Chimney Man
The Chimney Man
| Name | See description |
| Birth | Before 100,000 BC |
| Ability | ???????????? |
Traits
| Species | Unknown |
| Provenance | Mpumalanga, probably |
| Height | 8' 10'' |
| Eye Colour | Red like blood |
| Dimension | All of them |
Note: If you were looking for the 8th chapter of The Travels of Dagobert Winter, see The Man in the Chimney.
The Chimney Man, frequently also referred to as the Man in Red, is a seemingly timeless, primordial entity that is active each year around the twenty-fourth of December, and whose purpose and ambitions remain largely unknown.
Description
The Chimney Man seems to have a place in many cultures of the world and is referred to by them by a multitude of different names, including Santa Claus or Father Christmas by many cultures of the present day, Irkalla by the Sumerians, Mot by the Phoenicians, Old Man Murder by [REDACTED], as well as He Who Takes Stride Upon the Thrones of Madness in the legends of the Coffee Haus Mages of the Gambia.
Most of what is ‘known’ about the Chimney Man has been handed down by tradition and folk tales over the course of centuries and is, as a result, not seldom rooted in falsehood and misconception.
The only thing that is known for certain is, though a multitude of people claim to have seen or met Him, investigations conducted by the Examiners of Malfeasances Attributable to Santa in the early 1960s have yet revealed that the fate of those poor souls that have the misfortune of having His gaze fall upon them is sealed, for there is no escaping Him. Hardly anyone has ever met Him eye to eye, and lived to tell the tale.
History
He was long thought to be a mere invention of the human mind; one man however, disagreed with this notion: at the dawn of the 20th century, Dagobert Winter set out for the ancient land of Sumer. In what followed, He was set free to roam the world once again.
In more recent times, there is one ‘encounter’ of sorts that has been documented.