The Beitoch (bay-tock)

The fisherfolk of All About Luingern Province tell the legend of the Beitoch, monsters that live in the Ollmhor Sea and are larger than the tallest Tomba tree is high.

The folk that claim to have seen one say they are like enormous snakes that live below the water. The monsters have scales the color of the sea, whip the water into a froth when angry and can only be appeased with the sacrifice of a goat. Otherwise, it is said they chase the fish away, cause storms and crumple boats between their coils.

No one knows how long the monsters have lived below the Ollmhor Sea, but if one looks very carefully at the oldest tapestry that dates back to the first Emperor of Uclandia, you can see a Beitoch in the lower right corner.

While some people claim the Beitoch are mere children's stories meant to keep young ones away from the water, in some early explorer's journals, references to the creatures can be found.

Are they the longest-lived hoax, or are they a real menace to all who must go out on the water? Expeditions have been sent out in sturdy boats after massive storms in hopes that the unsettled weather might prompt the Beitoch to rise to the surface. But these expeditions have either returned without proof, or were never seen again.

But proof may yet exist. A group of children combing the beaches "for pretty rocks" they said, found thin blueish-green scales the size of their heads. Too large to be fish scales, and once examined by multiple older fisherfolk, were declared to be decidedly not belonging to any known type of fish.

In Literature

Among Uclandia's earliest surviving scrolls can be found two passages that speak of monsters below the waves. Scholars that believe in the beasts say these passages are proof that the water holds ancient terrors.