Wolperdingers

While necromancers are far from the liveliest bunch, they do enjoy a little diversion from time to time. Their dark frolics often involve the creation of a wolperdinger - a reanimated construct created from spare animal parts. The enjoyment non-necromancers receive from these weird Frankenducks will depend on how amusing they find soulless abominations.

A Duzulspimk Wolperdinger by Zuza Gruzlewska
Like all undead, wolperdingers follow commands from the necromancer who animated them. Their ability to carry out said instructions will largely depend on the construct's practicality. You can make these things out of anything, but while no one will stop you creating a goat with the legs of a duck and the head of a squirrel, that doesn't mean the end product will have any practical application.

Given the work that goes into creating a wolperdinger, most tend to be taxidermied. This means they smell better than most undead. It's this extra effort that puts most practitioners off as necromancers tend towards the unhygienic. For some reason they view beating death as less of a challenge than beating body odour.



The Duzulspimk Wolperdingers

An Austrovian town named Duzulspimk suffers from an interesting wolperdinger infestation. The person who created the source of this problem used parts from a pine marten, a duck, a jay, and a ram. They created it for a competition. Said competition involved amateur necromancers hiding wolperdingers around town as part of a treasure hunt. Problems arose when one got hidden in the worst possible location.

Duzulspimk lies in the Yelps in the shadow of Mount Mordberg. Its peaks rise so high that they enter the majosphere - the area where magickal particles accumulate. Unfortunately for everyone in town, one necromancer hid his wolperdinger in this troublesome band of atmosphere. Hocus pocus ensued as a result.

The original wolperdinger took on a life of its own after being exposed to the enchanted majosphere. Once this happened, it began creating more wolperdingers - acquiring the requisite body parts through less than savoury methods. Fortunately for Duzulspimk, the soulless duck weasels lacked the claws and sharp teeth needed to murder people. This wasn't for a lack of trying, however. They try it so often that Duzulspimk residents need eyes in the back of their heads - a feat they achieve with enchanted glasses. 


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The collective noun for ordinary wolperdingers is the same as all reanimated corpses - a 'shamble'. The enchanted wolperdingers of Duzulspimk go by a 'ruckus'.Wolperdingers can make a variety of noises - it all depends on what sort of mouth they have.The wolperdingers in Duzulspimk go: "QWUAWHK!" or "hiss!"
Creation Notes


Wolperdingers will feature in the upcoming novel The Fame Eaters. I read about them when researching mythology of the alps. Using them in the book me to thinking about how a reanimated creature would work in the Tumultiverse. I decided that a person would take a corpse of some description and pump it full of dread particles - basically like creating a donut only with horror instead of jam.

If you'd like to see some real-life wolperdingers (or 'wolpertingers'), then look no further:


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