One week in, time for one of the stars of the show...
7: Santa Claus!
“Ho-ho-ho!”
As noted yesterday, Santa Claus is pretty strange. A conglomeration of St. Nicholas, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Lord of Misrule, the pagan overlord of a Christian festival.
Various interpretations and non-Nicholas origins have been presented since he rose to prominence - there’s a new one on Netflix this season, and a new chapter of the Grant Morrison and Dan Mora comic version of the same name - and he has official D&D stats, is available in miniature form from various companies, made a notable surprise guest appearance in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, was the narrator of a series of letter by J.R.R. Tolkien to his children, and Comics Alliance used to adapt odd St. Nicholas stories and discuss his importance in various superhero universes and other settings.
How you might use him in a game depends very much on the game, its general tone, its overall Weird Level and the seasonal adjustability thereof...
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