Old Worm

Old Worm

The Old Worm

The immortal criminal Hector Vargas, who became the "Purple Worm " found the ancient temple complex inside a mountain on Alvor's Cove. It has been guarded and maintained by the "Brown People ". The complex was dedicated to a Worm like creature that supposedly was a god, and occupied by a long-vanished priest sect that wore purple robes and worm masks. The exact reason, the name of the worm god has been forgotten. But it has been used by Hector to create the Purple Worm character.

Ban-Hoo, the planet-bound Dai scavenger on Alvor's Cove : >>> Why the Kermac wanted to go to the Old Worm was none of his business. How they even knew about that odd Hermite ? But then Kermac had Psionic powers and could read minds and such. Some of the Scavengers believed the Old Worm was the result of a failed genetic experiment to mix human genetics with Nul and come up with a Nul that could spy on humans or something like that. That experiment resulted, so the story went, in a horrible abomination. And it was hiding out there, avoiding to be seen as much as possible. Other voices claimed, the Old Worm to be a holy man and that he had contact to some God. Much older than the Celtest ship story was the rumor of a hidden temple with a sleeping powerful supernatural entity. This legend also based on real facts. Alvor's sun flared and cooked of the vast oceans that once covered this desert. The flare and the duration of it, was according to many an artificial purposely created event. Ban-Hoo had no particular opinion on that legend, but he knew the desert before him once was an ocean floor. Countless shells of water creatures attested to that. He doubted the old worm was a god, but that he might be considered some sort of spiritual guide was conceivable, that he looked half man, half worm was nothing too spectacular. He was Dai and his kind had traveled far and wide, encountering life forms much stranger. <<<