This silly creature was inspired by KRAMPUS and Halloween! Before I explain the LORE of him here’s the lore of Krampus: The name of bro is what people in the Alps call December 6th, “Krampusnacht.” It’s a mix of “Krampus” and “nacht.” Nacht is German for night. Krampus night. Anyway so Nikolaus (thats how it was spelled) would go out and Santa would get all the good children and Krampus would beat the naughty children with a birch wood rods and kidnap them it a big sack or bucket thing. He would ether eat them, torture them before drowning them, or drop them off at hell were they eternally burned. Crazy for not doing the dishes 3 months ago. The interesting part is that some stories depicted Saint Nikolaus as the unhinged sick one and that Krampus was scared of him because he just smiled through the children being tortured and killed. Sometimes there are images of Krampus with chains around his neck but that doesn’t mean drip. It was to symbolize Cristian control over evil. My guys lore: Krampus was tired of Christmas every year where he slaved away for Santa.he was tired of being called the evil one. He wanted a creature of his creation to live a free and better life than he did. Krampus also knew of other Holidays where children were naughty. He then made a creature of ash, soot, bones of children and, their organs plus meat. He skinned wolfs of there pelts and panthers too. He then took some of the millions of evil souls from hell and jammed them into the carcass. The monster twitched with life. It’s eye bean to glow. Its tail began to slither back-and-forth. Krampus celebrated its awakening but what to call it? It was Demember 6th, so with a bit of an ego Krampus named the creature Krampusnacht but the beast wasn’t for Christmas. This creature linked away to its masters bidding on Halloween. The Creature every Halloween would awaken for that one night to feast on the naughty children. It would eat the children in costumes that took more or all of the candy than they should have from bowls. Most of the time it ate the children but sometimes it did what its master had done. It would torture them by melting scolding hot candy from the trick-or-treater’s own haul to their face or it would play Dead By Daylight with them by sacrificing them to the souls of hell. If it is near the lights on the street will turn off as it walks turning back on afterwards. This is how it would travel unseen sometimes. It will worships Krampus for the rest of the night after its slaughter. It will burn birch rods long into the night until the black smoke is still seen in the morning. When it is time for hibernation it will hid in old buildings or rotting logs. It is about the size of a large wolf.
Art my me Character/story by me Article uses for research: https://www.jahernandez.com/posts/krampus-of-alpine-folklore
