Coimirceoir Grubs

Coimirceoir Grubs a now extinct species of silk worm that spun threads with colour deep as night and twinkled like the stars, when woven into a sheet it was as if night itself was imbued into a fabric. They are revered in the World Below as the most sacred creature, having them held in vast rooms lavished with food fed to them constantly by a devoted throng of nobles and peasants alike.

The Olliors were believed to be the first to harness this silk, and were partially at fault of causing their extinction. The extinction of these mighty worms was because of the Darreinholts and Olliors, fighting for the precious silks, with the worms getting caught between the two houses. Legend says that there was once two moons that drifted across the night sky, and that the Coimirceoir Grub were once beautiful and terrible butterflies that filled the skies. One night, they grew hungry for the beauty of the moon that loomed so closely over head, so they ate her. Upon the rising of the second moon she saw her sister had been eaten, and decided to curse the Butterflies into hideous grubs that eternally hungered. The cursed butterflies found the flesh of the men that fell from the sky tasted so much of the moon, and devoured so many of them.

The fallen men drove the throngs of grubs underground where they were forgotten, where they went blind and mad. Where they learned to lift the curse of the moon, by weaving her a patch of night and cocooning themselves in it, to come out as a moth only the shadow of their once former glory.

Some people say that they ate flesh of men to gain their powers to fight the moon, others say they devoured meteorites that were crumbs from the moon they ate, and others say in desperation and in remorse they disciplined themselves to eat moss that grew deep in the bowels of the earth.