Purple Worm (Basic Lore)

Purple Worm (Heavy; CR 14)
Neutral - Gargantuan - Magical Beast
This creature possesses the Heavy role, and therefore counts as 2 monsters for purposes of encounter size, XP award, and treasure. This monster frequently has the Heavy role, but may be set to other roles if desired. Purple worms are enormous worms with purple plated hides and gigantic mouths filled with sword-like teeth. Purple worms are renowned burrowers, but can be found nearly anywhere. Their unique physiology allows them to easily adapt to hot and cold climates with equal indifference. Purple worms are drawn to vibrations, and will approach areas being disturbed, usually messily consuming anything they find. This makes them particularly hazardous to miners, as well as those building new construction in unsettled areas. Strangely enough, the worms will tend to shy away from areas with a LOT of vibrations, perhaps out of some instinctual avoidance of things which might prove large enough to kill them. As a result, purple worms rarely threaten large cities or large herds of animals, and far more frequently prey on small groups on the outskirts of civilization. Purple worms burrow by way of eating everything in front of them and can digest stone and metals as easily as flesh, though it is unclear if one of these things provides more nutrition than another. Fighting Purple Worms is a task for the truly heroic, or those with access to siege weapons. To make matters worse, Purple Worms are poisonous, and nearly impossible to 'finish off', as they will shed segments as they are damaged and seek to attack anew just when you think they are finally dead.