Twillferna, Reaper of Winter

The most cruel and cold goddess of the winter. She often appears as an emaciated old woman in long black dress. She is always smoking a tobacco pipe and there is a layer of frost around her at all times

## Personality

like her sister, Hersped, Twillferna is an enigmatic god. She moves unseen through the world and her motives rarely seem to extend greater than causing general suffering. Most mortals denounce her as an evil sadistic god, cursing her name at every inconvenience, a fact she, for some unknown reason, finds hilarious. For you see, unlike her sister, Twillferna is not so closed with her emotions, she is not a blank stone slate at all times. Her rage is clear in the terrible swirls of her eyes and her joy is shown in her disturbing, uncanny smile.

Twillferna has few followers, but she takes care of them better than most other gods. She blesses them with immunity to the cold and takes away their need to sleep or eat, those who follow her can live far beyond their years. But there is a price to her kindness, a string of sacrifices to prove your fealty, often culminating in the slitting of a family members throat. She's the patron of father-murders, child-killers and all others who kill those they should love.

She is curious god, but only in the most morbid fashion, watching from afar the tragedies of mortals. Sometimes she makes sure the mortal can see her spectating, wanting to be blamed for their pain. No one knows why.

## Divine realm

she exists in her garden deep in low-world. In it she grows the herbs and spices that she burns in her pipe, each plant fertilised by a different souls suffering. Some say that here is were she plans great and awful things, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

## Activities

she is the goddess that causes winter, it is her meddling that brings round the seasons. Springmetin, her nephew, the god that makes nature grow is often kidnapped by her. She steals him away down to low-world and keeps him docile for a time with her spices and herbs, his mother's, Hersped, doting further adding to the time he is kept away from Mid-world. During this time she sends out chill and decay into nature, bringing on autumn and eventually coat in white snow during the deep winter.

During the winter her activity on Mid-world is at its highest. She occasionally approaches homes that are isolated and hold families with small child of weak elder. She will approach the head of the household with a proposition: make a blood sacrifice from your weakest every night and I will keep you warm. If they refuse the proposition she will trap that house in a blizzard until they freeze to death. If they accept they must make a cut on the weakest member of their household every dusk, whether that be the old grandparent or young child. If these sacrifices ever stop, whether that be because the head lost their nerve or the giver dies, Twillferna will set the household alight. As long as her protection exists the house will reek of smoke.

## Relationships

* Hersped: they rarely interact, the main times when they do is when she is being scolded by her. But there is no real ill-will between the two.
* Kulls Donbane: the two love each other deeply and often join in with each others schemes and cruelties. The wind howling is said to be the mournful cries of their victims.
* Shenunsi: there is a deeply spiteful relationship between these two. Shenunsi wants the winter to disappear forevermore and Twillferna would love to watch the sun die.