Vattern are short creatures, about one meter tall, and have a grayish mottled skin. They fear a life completely in the darkness, yet they hate the scorching sun, resulting in a life both, above and below ground. Vatterns live in large strains that go from a hundred to five hundred individuals deep into the forests or mountain caves. But consider, however, that Vattern posses a low intelligence and a primitive social structure and consider that as the truth and so they chose their leaders in this way.

Naturally I do not believe there is a conection between Vatterns and King Trolls other than that they belong, in parchments, to the same family, meaning they have some common traits and instincts. The story is quite long and I do not intend to explain it further. That part is known today as the King Trolls. This being called itself “King Vatt” and he was constantly torn between the love of rocks and the love of magic. In short it tells about how “vatterns” and “king trolls” in the dawn of time were one single entity. The story is called “Big stone meets little stone”. Rarely I’ve heard stories of vatterns, but one I remember perfectly well. For us humans it seems as strange and almost comical criteria for selecting leaders, but dubious as it may be these beings believe so strongly in his heritage, that nothing has shacked their way to chose their leaders for many thousand seasons. Vatterns believe in fact that a King Troll lives in that vattern, and that he is therefore ideally suited to lead the tribe. The Vatter which has the most beautifull and pointed nose is appointed as the new leader once the old one has died. Unlike all other bastjurs they elect a leader, not for how big and strong he is, but by how he meets the criteria for how handsome appearance he has according to the Vattern.

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