Not a bother at all–those are good questions! I mentioned it a bit here, but the seasons are an important element of what’s fashionable to wear in the kingdom where MC lives. The colors for wedding clothes are even more specific: pink dress/green suit for spring, yellow dress/red suit for summer, orange dress/brown suit for autumn, and blue dress/white suit for winter. It’s a cultural convention on what’s “proper” and a part of aligning the union to the natural world. Some people do wear other colors anyway, but there are superstitions that doing so will weaken the union. So Hawk not wearing the “correct” color would be seen as a bad omen.

As far as the larger role the seasons play in the story, they will come up a decent amount! The story starts in late summer and ends in spring, and there are some big seasonal events in autumn and winter, too!

Oops, I accidentally uploaded a test version that included multiple pronoun sets when I fixed another bug! The good news is that I think they’re all fixed, so I guess multiple pronoun sets are available ahead of schedule! Thank you for the bug report!

I don’t want to spoil too much, but depending on your choices, yes to all of the above! Isla would very much support a fluff-only agenda. Even big problems (like marrying a cranky elf to learn their secrets) should be solved with kindness, understanding, and learning how to bake cookies together.

That’s a super good question! I got a little carried away, but hopefully this is at least kind of helpful!

TL;DR: Women mostly wear dresses; men mostly wear trousers. Regardless of gender, clothes tend to be light and loose in style without a lot of ornamentation. Currently though, elegant, ornamental hairstyles are in, and many people are growing their hair out to take advantage of that. Hair length isn’t particularly culturally dictated or gendered. Clothing colors usually reflect the seasons’ colors in nature, but only members of high society (like MC’s family) are really expected to have whole ensembles of the “proper” colors. For those curious, robes aren’t at all common due to their association with mages.

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That sounds like a bug! You should be able to type in both blanks, make your other selections on the page, then either hit enter or the Next button at the bottom. Can you let me know how you’re playing (pc/mobile, browser, and what you’re seeing/not seeing compared to the screenshot)? You can submit a screenshot if you need to. I’ll see if I can reproduce it and get it fixed.

Those are great questions! The Winds are generally considered a singular consciousness but with four different aspects: one for each direction. Each one embodies different virtues and is represented by a different animal. Their virtues came up briefly in the Halloween extra, but here’s a list of winds and their associations:

• North: strength, bears
• East: wisdom, ravens
• South: freedom, otters
• West: compassion, deer

Traditionally, when a child is born, their family begins looking for stray feathers on the ground. When they find one, they bring the child along with the feather to a temple, and a priest performs a ceremony to determine which aspect of the Winds the child is aligned with. Most people don’t take it very seriously anymore (unlike in the past where it could dictate what role and profession a child would have later in life), but it’s still a common thing to do–and is usually followed by a celebration for the family! Now that many people live in increasingly industrialized cities, there’s a small industry of people who keep birds specifically for people to use in these ceremonies rather than hunting for urban pigeon feathers. But MC and their siblings were born far enough in the country that their feathers would have been found the old fashioned way.

Should be fixed now! Thank you for the bug report!

I will neither confirm nor deny, but it certainly does sound like something they might be able to do… 🤔