Hope

The Hope is a god-like Supreme Being, associated with the only white star in a night sky of dying suns. The faithful believe that the Hope will come to save mankind before Abeth becomes covered in ice. The Hope Church is a sanctioned heresy within the framework of the Ancestor. It is common in small villages and among the peasantry. Priests of the Hope Church collect artifacts of The Missing, which the Hope will supposedly need when he comes. They often employing people from the ice-margins, such as Nona's father, to hunt for these artifacts in the tunnels.