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The Monster
There are Giant Monsters roaming the zones (their enemy faction is Winter Horde), city and hazard alike, ranging in levels approproate to the zone they're in. For example, there are level 5 Winter Lords in Atlas Park and level 47s in the Rikti Crash Site.
They have a variety of powers, and are sometimes accompanied by Blights, which are smaller (twice my height) versions of the Winter Lords. They use Ice Sword, Blizzard, Ice Slick, and a few other powers like Hurl. Their version of Hurl, however, is unique in that it spawns 3 tiny Frostlings (twice the size of Fire Imps). I haven't seen any monsters use Hurl in the lower zones, so I think it's a power only the higher level Winter Lords have (edit: after further testing and other player confirmation, at least until level 27 the Winter Lords do not use Hurl to make Frostlings). Also, they won't throw snowballs if you're standing in their face (read: knees), so back up if you want to farm Frostlings for the Cold Warrior badge.
Monster Levels and Spawn locations:
Atlas Park - Level 5 - not spawning on Live yet
Perez Park - Level 12 - spawns where Hydra spawns (the lake)
Boomtown - Level 17 - spawns where Babbage spawns (far north wall)
Faultline - Level 17 - 170 yards East, NE of Aftershock marker, 270 yards South of Downfall
Dark Astoria - Level 27 - spawns where Adamastor spawns, plus right on top of the Raimi Arcade marker
Terra Volta - Level 28 - parking lot north of the Walker Energy marker
Crey's Folly - Level 37 - East of the entrance
Eden - Level 40 - at the entrance to The Hive, plus halfway between The Hive gate and the FF gate near the northern wall
Rikti Crash Site - Level 47 - ~250 yards South of the crashed saucer
The Badges
There are 2 badges for the winter event that I know of so far. Frozen Fury is rewarded for defeating a Winter Lord (the giant monster). Cold Warrior is for defeating 100 of the snowmen. It doesn't matter it it's 100 Frostlings, Blights, monsters, or a combination. This can take a while, but if you go to an unpopulated zone like the Rikti Crash Site, you can find one alone, maybe even with a buddy next to it. Stay out of melee range and he'll occasionally use the Hurl power to make minions.
The Presents
Every time you defeat a Winter Lord, you are rewarded with a present, which sits in your inspiration tray. It functions similar to a random inspiration of any color, such as a Respite (heals for a lot more than a Resurgence), Luck, Rage, etc. There is also one that acts like Recovery Aura, and another one that makes ther user incur no debt for a duration of 1 hour.
The Snowball
If you defeat a Blight or Frostling, you are awarded with a temporary power similar to the halloween event's Rock. It's a snowball with unlimited uses, which lasts for 12 days. You can throw it at enemies and they take no damage and you generate no aggro with it (edit: I hear there is a tiny big of aggro generated, but it takes multiple hits to anger a mob). You can also bean players in the back of the head with it. It has base accuracy, so good luck hitting an SR scrapper with it.
Merci a Sadyre
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