I don't think I'll ever be able to fully understand them. [He says as he looks out upon the people going about their way in the snow. He likes humans, at least most of the time he does, but they often confuse him.] I think you might be right. Snow can be troublesome at times but it holds a peculiar sort of beauty you'll be hard pressed to find in anything else. And, at least in my own lands, it came with certain protections as well. Most armies won't try to invade or besiege you during winter...

...It was a bit like that. We lived in harsh and dangerous lands, closer to the enemy than most others, and we took pride in how we overcame those challanges to thrive in that land and how we often thwarted the enemy in them.

[Only ancient ruins remained of it now on a small island, for the very continent it had exsisted in had sunk beneath the waves during the War of Wrath.]