Morozz

Morozz is a deity of cold and winter, ice and snow and sadness, once worshipped in Ilya and Dovyelo before the Inundation, now rarely. Morozz is sometimes considered a vestige, but their followers sleep deep beneath the ice of Kryia, ready to awaken and return their god form somnolence.

Winter, cold, ice, snow, sleet, arctic animals (especially but not exclusively polar bears, seals, and penguins), lobsters and crabs, sand, and long-haired cats are sacred to Morozz.

Morozz appears as a trinity: a dominant androgynous white bear, and a submissive male gray seal and female black penguin.

Morozz's holy symbol is a white or red lobster or crab, usually depicted with sand-encrusted claws, and their favored weapon is any spear. Morozz is Lawful Evil, and their followers wear robes of white, gray, and black.

Clerics of Morozz primarily chose the Tempest or Death domains.

Moiety
Morozz is indifferent-to-positive about homosexual relations, but a strict moiety system is enforced among their followers (very strict in Ilya of old, less strict in Dovyelo of old, hardly at all today). Every follower of Morozz is a member of either the grayseal or blackpenguin moiety, and members of one moiety may only marry members of the other. Abstract tattoos of the appropriate color are de rigeur.

Any individual is the moiety of their opposite-sex parent: sons of blackpenguin mothers and daughters of blackpenguin fathers are grayseals, while sons of grayseal mothers and daughters of grayseal fathers are blackpenguins.

Children resulting from a same-moiety union are considered abominations and cast out into the cold. Outsiders with no moiety can, in an elaborate ceremony with the blessing of the High Priesthood, choose either grayseal or blackpenguin when converting to worship of Morozz.

Children that have no opposite-sex parent, or whose parents are both opposite-sex, or who are born intersex, are of a rare and prestigious third moiety, whitebear. Whitebears are permitted only to join an existing blackpenguin-grayseal marriage, and the moiety of all children of such a triple union follow the rules as though the whitebear were not present (even if a female whitebear births a son, the son is of the moiety of the other woman in the triple). Lay leaders and high priests are frequently of the whitebear moiety.

Leadership
The high priesthood of Morozz was traditionally a collection of one to several individuals, consisting of all available divine casters of the whitebear moiety of sufficient power (exactly what constituted "sufficient power" varied a bit over the centuries). When no such individual was available, the most powerful available divine caster of either other moiety took the job.

At the time of the Inundation, the high priesthood consisted of three: Azablarth, Leomirch, and Saparc.