Acrimos

Acrimos, also known as the Weeping Worm and the Malachite Prince is an ancient green dragon.

He was slain by Aenarion using the *Shooting Star* bow and a *Dragonslayer* arrow.

## History

Acrimos haunts the Wildwood of southwestern Ahlus like a phantom, finding constant conflict with Xelzintarth, also known as Ilemer's Drake. The children's book Into the Regal Forest: Annals of Adventure, seems to make reference to a crying monster, assumed to be Acrimos.

The Scrivener Gift of Honey challenged the Malachite Prince to half a dozen bouts of songcraft, poetry and dance, before being slain by the dragon after claiming to be victorious. His body and worldly possessions are said to be among Acrimos' more treasured possessions. Delighting in corrupting elves into servitude, Acrimos was attended to by a contigency of wood elves, each perpetually weeping in melancholy as they followed him through the Wildwood.

Acrimos was encountered in his lair by a party in early 9WD, and ultimately slain. Before this point, he proved a formidable opponent, moving between ground, wall and air of his lair with a frightening pace - and wherever he moved, a flurry of claw strikes would not be far behind. Delighting in fighting down a single target to drop them unconscious with rapid haste, he referred to such one-sided combat as a dance.

## Description

*"A form, tapered and streaming with the easy efficiency of an arrow freshly loosed shifts across the cavern surface, movement marked only by the shattering of stone beneath razored claws. Olive and pine, moss and fern, dappled scales shimmered faintly in the verdant flames, each fringed with a crystalline malachite shimmer. The dragon moved again, impossibly fast, wings and claws in flurried haze, amber-yellow eyes scouring with malicious intelligence.*"

When Hassk cast *Legend Lore* in an effort to learn more about Acrimos, he was delivered the following description by means of the divination spell.

*“Named malachite for shimmer of scale and glimmer of hoard,”*

*“A sleekness unparalleled, for naught else could move with such pace,”*

*“Amused by dance and poetry, melody and chord,”*

*“Through woe soon comes too for even those of eloquent grace.”*

*“Wreathed in the fogs and mists of the vicinal Wailing Rill,”*

*“A flurry of talon, fang and claws unto those in said hills time spent,”*

*“This servant of sovereign sempiternal through deception finds their thrill,”*

*“And commands those broken into weeping thralldom entrenched in Haunt’s Lament.”*

## Death

After feigning wounds grevious, Acrimos attempted to bargain for his life with the adventuring party that had entered his lair by claiming the doors to his hoard would not open without his will. After such a rouse proved folly, he moved to flee via the series of waterfalls arcing through the caverns of Haunt's Lament. As much of the party gave chase, diving into the water in his wake, he looped back round to strike at those weakened members that remained at the back, using his control over his lair to spring vines and roots to slow the pursuit of those trailing in his path.

As he moved to slay those that remained, he was felled by Aenarion Quelenneth Velenthir, who sprung from the water with his bow in hand to land a fatal strike with a *Dragonslayer* arrow. His head was then taken by the eladrin to mount within his manor.