#ty for enabling my relantless ranting

[vullcanica]

📂 for 3 muses of your choice!

His 1.5 missing fingers and two missing toes Silas lost to frostbite. Being 13 and living in a forest hut means you're a little screwed in particularly cruel winters. He didn't know better, was undersupplied for the deeper snow, had no dry wood once the thatched roof gave under the ice and, at loss of what to do, undertook a trecherous trek back to town on foot. Collapsed in a snowbank a kilometer or two away. To this day he still jokes he's only alive because of the red hair, bright enough for a passing farmer to notice amongst all the snow. He was brought in and thawed out, safe and sound but for two blackened toes, a righthand pinky and a righthand ring finger, only half of which was cut off. A small price to pay considering the alternative. He's a leftie with a sword for that reason alone. No pinky, no grip strength.

The Tower's served plenty of functions in human society, from temple to office; it knows how to blend in. Constance's favourite has to be residential building, though. They're a fair, reasonable and helpful landlord and, while not the best conversationalist, they enjoy observing and interacting with humans. Sure, the place is strange but it has decent rent, shady tenants go missing pretty quickly and there's an unlocked janitor's closet (no janitor in employment) off the foyer that always contains items you're currently in great need of. Scissors, cables, drills, blankets, lost keys, pets and children. So long as you're respectful, it will always be unlocked for you.

Nikodemus is still fond of and honors his culture greatly, despite being the reason it was wiped out. Still, there's no place like home, even if home was rather hostile to him and some source of pain. He likes best the folk songs and native food he was reared with, thick dark broadleaf forests and simple lenins, chanting to the open sky and travelling by short plump mount. He respects earthen magics still though if he's long since left his behind, sticks to odd rituals, birth, wedding and burial rites, and even indulges in some of the silly little superstitions he never believed in. For nostalgia's sake.