As someone who grew up with the 1990 TV series version of the Moomins, and also reading the books once I was in my teens, the idea of a group of Hattifatteners asking for cocktails feels completely out of place.
Those guys move in swarms like a force of nature, do not speak, and feed on lightning.
Hattifatteners
I only read the books, and it’s been quite some time. I had forgotten what the Hattifatteners were called. Didn’t they trap the Hemulin at the the top of a pole once?
A lightning rod, yes.
He touched their barometer, a holy item, as it heralded approaching lightning storms.
As they approached the rod from all directions, surrounding him, the Hemulen climbed up the pole in fear.
He would have been fine though, Hattifatteners are only dangerous during storms, when they’ve been struck, as they carry the energy of the lightning.
Outside of that, they’re quite harmless, though he did upset them by messing with their stuff.
