The Bone Snake of Mistfall Valley

The story of the bone snake of Mistfall Valley is about a large serpent, with rattling bones for a body, that lives in a den deep within the misty valley in the Frost Mountains. Hundreds of tales and folklore have been told, describing a bloodthirsty creature who kills whoever makes their way within the valley. The most frightening thing about the story is the bones and skeletal remains that can be found around the mist on the mountainsides, believed to be the unfortunate travellers who lost their lives to this monstrous creature.

Summary

The Bone Serpent has not actually been seen by anybody alive today. Many believe it waits for things to fall in and eats it.
Over 7 thousand years ago, the slow moving rock golems in the peaks of the Frost Mountain Range started describing a terrifying snake creature within Mistfall Valley, that was over a hundred feet long, glaring red eyes, a terrifying stare, and its entire body being a skeletal carcass that has rotted over a thousand years. Throughout history many different civilisations that live in these mountains have depicted a snake made of bones in various ways, the oldest Kozkonyonyaosi tribe drew the snake with large spines and a sail, the Cave Rocklins that live in Blue Mountain describe it with 6 yellow eyes and small legs.

Spread

The Bone Snake is one of the lesser known Kaltian myths in the world, however very famous in the Frost Mountain Range due to the Mistfall Valley being so large and mysterious.

Cultural Reception

Every single culture, ethnicity and species that describes this creature within their history all fear this being, and some have built sacrificial statues where they sacrifice ones that have passed, burying them underneath the statue in large holes to please the snake and hope that it does not attack their villages.

In Art

In the Hall of Majesties in Horruin, a tapestry is hung down the large main corridor, with a giant picture of the bone snake woven into it. It sits alongside many other mythical creatures in Kaltian lore, such as the Bunbunyi and the Frost Walker.
Date of First Recording
-5000 (Rock Golems wrote stories of them on stone tablets)

How do other cultures view it?

Rock Golems

Rock golems were giants that live in the steep areas of the Frost Mountain Range. They were the first group of people to record information on this location and creature, writing stories on their giant stone tablets that rest on the mountainside. Over 7000 years ago did these stone tablets start to appear.  

Kozkonyonyaosi

The Kozkonyonyaosi started writing stories about their travels, and are now stored in libraries for others to read. People that go on explorations near Mistfall Valley often end up writing about it, and others are always keen to read these stories, to gather more information on this mystery.   This creature is featured on several banners, icons and logos for various things in the Frost Lands, the best example is the banner held in the corridor within the Hall of Majesties in Horruin.  

Cave Rocklins

Cave Rocklins exist as a small tribe within the interconnected cave system below Blue Mountain. They are considerably the most fearful of this creature, and have placed doors within each entrance to the caves that are incredibly difficult to break through, believed to have been built so the snake does not get in. The rocklins have also created cave paintings of what they believe the undead serpent looks like, with 6 beaming yellow eyes and spikes along its spine.

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Jul 10, 2021 11:58 by Annie Stein

This is a really cool creature, and I love how you have multiple different depictions of it from various people. You've got a lot of good stuff in this article, but it's undermined by the way that you've organized the information.   Under the heading "Summary" you talk about cultural depictions of the bone snake, why isn't that under each respective cultures part of "How do other cultures view it?" Why is the first sentence of your summary that noone alive today has seen it?   I'd recommend moving the paragraph under Cultural Reception to your introduction. It tells you a lot about what this Bone Snake means to the people, and why we should care about it. Your current introduction needs an edit too, it's kind of confusing that you start out by saying "the story" implying there's only one, and then immediately follow it up with a sentence about how there's hundreds of tales.   I noticed these two aren't the only sentences that feel like rewrites of the sentence before it. Where the information is more or less repeated, but slightly different. This also happens under Kozkonyonyaosi:   The Kozkonyonyaosi started writing stories about their travels, and are now stored in libraries for others to read.   People that go on explorations near Mistfall Valley often end up writing about it, and others are always keen to read these stories, to gather more information on this mystery.   These two sentences are just too similar to be right after eachother. The first beat is about how travellers write stories about their travels, and the second is that others want to read them.   I'd also recommend taking a second pass on your grammar. There's a couple times where the tense shifts in the middle of a sentence, and incorrect pronouns.   I think with some edits, this article will be really awesome!

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