[ Yggdrasil sounds familiar. Hadn't he heard Eizen go on about that once? Ah, no, it was probably different. No way that there would be trees like that everywhere, right? ]

Yup, sounds like Northgand. It got worse as time went on, cause Musiphe went to sleep. Used to be just kinda chilly and really likely to snow, buut then the icecaps near the volcano got... really nasty. Like, you don't bundle up just right and you'll probably loose fingers, nasty.

[ ... Not that it really bothered him much, the few times he went up there before everything got messy. ]

I was.... on Glenwood, over in Artorias' Throne again. Thousand years and a Lord of Calamity did a number on that place.....