User blog comment:ShininGeek/CCC5 Maria: Queen of the Arctic Storm/@comment-7709681-20140911020136/@comment-24244491-20140911035236

i honestly can see it only as either a toggled ability or a passive, and i wanted her to have the feeling of a storm growing into a blizzard. i feel like movong it to her ult or to another ability would make it feel more like just turning on Karthus w or Anivia r and would take away a bit of the idedtity. Her ult was supposed to be the apex of the blizzard: total whiteout with little chance of escape or survival. I feel like the current ult captures this nicely.