Muspelheim jotun cows!!!!???
Yeah!!!!! I haven’t seen them myself yet due to my inability to stay in the astral very long but I got a description and image of one from a jotun who was helping me with a cup bearing ceremony. I had noticed the odd shape of the horns and she explained that Muspelheim cattle have horns that shape and then when she noticed I was interested told me more about them. This is a drawing I did based on what I got:
They’re generally lighter ashy grey like this but they can be darker. Flecks are typical. Barely any tassle to their tails. They’re kinda long legged for a cow but really muscular. Humps on the back can get really fatty to help with water conservation due to Muspelheim’s heat. She indicated that they can get really big, bigger than a moose or even elephant I think. I know I could easily walk under their belly at 5′5″. This is a pretty like… average young bull. I uh, ran out of room on the paper tho hence the broken horn > >”
Some parts of Muspelheim are dormant it seems and they have active farmlands where they raise cattle and some other livestock as well as lots of crops. They’re primarily fast growing crops though traditionally as one could never know when an eruption might occur. There’s been a shift in this region towards more slow-growing crops like fruit trees because of the dormancy of the volcanoes but primarily we’re talking things like wheat and barley. So lots of food for jotnar and animals since volcanic soil is incredibly fertile.
Crop-wise they also have a lot of mushrooms because of times when volcanism was so bad there wasn’t an ability to grow much on the surface so lichens and mushrooms make up a lot of a traditional Muspelheimian diet.
