The Shining Wyrm

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Momentous events came this summer season.

It is known that among nearly every single feral wyrm, there aggregate and move beasts aligned either partly or directly to its cause.1

It has been long conjectured whether their presence is intrinsically linked to the dwelling of a wyrm and in what manner their nature is linked. But it is observed and witnessed they do cohabitate within its lair and they emerge from some providence in most cases of such a creature settling into its powers in a territory.

The propensity of such creatures to settle and rest within the dens or nests of a feral wyrm has led to the common name given for the phenomena of lairspawn for all such beasts.

And in the past seven days, I have made great strides in understanding this phenomena.

It is at this point four and a half years into observation and description of the subject that I have witnessed something that shall give weight on the origins of such beasts in at least the case of what I still attest is the inaccurate title of a tyrant wyrm.

To the legend and hearsay that lairspawn occur spontaneously from the environs of a wyrm of a given type or are caused by a deep and wyrmish enchantment enacted naturally upon those beasts which dwell with them, I can partly refute.

While there may be some spontaneity to the process, there is also a direct lineage I can now assure, with my very own eye as witness to the event.

Lairspawn are born from eggs laid by a wyrm which lack the properties of a true-wyrm-egg.

This is not a new claim, although direct observation has until now not confirmed the witnesses and boasts of slaying knights. That true Wyrm eggs are always among clutches of similarly sized eggs is verified truth but otherwise it was assumed these were mere mortal decoys provided by the lairspawn themselves.

That when smashed these eggs contained immature wyrm spawn that were also seen in the presence of the slain feral wyrm has been until now seen as proof such a service is made by the beasts in service to their masters (or as I can now concluded mistresses and likely mothers and grandmothers)1 .

As pertains to the subject, one egg has been laid2 and its hatching has yet to be seen, but by simple expedient of well versed techniques its contents have been confirmed3.

The subject’s offspring so far continues the pattern of wyrmspawn taking after a particular feral wyrm’s beastly company. But in this case the beasts which the subject keeps company of predominantly are mortal men.

Although yet maturing within the egg by sight and ken of my truth in these matters, I have an initial judgment as to the nature that the subject’s spawn will take on hatching.

The Tyrant Spawn takes after men, in that there are arms and limbs and a shaped body as one would expect of men and women. The curl of the body in egg is of a kind similar to that of a man’s child while curled within the womb of a mother. In difference there is the presence of a still prominent tail and a skull which is very reminiscent of the mother’s in shape.

This event is insufficient to fully dispute that Wyrmspawn might also be the product of a natural enchantment4 but given the proximity and closeness of the subject with her family, beasts and other potential candidates of such transformations including myself that this has not occurred in even the slightest gives me doubt this is the way that they occur in the wild.

Although the manner of other beasts often is confounded when it comes to Wyrm and Lair spawn, I am confident that observations of the hatching and further behavior of the Lair spawn will be within the season if not sooner.

1 See attached notes transcribed from the ventures of Etele wyrmslayer and his company of merry knights.

2 This process does not appear to have been voluntary on the part of the subject and brought some amount of distress and confusion.

3 The technique was the use of raising the egg to rest between the observer and the noonday summer sun. Allowing its radiance to bring to clarity the shadow of the form found within. Even hinting at performing an operation to open the egg for direct observation was met with agitation and uncharacteristic, possibly involuntary aggression from the subject. Care must be taken to receive full informed consent if verification by autopsy of this study is to be undertaken with this or any future subject.

4 As proposed by the volume of Orion’s Historica Naturalis Cantora which informs on the beasts of the searing southern sands of old Kahmatt and their particular breed of limbless wyrms which nest amid the rocks and have venomous stings on their tail. So say’s Orion that it is believed that great enchantments cover all the sands that these wyrms dwell in, some of which are even capable of turning unwary travelers into more wyrm spawn if they should set camp overnight unaware. As none of my circle have ever traveled so far as Kahmatt there is no verification of this effect to be had and literature on it is sparse. Even if it did once occur it is unclear that any living wyrms of this kind described yet reside there who could be studied.

-Research Notes of Tsulogothulan Weird of the Uloghai Bog on the nature of the Tyrant Wyrm.