Wintersday is a Christmas tradition in Guild Wars. Town centres are decked out in snow, lights and baubles are strung up between houses, and the world becomes populated with sentient snowmen. The tradition continues this year, but with some throwbacks to Wintersdays past. Developer ArenaNet is bringing back the Secret Lair of the Snowmen, a special dungeon from the original Guild Wars and, best of all, the most famous of the series’ snowmen - Freezie, the champion of Dwayna. “For a few years, players have been asking about the Secret Lair of the Snowmen,” team lead Joe Kimmes tells us. “There were still snowmen here and there in the activities, but there was little to uncover about their lair in Guild Wars 2.” In the original Guild Wars, the snowmen were on the side of the deity Dwayna in the war of the gods. Each year, Dwayna and Grenth would battle to decide “whether the cold season would give way to spring or remain year round,” Kimmes explains. Players would pick which deity they wanted to support - Dwayna’s followers would build snowmen to ward off Grenth’s goblin-like minions, the Grentchs.