The Go-la

The Go-la (The Winter): The Winter is a tall, faceless, pale white man. He is usually seen wearing a pitch black business suit with a black tie, sometimes with a scarf. In the early 1800's, he was discovered by the Cherokee and Seminole Native Americans, and was seen as an omnipotent being;  a god. The natives offered their dead tribe members to the Winter so that he would continue to protect the people. If the tribe didn't have any dead to offer him, he would kill one of the alive tribe members. He would first select a native, usually one that was cowering or afraid when he was present. He would then release four black tentacles that he had hidden away in his back, and grab the native with two of them. Once he had the native in his grasp, he would lift them up in front of the other natives and use his other two tentacles to disembowl them, holding their entrails with the tentacles as they disolve into the thick blackness of the apendages (this thought to have given the Winter energy). When he was finished, he would drop the body on the ground and then vanish into the trees, soon to return for another harvest. His victims range from the elderly, to the warriors, and even to the children.



The Winter got his name because of his nature, and the presence felt by the people around him when he is present. Those who have been around the Winter immediately felt a change in the weather around them; a sudden extreme chill.  Those who have felt the Winter's tentacles have verbally exclaimed about how extremely cold his tentacles felt on their skin.



The natives had built a shrine for the Winter in the early 1800's named Ugedaliyv Uyohusv, or the Valley of the Dead in English. The shrine consisted of many thin trees; this is where the dead were tied to in order for the Winter to take them. During the Second Seminole War, the Valley of the Dead was destroyed, and the Dunlawton Sugar Mill was constructed over it. This angered the Winter. From that point on, the Winter stalked and killed members of the Morris and Tulner families, because they were the leaders of the militias that destroyed the shrine, killed the natives, and built the sugar mill. He would take one child from every generation to take under his wing and torment the rest of their family.



It has been prophecised that there would be one son from the Morris family and one son from the Tulner family that would be impervious to the Winter's powers, but only if they are together. Seperated, they are vulnerable.



The Winter represents the values of sacrifice, fear, and death.