Ceremony · Book 3 · Magelord
The Yule night when Minalan, invoking Briga during Minalyan's difficult birth, transmuted the entire mountain of Sevendor into snowstone in a single thaumaturgic event.
The Snowstone Event is one of the pivotal moments of the entire series. On Yule night in Magelord, as his wife Alya laboured in a difficult childbirth with Minalyan, Minalan prayed feverishly to Briga — patroness of childbirth as well as bakers — invoking her over the active molopor deep beneath the mountain.
The goddess answered. The entire living rock of Sevendor mountain was transmuted into snowstone in a single thaumaturgic event, creating the vast lattice that would become the Snowflake and making Sevendor the wealthiest magical polity in the Five Duchies overnight. The event is Briga's first direct intervention in Minalan's story and the seed of every snowstone-based spell and trade in the later books.