The Great Wyrm of the Neverending Mountains

In 922 Octavius Maurinnen wrote a travel journal in which he recorded the circumstances of his expedition into the Neverending Mountains. He writes about preparing for the journey and finally setting out. His party then faces various natural perils in the mountains and is reduced by many men. Him and his remaining companions finally meet the wyrm. In this original account it is described as "a grey wyrm slither'd dowen the slowp of the mownten. It's eys and moweth at its frunt, the formur aglow in the nighet." After this the next pages are missing, seemingly ripped out. It then resumes with a diary of Maurinnen's day back in his home town, Titan's Hand, four years later and continues as a normal diary recording his day to day life.

This diary was found by a reporter for the Zheford Herald, a small newspaper. She travelled to Northbridge and found a villager who had also heard stories of this wyrm. After this article, there was what was known as the "Wyrmania", where people would set out to try and find this wyrm, most of the times either not making it into the mountains proper or dying on the journey. The stories of the people that claimed to have seen the wyrm or been in the mountains are often highly contested, as to their truthfulness. Another consequence was the widespread killing of the Zheford callourous worm, a worm that lives on and in the Callour trees and is seemingly made out of wood. Since it has many similarities with the supposed wyrm, it was said to be the wyrm's children or the wyrm in a different element.