[Oh — a fellow southerner. Finally, someone who won't look him in the eye while he's bundled up against the chill and tell him "it's not that cold." None of Liem's fellow shard-bearers seem nearly as bothered by the cold as he is, which has made him a little nervous about how much colder it might become in Highstorm as the winter progresses.]

Yes, it can be quite shocking when one transitions from one island to the other. It rarely snowed in my country, also, so navigating it took some getting used to.

[He's not going to mention the two (!!) separate occasions he ended up completely mired in a snowdrift because he hadn't realized snow could pile up into dunes like that. This nice elf doesn't need to know about that. Instead he takes them left at an intersection and lets thoughts of too much snow pass from his mind.]

I've endured low levels of it for much of my time here. It doesn't accumulate quickly in the normal course of things, but I find the process of getting it reduced… inconvenient.

[Read: he's uncomfortable with the inherent vulnerability involved in the purification process, so he put off addressing it for almost three whole months rather than find someone to gently hold his hand for a while.]

Discord affects people differently depending on their affiliation, though, and to the best of my knowledge it is not usually something that the unaligned accumulate.