In Boreas, winter seems to continue strongly throughout the entire continent. Sharp northern winds slide over the ice bridge that formed to the north. Snow has settled into every nook and cranny of the lands and many places are covered in ice. The colder-than-usual winter slowed smaller streams into a slushy trickle, but now many of them are frozen solid, with the rapids and hot springs the only exceptions. The everlasting grey skies loom far in the distance as if threatening to cover up the sun forever. There is no relief in sight, and something worse than the cold keeps ebbing away at the very core of the land.

In Auster, the chilly winds sink further and further south, freezing The Bifrost and dusting even the southernmost regions with snow and ice. It seems like there's no escape from the cold even here, and it only gets worse further north. The daytime can still reach above freezing in the lower half of Auster, but the top half stays just below, keeping The Bifrost frozen for the first time in history. At night, the whole continent is swathed with a bitter cold like never seen before.