Claus Klaws

Founder of House Scuttlepuff.

The legend of Claus Klaws

After the age of enchantment, and the beginning of the peace between tribes, the apprentices, squires, and muck workers were feeling left out. The four remaining tribes (after the wizard war) had banded together and held ceremonies, games and great feasts to win what is now called the House Cup. Frankly they were feeling left out. All the hard work that these enchanters and crafts workers had put their heart and soul into had been unnoticed and taken for granted. They wanted to be part of the fun that was Wizard party.

A hero soon emerged, no one knows for sure where Claus Klaws came from. Some say he was a muck-worker who was a talented sculptor of the crabglove excrement known as “muck”. Some say he was a master enchanter who made the most powerful items known throughout the land. Some even say he was raised by dwarves and he worked his life in the darkness of the deep roads. No matter his origin, Claus Klaws was the hero that the workers and misfits needed. For he was the one to recover the missing Chalice before the third Wizard Party.

No one knows how the cup was lost in the first place. Could it be a demon from a hell dimension trying to obtain the power of the Cup? Was it a secret magical plot during the war? Was it one of the lost or disbanded wizard tribes still trying to survive in a war-torn world? Was it some trickster fairies or freelings just trying to pull a prank? Was it a Zylvandrake trying to add the cup to its dragon hoard?

Whatever the reason, Klaws had appeared quite suddenly in front of the Wizard King, the Mystical Seer, and the Wizard house founders. He presented the cup and asked for the misfit workers and the downtrodden to be accepted as the fifth wizarding house.

The Wizard party was reluctant to let them become an official house. Most of them were not even magical, or actual wizards. They were commonly viewed simply as the help. This perception changed quite suddenly when each house was presented with a gift, a very powerful magic item that worked in tandem with the House Cup.

To Gryznak, a crown was given, with the ability to summon the dead.

To Ruplemore, a single Trog, able to poison and weaken any type of enemy the wielder could possibly face.

To Wieseaufang, an intricately enchanted spoon, able to create the most powerful of potions and alchemical reactions.

To Zylvandrake, A finely crafted dragon egg, with the power to summon the fire of dragons with the most intense heat.

To the newly formed house of Scuttlepuff, Klaws kept a gauntlet of might.