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Gorehydras are massive, grotesque Wyrms of no clear origin. Like the Bloodboiler, some believe them to be experiments of Asmorium, but this hypothesis is considered to be questionable at best. While they appear to have four heads, these are actually tentacles, the tip of each tentacle can open up to reveal a set of bladed pincers. These Wyrms not only lack heads, they do not have mouths either, though they can still feed through a rather bloody method; the Gorehydra tears a hole into its own body using one of its pincers and shoves its prey inside, the self-created wound heals rapidly through its Ichor. Because of this rapid healing and the durability of their skin, these Wyrms are impossible to kill through traditional Wyrmkilling means, and as of yet, no method of slaying a Gorehydra has been discovered.
During an encounter with the Gorehydra, one Wyrmkiller managed to sever a tentacle, though this did not stop the Wyrm, in fact, the tentacle continued to attack the Wyrmkillers up until it was captured, though unfortunately the rest of the Gorehydra fled. It was discovered that any piece that is cut off from a Gorehydra that is greater than one meter in size does not die, but will slowly regenerate into another Gorehydra. After this was discovered, the people studying the tentacle then drained the Ichor from its body, assuming it would die in this state, but that merely halted the regeneration. Researchers are still trying to discover how one could kill a Gorehydra, though fortunately only two have been seen on mainland Talveria.
None at the moment.
The Gorehydra was not actually based on or named after the mythological hydra, but is in fact based off of the real-world Hydras, this is shown in its appearance and abilities. I'm rather fascinated by those Cnidarians, so basing one of my Wyrms off of them felt like a good idea.