Dear Lords and Ladies,
this Halloween we will be adding a new suit of armour for your character to wear (if they dare!). This suit of plate is of legend and lore and shall strike fear in the hearts of your enemies!
It was on the night of the 31st of October 1203 that Lord Gorlatz of Morgarden would become immortalised in the Annals of Aubelin.
A wicked and spiteful ruler, Lord Gorlatz was feared and hated by many. Revelling in his infamy, he commissioned a grotesquely themed suit of armour featuring twisted anguished faces upon swirling runes, the ghastly helm a horned fiend with an impish smile. Fuelled by paranoia from numerous failed assassination plots, Gorlatz was seldom seen without his armour. An imposing sight in battle, vicious and bloody in combat, unstoppable and untiring. It was as if his armour had its own will.
After smashing the Rebel Army at Megino during the Hopebearer rebellion of 1203, an enraged Gorlatz swore a 'night of terror', commanding his forces to raze the rebellious communities. The exact circumstances that followed are unclear; there was word he fell from his horse while marshalling stragglers, some say he was murdered by his own captains, others insisted that he rode into the foggy night maddened with vengeance. The only thing known for sure is, that he had his night of terror, terrifying the locals as they witnessed a screaming, mad demon flailing behind a horse as it rode through the rebel heartlands for several hours. He was later found lifeless, dragging behind his spooked steed, entangled by stirrup and strap.
Since then the tradition has grown across Aubelin where events take place annually on October 31st; Mummers perform in costumes that mimic Lord Gorlatz' armour, bed-time stories of 'Gory Gorlatz' frighten naughty children and rumours often surface of sightings of Gorlatz' cursed armour wandering the fog seeking vengeance.