Diablo IV's first holiday event, Midwinter Blight, will see players decorating Kyovashad's town square for the holidays starting December 12, all while fighting back against the minions of the Red-Cloaked Horror.

Announced during the Diablo IV segment of BlizzCon 2023's opening ceremony, Blizzard has now shared more details about what exactly the event will encompass. For starters, the event is, strangely, only for seasonal characters. Assuming players have one, they can visit Gileon the bard in Kyovashad to kick off the winter festivities. He'll task adventurers with journeying out into the frigid cold of Fractured Peaks to collect Blighted Fragments from monsters called Blightfiends and destroy "gory jumbles of human viscera," according to Blizzard, in order to recover lost heirlooms.

Blightfiends, as it turns out, like to celebrate the winter holidays a little differently, and players will need to battle the beasts and disrupt their festivities. Doing so will summon their overlord, the Red-Cloaked Horror, a goatman robed in red that instantly brings to mind Krampus, Saint Nicholas' antagonistic doppelganger from European folklore. Defeating the Red-Cloaked Horror will unlock a special title.