Santa Claus



Santa Claus or Nicklaus (also known as Nick) is a non-player character who made an appearance as part of the 2008 Christmas event and the 2009 Christmas event. He is the father of Jack Frost and husband to the Queen of Snow.

In the 2008 Christmas event,his son freezes him, his sleigh and four reindeer and players have to defrost him by lighting several logs around his sleigh using a tinderbox (given to players during the event). No firemaking experience is rewarded.

When he is defrosted, players are awarded with the four pieces of the Santa suit.

He seems to be a modified version of Father Christmas from the 2004 Christmas event.

He returns in the 2009 Christmas Event where the Christmas-hating Ebenezer Scourge kidnaps him.

Trivia

 * Nicklaus, Santa's real name, is possibly a tribute to the person who inspired the myth, Saint Nicholas.
 * Interestingly, in Britain, where Jagex is based, Santa is not called Santa Claus. Instead he is called Father Christmas. However, in the 2009 Christmas event, Ebenezer Scourge refers to the captive Claus as 'Father Christmas', strongly implying that both are simply different names used for one person.
 * Santa is not wearing a Santa hat, but is instead wearing a hood.
 * Santa Claus is very different from the 2004 Father Christmas, besides a clothing difference Santa Claus is much more obese, while Father Christmas is about player size. They may be the same character, just graphically updated.
 * He is supposed to have 8 reindeer, excluding Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer.
 * During the 2008 event, players who went into the Wilderness across the mountains from the Slayer Tower would somehow find his frozen sleigh but no Jack or any way to unfreeze him.
 * In the 2009 Christmas Event, if players wore the ghost set, he mistakes the player for a real ghost but quickly relises that the ghost is the player.