[Done in Rebelle 7]

Cierian hydra are indefinitely long monsters, not even closely related to dragons, that regrow their heads out of their mouths, forming from the tongue. Every 100 years, a hydra will grow a new head and pair of legs, leaving behind the remnants of the old one on the body. Curiously, a hydra seems to grow a new personality every time it grows a new head. The hydra you met ten years ago may not be the same once she grows a new head.

Hydra notably live deep underground in dark caves, or on the peaks of mountains, and are not friendly.

This is a piece of stylized paleoart depicting Jörmungandr, the beast of the north.

Jörmungandr is the given name of an unfathomably large hydra fossil discovered just north of Northwood, in the Neiran Mountains. It is a subject of great interest for all paleontologists and enthusiasts alike, even being considered a sacred place to the indigenous Neirans who live in the mountains. It is also, unfortunately, subject to great controversy, for Northwood's unethical ownership of the fossil's land and the bed it lays on encroaches on territory that was not originally theirs.

Jörmungandr, regardless, is an iconic being of the east and its fossil holds the answers to hundreds of mysteries that scientists have been asking for decades. The only problem is being able to study it. The fossil is estimated to be over 100,000 years old, and Jörmungandr itself - with the unearthed part of its fossil being several miles long and theorized to be many times longer - was estimated to be older than any elder dragon known to history. How it got to Northwood is a mystery, though the leading theory is that it crossed the Highgate-Filokensia land bridge many thousands of years before it was sunk underwater by the hibernating Mustora.

Jörmungandr, unlike its mythological namesake, did not appear to have any adverse effect on the environment of Cier, and may have fed almost solely on ambient arcane energy.