The legend of the Lirio beast

Tale as old as time, and mostly written in the old human tongue, it vanished long ago from the classical stories mother tell children at night, mostly because no one really knew how to describe it or it's actions.

Summary

There was an anciant Gaisgain legend of a mythical beast resting in the Lirio forest. A creature that had many descriptions, very different from one another, but some things were commont to most vertions:

The size of a small bear or big feline: should reach the mid-section of a man when on all fours
Described as a quadrupede, mostly carnivorous with the exception of deer-like creatures: mention of canines but also horns/antlers
Of an unnatural color for any animal that could ressemble it: never described as fauve, brown or beige, but as white, grey or even green for most stories
Half the stories speak of a beast capable of coherent speech, the rest tell inhuman screeches and bellowing.

When looking into animist cultures and myths of the Ulana, there has been stories of not only objects and animals having a soul, but also places such as a mountain, a forest, a lake etc. The myth of the Lirio Beast ressembles these stories, but it is told through the eyes of the very religious Gaisgain, who do not practice animism at all, and have little but fearfull feelings towards such legends. Examinating the books retelling this myth will teach you that it was feared, to the point of travellers having to swear oaths of truth on the lives of their loved ones to promise never to investigate the myth or the forest. Sadly, the contacts with elvish communities came way to late and the legend had alwready been buried under the tons of knowledge of libraries and forgotten to rot.
This can still make us wonder if the Ulana populations of the Mounts Oendanlga did not originate from early mens on the continent.

Historical Basis

The way the Gaisgain reacted to the myth prevented them from actually proving this to be true (or not). It does give the information that early human populations on the continent of Forgloir migrated from West to East coast, making us wonder of their were not in fact originating from Nahamira at one point, an basculing the debate onto the origins of men (wich, knowing Gaisgaich's story with religion, is not something you'd want to discuss with them).
Nevertheless, if it was of easier acces, the knowledge of such early myths and legends could tell a lot about the coming about of the foundation of the kingdom, and probably about the geographical situation of South West Forgloir. This little enclave of land between the Bellanic Sea and the Losghadh Sea is left undescribed even tho it probably bears many years of history, both human and the history of the continent itself.

Spread

It's believed to have been a common belief, dated of the time Gaisgain (or their ancestors) lived on the West coast, South the Lirio forest. The isolation Gaisgaich suffered when the human population crossed the Noere river/ Losghadh sea for unknow yet reasons, has greatly cut the cultural connections Gaisgaich and Nahamira could have build and prevented many early Gaisgain myths to travel overseas. The legend was written, but never in the new tongue used in the kingdom, and it is very hard to learn about the myth this days.

Variations & Mutation

It seems as if every story of this myth is different, indicating that it has been an oral legend for many many years, probably centuries before being written, this time again in many vertions.