The Children of Winter are a small druidic sect who follow the tenet “survival of the fittest”, having come from harsh environments or having been through extreme challenges. They believe that without death and decay, there can be no life. They have no formal heirarchy, rather existing as a series of packs, moving as and where the packs leader directs.

The governments of Khorvaire look upon the Children of Winter as out and out terrorists. The inhabitants of the Reaches are not as extreme in their view, and see the Children more as a force of nature, whose effects are like the impact of a tornado.