https://www.rottenkeyminiatures.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-07-20 https://www.rottenkeyminiatures.com/dictionary daily 0.75 2022-03-15 https://www.rottenkeyminiatures.com/aboutus daily 0.75 2022-11-30 https://www.rottenkeyminiatures.com/home daily 1.0 2022-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/ab21b44f-2cba-45bb-bf5a-7aafcdac40ac/RKM_June22_TheCraftsmenSet.png Home - The Craftsmen Set Includes 4 characters from a marketplace, craftsmen and stallholders This set is available on our Patreon for June 2022 Aarni sees the town’s marketplace and can’t wait to explore it. To read more, see the Eighth Chapter of Aarni’s Story: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/b22d69d6-7c94-4940-9fae-5952840e3445/RKM_May22_TheNoblesSet.jpg Home - The Nobles Set Includes 4 noble character miniatures This set is available on our Patreon for May 2022 Aarni’s journey takes him to a town full of life. Read the full chapter through the link: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/09297dc0-67c7-4f10-9dde-70f21ff3b140/RKM_Apr22_TheSoldiersSet.png Home - The Soldiers Set Includes 4 soldier character miniatures This set is available on our Patreon for April 2022 Aarni is talking with an innkeeper, when soldiers come in looking for bandits. Read the full chapter through the link: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/57d0670e-fd3d-413b-bab1-6abba7c4f8bb/RKM_Mar22_TheMaahinensSet.jpg Home - The Maahinens Includes 4 maahinen character miniatures This set is available on our Patreon for March 2022 Maahinen is a creature from Finnish folklore. They live underground, have magical powers and can turn invisible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/27e0842e-2d0a-44a9-b3ee-3064923f2acd/RKM_Feb22_TheForestFolkSet.jpg Home - The Forest Folk Includes 4 forest spirit character miniatures This set is available on our Patreon for February 2022 Aarni is on their way through the forest, but can tell there is something else aswell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/5dd70e73-c9c2-4b85-bb77-9252851f1f38/RKM_Jan22_VetehinenSet.jpg Home - The Water Spirits Includes 4 water spirit character miniatures This set is available on our Patreon for January 2022 This set was inspired by the Finnish water spirit, Vetehinen, who will lure humans into the waters with them https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/427f9f6c-3fe2-49af-b031-10107f401505/RKM_FallenFighters_Dec21.jpg Home - The Fallen Fighters Set Includes 4 ghoulish undead miniatures This set is available on our Patreon for December 2021 In the second chapter of Aarni’s story, they join villagers for a campfire to hear a tragic tale. The forest around the village holds strong magic and powerful secrets from the past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/4218f37d-f29c-4abf-ad1a-f82d23796b57/nov21_set_v2.jpg Home - The Magical Fighter Set Includes 4 fighter miniatures This set is available on our Patreon for November 2021 We begin a story told by Aarni, who leaves their home to a village of fighters with magical powers. On the way they has to travel through a forest with unseen dangers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1632166744040-DVIGGCES024I9C4WQSSW/RottenKeyMiniaturesWelcomePack.png Home - The Welcome Pack Includes 4 tonttu characters and 4 terrains These creatures are a great help in everyday life, but only if they and their dwellings are respected. We have told stories for four of them on the Miniature Sets -page. A tonttu is a small, humanlike creature in Nordic folklore. Some perceive them as elves, others like gnomes, but most commonly they are described as little bearded men. They tend to the buildings they live in, but have fearsome tempers. https://www.rottenkeyminiatures.com/welcomepack daily 0.75 2021-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1632099251805-67EHJV659AZF9RHDQQ1E/RottenKeyMiniaturesKotitonttu.png The Welcome Pack - Tonttu of Home Once on a summer’s day I was visiting an acquaintance and he told me about a young couple who moved in next door. These youths were from the city, but said the peacefulness of the countryside was what they longed for. An old log cottage built on a hill pleased the couple, but after living there for few weeks they seemed rather weary. They claimed that a continuous banging from an old masonry oven was keeping them up at night and the whole thing should be demolished. An elderly lady from the village asked the couple if they had remembered to greet their home’s old dweller, the tonttu of their home. The youths laughed; nobody believes in those old stories anymore. A few weeks had past, when the young couple boasted that they had replaced the old masonry oven with a modern electrical one. The joy did not last however, for the new oven started banging as well, but even twice as much as the old masonry one. They returned the new oven back to the store and bought another one, hoping they would finally be able to sleep. To their misfortune not only did the oven start banging again, but so did the walls and the roof. Finally, the youths decided the country life was not as quiet as they thought and returned to a life in the city. Around the village it is still said, that the home tonttu of the old log cottage on the hill will keep banging until it gets back its old masonry oven it has slept on for decades. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1632101271707-Z4GNT7OTFH7EAWFXWMRH/RottenKeyMiniaturesSaunatonttu.png The Welcome Pack - Sauna Tonttu The most dreadful tale I have heard about tonttus is one about a sauna tonttu from my grandmother’s childhood home. The tonttu was particular about the behaviour of the people bathing; if you were bathing in the sauna too late at night, the löyly might be uncomfortable as the tonttu wanted to be already left in peace. One night however, a local vagabond had drunkenly ended up sleeping in the sauna. The sauna tonttu had been furious about the intruder and the next day when my grandmother’s father was going there to get warm water, he found the man skinned, with the skin hanging over the railing. The event shocked the entire village and my grandmother never touched alcohol in fear of the same happening to her. This is also the reason why she told us to only go to sauna sober. A sauna tonttu will not be pleased if his sanctuary is dishonoured. After all, sauna is only meant for bathing, giving birth and dying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1632099592724-YH3XW9700691TB916S1H/RottenKeyMiniaturesRiihitonttu.png The Welcome Pack - Tonttu of Riihi I once walked past a riihi where grain has been dried for decades, and a story I heard from a farmhand about a riihi tonttu that dwelled in the building occurred to me. Every time he guarded the fire drying the grain, he remembered to greet the tonttu of the riihi and to offer it some fresh milk. This was because once working on a farm elsewhere he had forgotten to be polite to the riihi’s tonttu and infuriated the tonttu set the grain on fire. The master of the house was outraged and made the farmhand swear to never underestimate a riihi tonttu, for it is greatly responsible for a home stead’s income. The lost grain could not be recovered and a new riihi needed to be built. After learning from this, the farmhand never forgot to be polite towards a riihi tonttu and soon noticed its benevolence for him too. Once a tonttu had guarded the riihi’s fire and kept it from spreading when the farmhand had fallen asleep after a long day's work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1632100504084-KMRQKBB4H0F84FALGRYZ/VL_S_Myllytonttu.jpg The Welcome Pack - Mill Tonttu I once heard a shocking story of a shopkeeper, who needed flour for his shop during the Holidays. The shopkeeper arrived at a farm and demanded to have flour sold to him. The mistress of the farm reassured him, and said they would not have enough for themselves if they sold any. They could not make more either, because the tonttu of the mill was not to be disturbed during the Holidays. The shopkeeper became infuriated and said he will get the grain into the mill himself if the farmers will not do it. Despite oppositions, he went off to work in the mill. The millstones would not move an inch even though the wind was blowing. The shopkeeper went to see what the problem was and saw a small rock wedged between the millstones. Carefully he tried to push off the rock with a twig, but then figured it was too stuck to be removed without strength. He attempted to grab the rock, but right then the millstones moved crushing his hand between them. Luckily the owners of the farm arrived and were able to free the man from the millstones. “It was the tonttu!” the shopkeeper wailed as he was taken to a hospital. “I saw it! A little man sitting on the millstones when my hand got caught between!” He was not heard from again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1633096308718-8FSNY4OZD6N77O67K0P9/RKM_WelcomePack_3DModel_Koti_Tonttu.jpg The Welcome Pack Tonttu of Home - Welcome Pack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1633096332022-GM0EZ23CJ5IT3K0R0XCX/RKM_WelcomePack_3DModel_Home_Oven.jpg The Welcome Pack Oven for Tonttu of Home - Welcome Pack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1633096350555-IYPHTAZNS0JHC7QO4ILJ/RKM_WelcomePack_3DModel_Riihi_Tonttu.jpg The Welcome Pack Riihi Tonttu - Welcome Pack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1633096364611-1Y2YIVKILVCWYBQ3WPE2/RKM_WelcomePack_3DModel_Riihi_Stove.jpg The Welcome Pack Stove for Riihi Tonttu - Welcome Pack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1633096393182-GBH0PV76U7BTXYJ3LCUB/RKM_WelcomePack_3DModel_Mill_Tonttu.jpg The Welcome Pack Mill Tonttu - Welcome Pack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1633096416198-7QPVGB3YICY4SS77KI06/RKM_WelcomePack_3DModel_Mill_Millstones.jpg The Welcome Pack Millstones for Mill Tonttu - Welcome Pack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1633096436292-2Z52OSRAO7UUY77YV42E/RKM_WelcomePack_3DModel_Sauna_Tonttu.jpg The Welcome Pack Sauna Tonttu - Welcome Pack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/1633096456496-SYEEGP6WD238TDM268Q0/RKM_WelcomePack_3DModel_Sauna_Steps.jpg The Welcome Pack Sauna Steps for Sauna Tonttu - Welcome Pack https://www.rottenkeyminiatures.com/themagicalfighterset daily 0.75 2021-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/caf67390-d122-42ab-af6c-e783e8bad3ee/RKM_MagicalFighter1_VL.jpg The Magical Fighter Set I left my home village Aava today, taking some food, camping equipment and my knife with me. It’s not much, but enough for my first waypoint. I am going to Nila, the village in the forest next to our village. It should take two days to travel there by foot, but it doesn’t bother me because I get to see the forest too. I walk for hours in a mellow forest thinking about Nila. It’s said to be village full of strong fighters with magical powers. They helped our village in the past during war, but after the peace, they have been more secluded. Occasionally, some of their merchants have visited our village and I have admired their rugged looks. I wonder what their village looks like. On the way I notice how the trees grow taller and the forest floor turns greener. The place feels magical when the sunshine seeps through the leaves, glimmering on the dew drops on the foliage. The moss feels soft under my feet and I hear the birds singing all around me. I find my way to a stream and decide to stop there. I take a refreshing sip of the clear water before I take off my boots to cool my feet in it. This feels like a perfect spot for a camp tonight. I eat and lay down on the soft mossy ground. It feels so comfortable and soon I feel my whole body falling to sleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/441de4e8-1a7b-4fc2-b4b2-d6057111e6e9/RKM_MagicalFighter2_VL.jpg The Magical Fighter Set The next day I woke up to a voice of a man. He was shaking me awake, but I wanted to sleep more. “Get up now, or the forest will swallow you!” I opened my eyes drowsily. I saw a rough faced man with a short beard, wearing dark blue robe. My body felt numb and heavy, but the man helped me to stand up. “You shouldn’t sleep in a place like this, it’s dangerous. Lucky for you I found you, otherwise you’d been goner.” I try to ask what he means but my throat feels dry. The man seems to read my mind and hands me a flagon. “You’ve probably been drinking that stream water. It drains you, just like the forest.” The flagon had murky mead in it, but it felt heavenly. I drank until I felt better. When I could talk again I gave the flagon back to the man and thanked him. “No worries kid, it would have been sad to see such a young traveler sink under the moss. I assume you are from Aava.” “Yes, I am travelling to Nila and thought I could sleep the night in the forest, but apparently it is evil.” “No, no, the forest is not evil. It needs to live just like you and me.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/7fc74529-cca8-47c8-83eb-d321160be437/RKM_MagicalFighter3_VL.jpg The Magical Fighter Set The man laughed and waved for me to follow him. We walked to a cart pulled by a huge horse. He pulled out a dead deer, throwing it on the moss bed. Immediately the carcass started to sink into the moss. “I promised I’d bring some food home today, but I think the forest is hungrier so it can keep the deer. My name is Otso, by the way, what is yours?” “I am Aarni, nice to meet you Otso, are you from Nila?” “Yes I am, would you like to have a ride there?” I accepted the request and climbed on the cart. There were blueberries, mushrooms and roots in baskets and a pile of chopped wood. The ride went smoothly and Otso told me more about the forest. It was once an ordinary forest, but during the war the master magicians of Nila had to enchant it in order to keep the enemy away. Later it became burial grounds for the fallen. The forest was friendly to the villagers of Nila and granted its produce to them as long as the villagers were respectful towards it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/01700d05-3f68-467d-a677-93cc60186d1e/RKM_MagicalFighter4_VL.jpg The Magical Fighter Set At noon we arrived to Nila. The village was bustling, children were playing with toys made of pine cones and some of the older ones helped their parents with chores. The houses were made of wood, clay and pelts, and grass was growing on the roofs. I could hear a wooden wind chime clacking in the wind and somewhere someone was roasting meat. In the middle of the village stood a large stone building, covered in moss. A light smoke was floating out of its windows on the second floor and I could smell a faint scent of blackcurrant. I spent two days in Nila, learning their ways of living. Under the rough looking shell they are very spiritual and close to nature. Every once in a while a baby with magical abilities is born in the village and is seen as a gift from gods. That child will grow to be a strong fighter with magical abilities, such as healing, spell casting or illusions. Some of the fighters have potential to be even stronger magicians and they are promoted to master magicians. Some of them work as tacticians on the field and some are oracles who work mainly from the village, living in the big stone building, meditating and talking to the gods. https://www.rottenkeyminiatures.com/the-fallen-fighter-set daily 0.75 2021-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/660f45ef-2538-4ef5-a37a-e8481709df72/RKM_FallenFighter2.jpg The Fallen Fighter Set The Fallen Fighter Set December 2021 Rotten Key Miniatures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/3d9de784-a672-48e3-bb92-14dd5c6cfdf0/RKM_FallenFighter3.jpg The Fallen Fighter Set The Fallen Fighter Set December 2021 Rotten Key Miniatures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60ecc006f17d6b2c0b456fbb/b9b56f0f-7942-4e0a-a15b-c74860a7975b/RKM_FallenFighter1.jpg The Fallen Fighter Set The Fallen Fighter Set December 2021 Rotten Key Miniatures 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