With the arrival of the new year, it would also be time for the winter hunts. The Mist Kingdom royalty and government was incredibly busy with so many things all together.
Winter hunts were also common in other countries in Eich. The cold winters meant that starving beasts would be more aggressive and attack humans more often. The cold weather also meant that nobles couldn't enjoy other types of entertainment, which was why the nobles thought of the idea of winter hunts in their boredom.
The nobles would ride their tall horses and bring along retinues of fully armed knights, chasing down the pitiful starving and homeless beasts with the aid of their hunting hounds, cutting off the beasts' heads to parade with as trophies, and decorating their rooms with the beasts' furs. Sigh, those pitiful animals met such a terrible end just because they wanted to find some food for their children. Humans were so cruel…
