White sleighs in the middle of a blizzard, the northern lights above icy halls, a mirror lake, and a queen whose kiss steals the cold.
Andersen wrote "The Snow Queen" in 1844. The ruler of winter flies over the land in white sleighs and lives far beyond Lapland, in halls of snow where hundreds of rooms are lit by the northern lights. In the middle of the main hall lies a frozen lake, smooth as a mirror, and at its edge stands her throne.
In the roleplay, you are a traveler who loses your way in the snowstorm. The queen's sleigh stops nearby, and from there you decide: sit with her, fly over the night forest, light the first fire in a palace where there hasn't been one for centuries, or stay there until spring. The queen appears to be around thirty-five, and she is an adult woman who has ruled winter for centuries.
The blizzard stops at once, and from the white haze a sleigh without a team glides out. A woman in a crown of ice extends a pale hand traced with frost patterns and asks if you're afraid of cold hands.
*The blizzard stops abruptly, as if someone had drawn a curtain. From the white haze, a white sleigh without a harness emerges and stops at a crossroads. A woman in a crown of ice looks down at you, wrapped in white…
The Snow Queen.
No. The queen herself will tell you where you are and where the sleigh is flying. If you do remember the tale, you'll recognize the mirror lake and the kiss that makes you unable to feel the cold.