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Men do the work of devils, do they not? It has always been so.
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missing winternight doodle ❄️
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morozko from the winternight trilogy ❄️
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A painting of Vasya and Solovey from The Bear and the Nightingale . Highly recommend this series!
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Illumicrate announced the rest of their The Winternight Trilogy set. More info from their social media.
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if not, winter by fruitys rated: m Morozko/Vasya, post-canon
Their third winter, and a morning beneath another spruce-tree.
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the winter of the witch by katherine arden
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The Winternight trilogy fanart by By KaneScribbles
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"I am a witch, " said Vasya. "I have plucked snowdrops at Midwinter, died at my own choosing, and wept for a Nightingale. Now I am beyond prophecy. "
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Princess Mononoke AU (The Winternight Trilogy)
“As I could, I loved you.”
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“‘Such a sad story,’ the frost-demon replied, unmoved. 'I have seen ten thousand sadder, yet you are the only one to come stumbling to my doorstep because of it.’ He bent nearer. The firelight beat on his pale face. 'Do you mean to stay with me now? Is that it? Be a snow-maiden in this forest that never changes?’ The question was half gibe, half invitation, and full of a tender mockery.”
— Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower
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“We encounter him in fairy tales as an ambiguous Jack Frost character, who punishes the wicked but also rewards the good. However, the roots of the character are pagan and violent. He traces his origin to Karachun, the old winter god of death and chaos who literally shortens your life.
Here is where I diverged from folklore. Because it seemed to me that death and chaos can’t be embodied by the same god. It’s impossible. Death is the antithesis of chaos. So I decided to bifurcate the character, and spin off his chaotic parts into the Bear. The bear is partially based on the dark god veles in Slavic mythology, (whose symbol is a bear) but the two are parts of one whole. I thought how incredible it was, the journey Morozko took to from savage death god, to forest spirit to, in the modern day, ded moroz, who with the snow maiden brings gifts at Christmas to good children. I imagined an actual person, immortal, watching their role and their very self change throughout history, and his he’d feel and react. And so my Morozko was born.
Yes, in the fairy tales, he’s like old man winter, with a beard. I didn’t want a grandfather though, I wanted someone of ambiguous years and morals, still full of life and unwilling to fade. And so I wrote him.”
- Katherine Arden talking about creating Morozko’s character on her Instagram