Editing Frost

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'''Frost''' is a [[dragon (cosmere)|dragon]] from [[Yolen]].{{wob ref|2565}} He is old enough to remember the [[Shattering]], and has been corresponding with [[Hoid]] through [[letters]].{{wob ref|2682}}

Like all dragons, Frost is functionally immortal, meaning that he does not age, but he can be killed.{{wob ref|3074}}{{wob ref|5881}} He is the oldest known character in the cosmere, even older than Hoid.{{wob ref|945}} He has gained a second form of immortality on top of his natural dragon immortality through unknown means.{{wob ref|15673}}

While not a [[worldhopper]], he is still highly knowledgeable about the cosmere.{{wob ref|3679}} He is associated with the [[Seventeenth Shard]],{{epigraph ref|sa1|26}} a group that shares his nonintervention policy.{{wob ref|1735}} He is able to keep track of current events in the cosmere through the Seventeenth Shard, correspondence, or other means. Among other facts, he knows that Hoid possesses a bead of [[lerasium]] from [[Scadrial]],{{epigraph ref|sa1|14}}{{wob ref|5483}} that [[Odium]] is trapped in the [[Rosharan system]],{{epigraph ref|sa2|69}} and that a gemstone of Hoid's (presumably the [[First Gem]]) is "dead".{{epigraph ref|sa2|60}} Despite the existence of the [[Silverlight Mercantile]] interplanetary postal service, this was not the method Hoid and Frost used to exchange letters, meaning that they had some other means of contacting one another.{{wob ref|12626}}

=== Immortality ===

Frost's current mortality status is ambiguous. As a dragon, he is naturally ageless; immortal in the weak sense that he could live forever absent outside intervention. However, Hoid says "as you are '''now''' essentially immortal",{{epigraph ref|sa1|22}} he must be immortal in ''some'' sense stronger than that.<!--{{wob ref|15673}} but there's no reason to cite for this, it's literally basic logic.--> But contravening that, he still can be killed.{{wob ref|3074}} Frost is both sufficiently difficult to kill that Hoid would consider him "essentially immortal", but still possible to kill. What this means is not clear.

* Frost first appeared in the unpublished novel ''[[Dragonsteel Prime]]'', some of which can be read on Brandon's website.{{bws ref|dragonsteel-prime-chapter-25-bridge-four-1|''Dragonsteel Prime'' Chapter 25: Bridge Four 1|date=c. 2000}} A series of ''[[Dragonsteel (series)|Dragonsteel]]'' novels are still in Brandon's long-term plans for the cosmere, and would likely include Frost.{{sots ref|2018}}

* In the original Dragonsteel Prime, Frost was posing as a human, and Hoid was able to prove he was a dragon by pranking him using a [[Tamu Kek]].{{wob ref|16190}}