Festive aura

The Festive aura is a special aura that was received during an event in December of 2012 and will be obtainable for a second time starting 1 December 2013, featured a 50% experience boost and a wintery cosmetic effect, although now, only the latter remains. It was released alongside December 2012's Winter Weekends. The aura will be available again for all members in December 2013. The "festive bonus" experience effect could remain activated for 30 minutes with a usage limit of once per day exclusively during the month of December, after which it became just a cosmetic aura. This item is the first aura available that does not require Loyalty points to purchase.

During December 2013, the festive aura can only be reclaimed by talking to a Helpful snow imp.

The aura was deposited upon logging in, into all members' inventories starting on 1 December and ending 31 December. If both the bank and inventory were full, players could talk to Xuan to obtain the aura manually. Xuan will still replace the aura, even if lost or destroyed after the event period; however, during December 2013, the replacement will need to be recharged for almost 24 hours before it can be used. He also used to replace the aura if it was lost or destroyed each time the player spoke to him, even if they didn't want it, although this has been corrected. Players who subscribed at any time during December were still eligible to receive the aura.

Experience bonus
The bonus is said to work the same way as any other XP-boosting aura does. It is confirmed to stack with other bonuses such as bonus experience and skill outfits. It does not boost one-time XP rewards, such as those from resource dungeon discoveries. The daily bonus experience is capped at 50,000. The aura can be taken into Deamonheim for bonus experience, although not until 3 December 2012.

2012 (historical)
The items listed here were no longer available (as experience boosting items) when the aura made its return in December 2013, after the bonus experience update.

Release
The aura was revealed first through a lobby message, confirmed in forums, and after the news post, concept artwork from the RuneScape Facebook page was posted. Mention of it was among the login promotion messages on free-to-play servers.

"This will be announced officially tomorrow, but it will indeed work like other Auras, with a 30 minute duration which can be used once per day. It will also have a cool wintery cosmetic special effect too!"

- Mod Pips

Trivia

 * An animation can be triggered in which more snow falls from the wings. Toggling weapon sheath, equipping, and unequipping an item are a few of the display triggers.
 * There is currently a glitch where the glowing runes of the aura will appear at your hand even when you have a staff sheathed.
 * The effect of the Inferno adze is less likely to activate with this aura activated.
 * Currently, this item still has a 24 hour cooldown, while only displaying a cosmetic effect for only 30 minutes.
 * Reclaiming the aura from Xuan resets the recharge timer to 24 hours.
 * For players who were not members during the month of December, this item is not obtainable (like other holiday and seasonal items).