Wyrdwyrms | Slit-Pupil Eye, Bronze Charm & Beaded Fantasy Earrings

No reliable naturalist agrees on what a Wyrdwyrm actually is.

They have been described as serpents, familiars, living charms, failed dragons, animated omens, and, in one particularly irritated field journal, “an unnecessary complication with an eye.”

The disagreement is understandable.

A Wyrdwyrm has no sensible anatomy.

Its body is assembled around a single enormous slit-pupil eye, beneath which sits a broad bronze disk marked with radiating lines like a sun, a wheel, or a seal. Below that hangs a circular lower frame surrounded by beads, bells, or other small objects the creature has either grown, gathered, or stolen. No two specimens seem to agree on which explanation is correct.

They do, however, agree on watching.

Alienne is the stranger of the two in coloration, with a vivid green eye and clustered green-and-black beads hanging beneath its bronze body. It is associated with overgrown paths, unfamiliar footprints, and places that seem perfectly ordinary until one notices that none of the plants are facing the sun. Alienne is not believed to be hostile. It is simply interested in anything it has not seen before, which unfortunately includes nearly everyone.

Wyrdwyrm keepers claim that an Alienne will remain motionless for hours while observing a new object, then investigate it the instant nobody is looking.

This behavior has made inventories difficult.

Omenne, by contrast, prefers to be noticed.

Its red slit-pupil eye watches above crimson accents and a lower ring hung with bronze bells. The bells are not ornamental, according to old accounts. An Omenne rings when it considers something worth announcing.

The difficulty lies in determining what.

A coming storm. An approaching visitor. A dropped spoon. A bad decision about to become considerably worse. One chronicle records an Omenne ringing continuously for three days before a local bridge collapsed; another records the same behavior because someone had hidden sugared figs in a cupboard.

Interpretation remains an imperfect science.

What both creatures share is the strange bronze wheel at the center of their bodies. Faewilde scholars call it the wyrdplate, and some believe it is responsible for the species' peculiar sensitivity to events around them. The radiating marks supposedly shift too slowly to see, aligning themselves with whatever circumstance currently holds the creature's attention.

Others insist the pattern never moves at all.

Those scholars generally stop insisting after spending enough time alone with one.

The lower ring is even less understood. It may be a tail, a sensory organ, a display structure, or simply the place where Wyrdwyrms collect objects they find interesting. Alienne favors beads. Omenne favors bells. Future specimens may settle the argument.

Or complicate it further.

For now, the safest conclusion is also the oldest:

If a Wyrdwyrm is looking at you, behave as though there is a reason.

They rarely explain what they noticed first.

Care Note:

Keep dry and avoid perfume, lotions, sprays, drops, and hard impacts, as moisture and chemicals can dull the glass, beads, bells, and plated metal while sudden jolts may knock the eye cabochons loose from their settings; wipe gently with a soft cloth after wear (a polishing cloth is included with every purchase).