Remorhaz

The Remorhaz looks to be an enormous centipede-like creature normally blue in color but their segmented body can burst into a bright red at a moments notice. running along the length of its neck and back are spikes and/or bumps and its neck has long webbed spines running down the sides. once an arctic variant of wyrm the remoraz was twisted into its current form by the influence of Melkor

Culture

despite its looks the remoraz is not an insect, its looks are a result of melkors influence. it is technically a annelid like wyrms. found exclusively in the arctic regions of the land of famine the remoraz is the regions apex predator, withs its ability to naturally produce a substance comparable to napalm internally it is able to heat itself to a point where its body becomes red hot making anything that touches it either burned horribly or melt on contact. it uses this ability to either send itself into a frenzy in a fight or to sculpt massive tunnels through iceburgs for it to call home

in combat the remoraz is no easy foe when combat first starts it will simply try to bite you to death or swallow you whole but if you hit it once or twice, try to escape, or repeatedly dodge it it will enrage and activate its internal combustion causing weapons that hit it to start to melt and body parts that touch it take alot of fire damage in addition to it starting to flail madly likely head-butting you or even body-slamming you. anyone swallowed hole by a ramoraz will instantly die due to its immense internal heat

History

before melkor there were no ramoraz there were only winter or arctic wyrms. winter wyrms were blue variants of the deserts wyrms that had evolved the ability to create a form of internal napalm to heat itself up so that it could carve tunnels in iceburgs to lure in potential prey. instead of using its powerful sense of touch to detect movement on the sand it lived in it instead had powerful heat detection capabilities to tell if any potential prey dared to enter its tunnels. the legs and eyes that the ramoraz has now are due to its mutation

while many would say that a ramoraz is far more powerful now due to its mutations they dont come without their downsides. a wyrm can live for centuries and still be young but a ramoraz has a life expectancy of only about 30 years