The prompt: Freewrite for three minutes on this cliché: "ice water in her veins."
- Prompt #152, Creative Writing Prompts

I've never had a frost mage so it's never literally been true. All of my females can be said to have chilly dispositions under certain circumstances: Aurélia to those who've wronged her, Ocelot to those who aren't worth her time, Arienne to anyone but Logan ... Still the character who sprung to my mind was Aléri Lenchantin, half-elf necromancer. Her full name is Aléri pèr-Vaelis mèr-Lenchantin dês-Denaria, and she is the eldest daughter of the exiled son of a high elven emperor.
IE a princess in exile. And in a death cult. She will inform Arienne as a character a lot during her descent into Death Knighthood.
Why is she cold?
She lost the one person who could have redeemed her, then was forced to eat his remains.
That'd chill anyone's blood.