[2][citation needed] Many years ago, in Lapland, a boy named Nikolas is orphaned when his family are killed in an accident.

Grateful, Nikolas begins whittling toys out of wood as a gift which, each Christmas, he leaves for the family that cared for him.

[3] It becomes a tradition from then, with Nikolas never forgets the children of those families that received him each year.

When a blight hits the village, and none of the families can afford to take him in for the next year, he is taken in by grumpy hermit, carpenter named Iisakki, becoming his apprentice.

Nikolas begins to live more and more for the spirit of Christmas with each passing year and it becomes his life[4] and as he grows old he becomes the figure known as Santa Claus.