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In nature, among every species there are individuals that exceed in strength and size of their relatives.  Three-headed hydras are no exception.

Among all species of three-headed has always been characterized by large size, strength, endurance and longevity (not counting individuals Mythic class), but the lower rate of tissue regeneration among the rest, which does not prevent it to grow a new head in 3-4 days. Due to this feature, many novice adventurers consider them the weakest among the other hydra species, not even realizing the difference in strength and size with the rest of the hydra species.

The average size is about 14-16 artelia (1 meter - is 2 artelia) height with raised head, and 35-40 in length and weighing 30 dorzh (dorzh = 0.5 tons), while a large individual of the second largest species (five-headed) is less than half as much. They live on average about 150 to 300 years. Carnivores, having eaten enough can hibernate for up to 5 years, during which they will grow faster.

Three-headed hydras are quite rare. They live mostly in swamps or forests with a humid climate, in dungeons even rarer, as they prefer open places, and meeting with them with a hundred percent probability ends in death even for adventurers of medium ranks. Due to this, only adventurers from mithril can deal with it

But as stated earlier, there are individuals of the species that are 2 or more times the si.

not to mention the creature's strength. This is explained by the fact that the individual during a long period of life was under the influence of magical particles (lived among magical crystals, springs, etc.) or fed on the meat of animals saturated with them, and versatile development. Increased size, strength, life span, and intelligence. Due to increased intelligence, all heads begin to develop and learn, in connection with which they acquire a predisposition to one of the elements (releases fire, ice breath, etc.) or acquires an additional organ (for example, poison-acid glands), and each head becomes distinguishable from the other, unlike ordinary individuals. The body acquires the properties of all three heads. It is not known exactly how long these individuals live, but more than 600 years from the records of one elven chronicler.

His name was Aiwandel Meine Astrius. He wrote that he documented the battle of two heroes with the same creature called Skralxis the Calamity of the North, which brought terror to the northern kingdoms, which considered humans its favorite treat. The first hero was able to supposedly mortally wound it and throw it off a cliff into a gorge, additionally burying it under rubble.

576 years later, a mountain range collapsed in the same place, releasing the hydra. A week later, a few ardeus (1 ardeus =1.5km) from that place, some prince's escort passed by to hunt with a former hero and a group of hired high-ranking adventurers (adamantine and platinum) for a giant boar, the same prince. A little later Skralxis came upon them, weakened and probably very hungry. The creature, though weakened, managed to eat half of the prince's escort and kill almost all of the adventurers before its head was severed by a series of blows from the Hero that cost him his life. It was later revealed that this hydra was indeed Skralxis, and its body became a valuable resource in terms of enrichment, magic and scientific research of the local kingdom.

The second, as he writes, was called Mortus the Eater of Thousands, a terrible name, but deserved.

And all happened because of the arrogance and stupidity of the king and hero in one of the southern kingdoms called Larnis. By some miracle they got information about the whereabouts of the same monster as Skralxis, whose carcass (body, head and other) became the cause of enrichment and before that not poor kingdom. Hydra wanted to kill and get rich, it's simple. Since the old hero one such killed, and they can, they gathered all the elite knights and nano the majority of high-ranking adventurers (silver and gold rank) in the capital guild. But things didn't go the way they wanted. They found a hydra in a cave and engaged in combat and the hero was even able to wound it, but it turned out to be a disaster. In the end the hero and almost everyone who came with him was killed and eaten. Enraged and furious, the hydra followed the trail of the escapees and caught up with them, encountering and devastating one village after another along the way. The creature caught up with the last of them near the capital and began to rampage through the city, unleashing rivers of blood and feasting on the streets. That day the Kingdom of Larnis was gone, the entire royal family was killed, the capital was destroyed, the hero was killed by the monster, the casualties among the troops and civilians numbered in the thousands, most of the population left the country and became refugees in other kingdoms. The coalition of southern kingdoms gathered a squad of two heroes and the strongest adventurers to kill the monster, but the monster was never found, and the former kingdom was decided to divide among the others. And from that very day, the hydra that inhabits the territory of the former kingdom of Larnis was called Mordus the Thousand Eater.

The fall of the kingdom of Larnis occurred 56 years after the death of Skralxis Calamity of the North.

Because of this chronology, some minds believe that these individuals can live virtually forever for human time-perception.

In all of human history, only two such monsters have been known, both ranked as Legend. In both cases, only Heroes could fight these individuals, injuring or killing them.

1 meter = 2 ardeus

1 ardeus = 1.5 kilometers.

dorge =0.5 tons