Airdruuma, the Cyclical

Airdruuma

Airdruuma is a being of patterns, thriving through music, rhythm, and motions of the world like the tides. They are known to appear to those who see them as a massive worm that constantly wriggles to and fro, never ceasing. Airdruuma's followers tend to stand for keeping the order of the world, following its cycles and moving with them. Some of the greatest of songs have been written by the followers of Airdruuma who claim to have felt the rhythm of the god's cycles moving through the earth below them. Airdruuma is often represented by a picture of a worm that has enveloped its own tail, forming a circle.

Fable

“Long were the passages of time that the great and grandiose Airdruuma spent carving his way through the vast stretches of stone, sand, and soil that were granted unto him to thrive.

He reveled in playing with the waters, carving passages through mountains and seas, listening to the rushing of the streams as they chased him through the tunnels and caves he left in his wake.

Unbeknown to him, his consumption and crafting of the earth around him had caught the attention of other life on the surface. His presence caused the earth to tremble and tear, but it also brought prosperity and growth.

The mortals above the surface had taken due note of his influence on the land, and how he caused the waters to move to and from the caves and mountains. The prosperity seemed to move with him, as the recursions of the tremors brought both the ebb and flow of the water that the fishermen sailed, and the richness of stone and soil that the farmers tilled and kept.

As people noticed and tried to comprehend Airdrumma’s behaviour, some began to chart his influences and map the caves, while others tried to learn it’s language by replicating the  whistles of the caves and the drumming of the lands. 

The music seemed to go hand in hand with the wealth of the harvest; the tremors became softer and the food became more and more plentiful.

And so the people grew happier, and music grew ever louder. 

This caught the attention of the worm.

He tunneled around the lands, searching for the ones that sounded like him.  As he breached the surface for the first time, showing himself to the ones who lured him, all fell silent again.

The mortals ceased their musing and fled for their safety, while the earth was being split in two, leaving the Patruin River in his wake. 

Airdruuma was once again alone.

He cautiously continues to tunnel beneath the earth and sea, occasionally surfacing and breaking the earth once more, searching for that rhythm he once felt from the surface.”