Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-206.78.112.70-20161220221607/@comment-4010415-20161220222802

1.

Weiss: You're... leaving?

Winter: (setting her cup down) Yes. I was merely needed to oversee the transport of additional units to Vale. Our last shipment was lost to an ambush. I believe you had a run-in with its cargo, actually.

Winter was there to guard the new shipment of Atlesian Paladins, in case the villains tried to steal that shipment just like how they stole the previous shipment in volume 2.

2. Monty came up with the idea for the Maidens after they finished producing volume 2. Winter Schnee was first mentioned in volume 2, when the Schnee operator told Weiss "your sister Winter is here". Therefore, Winter Schnee's name being Winter is just a coincidence.