The King Under the Mountain

I have mentioned Wyverx briefly before so today i will write about him in a little more detail.

Wyverx was a quiet achiever.  He would disappear into the mountain for hours at a time and only come back to the deed to sleep.  Every now and then he would ask for help to make a particular tool but even these requests started getting fewer and fewer.

When questioned he would say he was making a little base up in the mountain in one of the other craters.

I would visit from time to time while out hunting and find the area not changed much. A small shack, maybe a small walled off area would appear over time.

One day while smithing and chatting I asked if he was due a new set of armour and was surprised when he said no thanks.  We got to talking about what he was doing up there and he said that he had been practising mining and had needed to do something with all the ore he had mined so had made several sets of armour.

From that point on we would joke about him hiding in his cave in the mountain and didn't think much more of it.

Until the day he offered us some rock to make bricks for our walls...  I took a cart up the mountain and was hanging around outside his shack waiting for him when he popped out of the rock face next to me.

He led me into a cave that was 3 x 3 wide and reinforced on all sides.  It was filled to the brim with BSB's and carts.  I immediately named it the secret stash and was suitably impressed.

Wyverx then showed me the tunnel.  He was not a fighting type and was sick of all the animals attacking him on his way up the hill so had decided to do what he did best and created a tunnel all the way from his hideout down close to our deed for protection.  I had never seen a tunnel so long and it was reinforced all the way down with silver lamps every few tiles.

Turns out the whole time he was up there he was mining and making things.

Over time he became so good at mining he needed better ore than what was in the local area so I showed him where a better vein was on the other side of the mountain.  I assumed like us he would cart over to the other side every now and then but turns out I had underestimated Wyverx yet again.

When his masterpiece was complete he invited me up to have a look.  Wyverx had tunneled through the entire mountain aiming directly at the vein and had hit it spot on.  Again there was lanterns every few tiles... I think he had grown afraid of the dark from all that time underground.

From this day on his legend grew.  Some people would call him a ninja as he would appear from nowhere when least expected.  I heard stories of people settling in our area only to have Wyverx pop up in the middle of their so called "secure" compound.

As his reputation in the area grew some people called him the King Under the Mountain.