Cackles (Tail-Bite)

Tail-Bite is energetic and has an unwaveringly good attitude about life. He is hopelessly friendly. He sees everyone he meets as a potential companion and always offers to share his warrens and his meals. This wyrm is also nervous and is afraid of being left alone. He fares poorly when his "friends" leave and will slip into periods of melancholy until a new potential friend arises. He is not popular among wyrms due to his strange laugh, odd rituals, and poor social skills. The fishermen in the region will sometimes share their catch with Tail-Bite and visit him on his favorite beach with stories of the mainland. Being an avid swimmer, he has been known to help dislodge smaller boats from the nearby reefs and sandbanks.

Tail-Bite has the unique ability to befriend virtually any sapient creature that comes his way. Whether he wins them over through pity or charisma, he is undeniable in his pursuit of companionship and adventure. As far as physical abilities, he is an exceptional digger (as are all wyrms), a strong swimmer, and is quite agile.

Wyrms are social creatures and being alone has made Tail-Bite a nervous fellow. At times, he can be clingy and desperate if he feels that he is going to be left alone. A traumatic series of experiences as a young juvenile have also made him what might be best described as "odd". He has a chronic anxious laugh, paces in circles, and has replaced his lost welter (family) with painted boulders, to whom he speaks. Although harmless behaviors, this has led to him being rejected by other wyrms who pass through the island. He is terrified of storms and of passing aerial vessels.

The island of Ninrihm was once populated by welter of wyrms who claimed the land as their territory. Tail-bite was the eldest wyrmling of the welter, born of the patriarch One-Ear and his mate, Tail-Break. Although peaceful to the fullest extent, warring human factions in the region collided in an aerial battle over the island, leading to the rapid demise of Tail-Bite's welter. He was the sole survivor and rapdily had to learn to hunt and to survive on his own. He persevered through great difficulty, but his lack of knowledge of the world beyond Ninrihm and the island's isolation led to decades of solitude. Wyrms actively avoided the unsafe island and it took many years for the human wars to finally end and fishermen to return.

Having been orphaned so young, Tail-Bite did not know there were lands beyond his small island. He knew of the boats and the fishermen, but had little understanding of the vastness of the world. It was not until well in his adulthood that he finally ventured beyond his island, and found a curious world that was friendly to wyrms and filled with a startling variety of people and wyrms from different regions. Though still starved for interaction and attention, Tail-Bite quickly became overwhelmed and returned home, his meagre curiosity for the world beyond having been satiated.

A singular wyrm is a tragic thing, and though it took many years, Tail-Bite finally found his match on a neighboring island, who thought him keen and humorous. Bone-Break left her island, leaving behind her well-established welter to become Tail-Bite's mate. Initially he found the isolation tiresome, but soon discovered the ease of travel between the islands and visitied her place of origin frequently. Together, they had many nurslings, though their welter never grew beyond their immediate family due to the island's dark history and limited resources.