your being. You gain the basic spellcasting benefits. Each time you gain a spell slot of a new level from this archetype, add a spell of the appropriate spell rank (including heightened versions of lower-rank spells) to your repertoire, either a common spell of the arcane tradition that has the cold trait or another cold spell you have access to.

Snow and ice are no hindrance to you. You ignore difficult terrain caused by snow and ice, treat greater difficult terrain created by snow and ice as difficult terrain, and leave no tracks when moving through areas of snow or ice.

Your attunement to arcane cold enhances the depths of your growing power. Increase the number of spells in your repertoire and number of spell slots you gain from gelid shard archetype feats by 1 for each spell rank other than your two highest gelid shard spell slots.

Your eyes are accustomed to the harsh glare of the sun on snow and ice. You gain a +1 status bonus to saving throws against effects that inflict the Dazzled condition. Snow doesn't impair your vision; you ignore concealment from snowfall. Your skin becomes cold to the touch, and sometimes frost forms on you. You are protected from severe cold and heat.

You draw ever more magical cold into your being, learning how to manipulate it to your whims. You gain the expert spellcasting benefits.

Whether in the heart of a volcanic passageway or the glacial tundras of the Crown of the World, the only temperature you ever personally experience is an oddly comfortable chill. You are now protected from extreme cold and extreme heat, and you gain resistance to fire equal to half your level. If you would already have resistance to fire equal to half your level from a heritage, ancestry feat, class feat, or another archetype feat, you instead gain resistance to fire equal to your level.

You can't be impeded by environmental effects that rely on cold or its byproducts. You ignore greater difficult terrain caused by snow and ice.

You have unlocked the deeper magic of your gelid shard, gaining access to new ranks of spells. You gain the master spellcasting benefits.

You are as much a creature of cold as whatever ancestry you were born to. You are immune to cold damage and gain the cold trait. You automatically succeed on saving throws against effects that have the cold trait.

Your gelid shard drinks down nearby heat in a futile attempt to sate itself and achieve a level of frigid cold unheard of in the Universe. This allows you to cool a drink, make a hot pot safe to handle, or other, similar minor effects. Once cooled, the object's temperature is subject to its environment as usual. You can also solidify ambient moisture into a solid object; this temporary object is of negligible Bulk, made of non-magical ice. The object looks crude and artificial and is extremely fragile—it can't be used as a tool, weapon, or locus or cost for a spell. Once created, it melts as normal for ice for the ambient conditions.

Heightened (3rd) You can create simple objects of ice with up to 1 Bulk and of a level not exceeding 1. Such objects must be rigid. You can only have one such object created at a time; if you create another, the previous object melts instantly.

Heightened (5th) Items you create can be up to 4 Bulk and 4th level.

Heightened (7th) Items you create can be up to 8 Bulk and 8th level.

Heightened (9th) Items you create can be up to 20 Bulk and 12th level.