Stories From The Head

The Castle of Uhygga

The people in the castle of Uhygga had been looked down upon by the citizens of Krater (Uhygga´s gonk-town) for as long as they could remember. They all knew the reason all too well: The grand priest of Uhygga, Fetish, had in his earlier days been known to be quite careless when it came to the hygiene of his fester (a serious matter in those days), and for this he was never fully accepted in the "Circle of lepturs”. (A leptur was a person who had deserved, or failed in deserving the Espen Cross of the kingdom of Uhygga. Since "leptur" can mean both "he who made it" and "he who made a complete fool of himself" all the members of the Circle were simply referred to as "lepturs". Today’s correct spelling of the title is "lepturre". Fetish was one of the ones who had, with no difficulties, deserved the Espen Cross, and this made things only worse, since one of the hardest challenges in the quest for the Espen Cross is, as you probably have guessed, FESTER HYGIENE!) The surrounding lepturs wanted to charge Fetish for his Espen Cross, something Fetish strongly opposed to. "Oh, what a terrible dream!", Fetish thought when he woke up. "It was all so real!" He put his hand into his pocket. The Espen Cross was gone...

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