Great Lindworm

Occupation: | * Progenitor of Pomokai Holoholonas and Serpents of Yggdrasil
 * Claws
* Flight
* Dragon fire
* Near-invulnerability

**Great Lindworm** was the moniker of original Serpent of Yggdrasil and Pomokai Holoholonas set to appear in *Little Witch Academia: Witches of Midgard*.

## Personality & Character

Great Lindworm's origin was shrouded in mystery, though a passage in Edda of Vör suggested both it and a serpentine beast that sprang from Ymir's body following his death at hands of Odin the Allfather, Vili, and Ve being one in the same. Retreating into Niflheim, it established the cold and icy realm as its new home and feed on both the realm's abundant magic and roots of Yggdrasil for nourishment. Just as the primordial Jötunn Ymir spawned his progenies from his own body, Great Lindworm gave birth to smaller Serpents of Yggdrasil from scales that broke off from its titanic body and filled the icy wasteland of Niflheim with life. Some of those dragons made their way to other realms such as Midgard, Helheim, and even Muspelheim and adapted there, evolving into various breeds in accordance of environment of their new home.

When the Nine Realms fell into chaos as the result of Ragnarök, the great war between the Gods of Asgard and Jötnar, Great Lindworm took refuge at Midgard. It's presence there proved problematic for humanity, as its mere movement caused earthquakes that break mountains, empty lakes and destroy cities. Even so, it never displayed any open hostility to humans it came across and left them alone most of the time, leading Beatrix Cavendish, one of the Nine Olde Witches, and Skaði, the Nordic Winter Goddess and Frost Jötunn, to set out for studying the legendary beast and if possible, communicate with it. At first, Great Lindworm ignored every attempt the duo made to speak with it until it eventually relented, telling them its origins and why it came to the realm of men in the first place. Through the time they spent together, the three became unlikely friends, with Great Lindworm allowed to stay under the condition where it must never disturb human populate.

Unfortunately, at the height of the conflict between the Gods of Asgard and Jötnar which eventually took its place in Midgard, Great Lindworm was forced to break their promise when the treacherous Jötunn Loki subdued the legendary beast and turned it against both the Gods and their transcendent witch allies Nine Olde Witches as both his thrall and greatest weapon. When Loki instructed the primordial beast to kill Beatrix and Skaði however, this proved to be the Jötunn's undoing, as Great Lindworm turned against him and assisted Heimdall in defeating the former God of Mischief, ensuring the victory of allied forces of the Gods of Asgard and Nine Olde Witches. But both Heimdall and Great Lindworm were slain by Loki in return and worse, the latter's death released Eitr coursing in its very being which threatened to ravage entire Midgard. To prevent this and honor the Great Lindworm's sacrifice, Woodward and Beatrix channeled both the power of Claiomh Solais and Yggdrasil itself to purify its corpse and the released Eitr, the process which both spawned plant-like creatures collectively christened as Pomokai Holoholonas from its flesh.

After Ragnarök, some of Great Lindworm's scales were taken by would be founders of Valkyrie Corps., a band of Thapolian witch-blacksmiths led by Ingrid. Studying the scales, Ingrid and her cohorts discovered means to process them into Solais Metal, a special alloy that became the source of the coven's weapons and armor as well as opened the possibility of replicating wondrous abilities of Claiomh Solais. To honor the legendary beast's sacrifice during the War however, they stopped procuring more scales after forging first five Valkyrie Armors (Kara, Skogul, Geirskogul, Eir, and Geirdriful) and turned to remains of a Blue Eldthur in their possession as alternate source for the alloy. Eventually, they sealed Blue Eldthur's remaining body parts away in favor of latest iteration of Solais Metal that is made of iron smelted with scales of Great Lindworm's descendant species Crystaltail Dragons and processed with formula based on surviving notes pertaining Claiomh Solais' magic.

### Skills and Abilities

**Primordial Lindworm Physiology**: As mentioned in Edda of Vör, Great Lindworm was one of the most powerful beings in Nine Realms, endowed with immense biological and magical abilities that can only be matched by entities with god-like power. In fact, this was the very reason Loki sought to exploit its incalculable might during the Ragnarök to even his odds against Gods of Asgard's new allies Nine Olde Witches in the first place and its scales were originally used as the core material to develop original iteration of Solais Metal and with it, Sky Valkyrie Armor and Elemental Valkyrie Armors.

* **Supernatural Strength**: Befitting to its size, Great Lindworm possessed a great deal of brute force; a single flap of its enlarged wings could create destructive hurricane, its mere movements could cause earthquakes, and a swipe of its tail or arms could demolish entire forests and topple mountains alike.
* **Supernatural Durability**: Great Lindworm's body was said to be extremely resilient to damage to the point of only higher beings such as deities or Nine Olde Witches that can harm it.
* **Flight**: Great Lindworm's normally small wings can be enlarged for flying.
* **Dragon Fire**: Much like dragons, Great Lindworm can breathe streams of searing hot flame and vapour from his mouth. Due to feeding on Yggdrasil's magic along with the cosmic tree's roots for sustenance, its dragon fire was not only more potent to the point of able to cut through mountaints like hot knife with butter at full power, but also possessed a unique property that allowed Great Lindworm to empower beings it choose with said fire.
* **Intelligence**: Contrary to most people's perception about it, Great Lindworm was capable of higher reasoning and could understand other species' language than it let on. That was how Beatrix Cavendish managed to communicate with and even befriend the legendary beast in the past.
* **Eitr Blood**: Being directly conceived from Eitr like the first Jötunn Ymir, Great Lindworm possessed an abundance of harmful energies within its body that would be released all at once upon its death, necessitating Woodward and Beatrix to purify both it and said energy to prevent the worst. The description in Edda of Vör suggested the energy being Eitr itself, which was made sense given how its exposure to magic of both Yggdrasil and Claiomh Solais spawned Pomokai Holoholonas to begin with.

## Notes & Trivia

* Design-wise, Great Lindworm was inspired by The Serpent from *Banner Saga* trilogy and both are beings with incalculable might. The horns and supernumerary fingers around its hands on the other hand, are inspired by Makai Dragons from *Zero: Dragon Blood*, one of spin-offs of tokusatsu series *GARO*.