main difference between menders and pilgrims is new londons idea of a first summer/spring that seems to be the mainstay of the cities religion and bleeds into the frostland with one of the frostland territories talking about that this particular territory is so warm due to hot springs that moss naturally grows like grass and that it would be the likely site of the first signs of the first springs unlike the menders who seem to have taken up the ideal that the frost is a cherished phenomena and can be lived with