Excerpt from the book “The Legend of Demnog“

(On the first day of the eleventh month of the year 997 of the Ninth Age, Cleatis and Sesstis Pumpernickle disappeared. Though Cleatis returned to Savenkapple the following summer, sporadically visiting the graves of his beloved parents, Sesstis was never seen again.)

Cleatis, lanky and long-necked, with a deep voice and a lengthy stride, walked exactly like his younger brother, Sesstis. With a quick tongue and an unruly sense of humor, Cleatis distinguished himself from Sesstis merely by his red undershirt and offensive body odor. He despised cleanliness and those who imposed any form of sanitation upon him. Sesstis was loyal and faintly timid, though a passionate speaker when among friends. Cautious in thought, yet reckless in speech, he respected none wittier than himself, acquiring a distinctive reputation for his repugnant descriptions of any who crossed him, especially Savens. Both were unmoved in their habits and beliefs from birth, and they claimed to see beings no one else could see.

Though the stories recorded in the annals of Savenkapple concerning the Pumpernickle twins were extensive, Cleatis compiled only the events of 997. Their early years were based on supposed eyewitness accounts and rumors, and the Pumpernickle twins never bothered to clarify the factuality behind such stories, mainly because they could not remember them. But when the events of 997 began to unfold, the Pumpernickle twins were rarely seen outdoors, except after nightfall.

Several times throughout his life, even in brief moments of mental clarity after the tragedy of 997, Sesstis claimed their misery began in their youth, when the rumors surrounding them started to circulate throughout Savenkapple. But Cleatis always said their problems began the day they first met Moekíe.