The winter in the Mortal Realm affects not only the land but, with the increasingly cold climate, many places in the world are influenced by the seasonal changes.
Or rather, it's not the winter brought by Demeter, for what she truly presides over was never the change of seasons. It's just that the present world requires a complete cycle of seasons, which then descends upon this world as a node, and The Fertility Goddess's wrath is merely an initiator.
Like now, when the concept of [winter] was born in this world, the first to sense it were not the creatures on the land, but the gods or Divine Artifacts that were connected to it. Within the fourth layer of the Spirit Realm, the Well of Reincarnation churned tumultuously, seemingly resonating with something distant.
