The answer is, "because they are shaped liked snowflakes: sixfold radial
symmetry with sixfold radial symmetry at the end of each arm."
It is a little-known fact that the FIRST Hiver manipulation on humans was
to convince them that the reason humans called them Hivers was a misnomer
due to their hive-shaped habitation mounds, rather than because they look
like snowflakes.
Not really. Or maybe really. That's the nice thing about Hivers.
> While we all know that "Vargr" is Old Norse for wolf, destroyer, or
> evil-doer, and "Aslan" is Turkish for lion, "Hiver" is French for Winter.
>
> Significance?
>
> Discuss.
>
> Or not.