Pine tomtes
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In the Draim trading card game Draim arena, pine tomtes is one of the four tomte types, living in the deep Sorgendal forest, in a close symbiosis with the ulves.
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[edit] Tomtes and ulves
When the pine tomtes where separated from the humans (see: Ulvmen) they wandered back west until they came to the Stream of Sadness. The same irony of fate that separated them from the humans/ulvmen now brought them together with the ulves. Already during the first nights when the tomtes looked out over the area by the river bed they noticed ulves sneaking around in the vicinity. Firstly the tomtes where terrified by the appearance of their furred neighbours. But soonly they noticed that the ulves kept a proper distance to the tomte colony and made no approach to attack them. After a while the tomtes also discovered that the ulves patroled the tomte colony to protect it from attack. Blood hogs, roar calves and murder badgers where hunted away by the ulves if they came to close to the tomtes. When the tomtes had lived for generations in the ulves vicinity they learned to ride on their backs and to use them as cargo animals. The ulves did not seem to mind this close relation to the tomtes but rather where ready for it. What this is due to it is hard to say, but it sometimes has been suggested by historians that it might have been Makor that forced Grymf to give the ulves protection to the pine tomtes due to the fact that she separated them from the humans.
[edit] The life and living of the pine tomtes
The pine tomtes have lightly amber yellow eyes. They like to plait their beards and like the forest tomtes and the bog tomtes they wear peaked caps. The pine tomtes caps though are darkly green so that they can camouflage in the environment easily. The tomtes brownscaled clothes are sewed in rat skin. The tomte shamans (each clan has a shaman) wears clothes sewed in pheasant skin with long golden feathers. The pine tomte clans live and travel around the Stream of Sadness. The tomte lifes is constructed around and dependant on their relation to the ulves and the shovel tuskers. During the time the tomtes been living in Sorgendal they have learned to tame the ulves. The ulves are used partly as protection and partly as cargo and riding animals. The tomtes, which either rides on the ulves backs or hang in woven baskets under their heads, uses small wooden flutes to direct the animals. The tomte clans follow the tracks of the moving shovel tuskers as they are plowing the river beds. This is something that the tomtes has a great use of when the elefants partly digs up clams for them and partly plows the soil so that the tomtes can sow potatoes there. Besides this the tomtes build their temporary dwellings of collected tusks and elefant faeces and heat their dwellings with faeces that they burn. The pine tomtes are nomads and selldom stays for longer than six months at their temporary dwellings (so called “steds”). These are then taken over by other tomte clans. The tomtes menues usually consists of clams, rat and squirrel meat, small birds and pheasant and potatoes. Berries, fruit, mushrooms and bugs are popular delicacies. The tomtes selldom or never takes part of the ulves pray bacause the ulves often prefers to hunt and eat further into the country. The tomtes uses clam shelfs to manufacture pieces of jewellery, washbasins and shields. They prefer to use spears, slingshots, and ivory bats during hunt and in battle. The chieftans and shamans of different tomte clans from time to time gather at certain session places marked with ivory monuments to clear out different matters concerning dwelling areas and such. The pine tomtes has no strong connections to the humans since they separated during the exodus from the Karpland.
[edit] The 14 clans of the pine tomtes
- Blomfluga
- Nyckelpiga
- Stinkslända
- Krusbär
- Hallonskott
- Klumprot
- Stockros
- Mjöldagg
- Potatisblad
- Krusbär
- Rönnbär
- Vinbär
- Äppelskorv
- Päronskorv
[edit] See also
List of species in fantasy fiction
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