King of the Mountain
His name means mountain lion, and they say he killed people with fangs and claws, with a feral thirst for blood.
Some say his mother left him in the wilds to be eaten by wolves, and the mother of evil, Caoránach, found him. They say she raised him with wild wargs and, on his tenth name-day, he razed his home village to the ground.
Others say his father owed a debt to the Devil, and because his own life had little worth, he paid with the life of his firstborn son. They say the Devil trained him to trick the pious and defile innocent souls.
Of course, we now know much of these details are distorted fabrications woven together overtime. With thorough research, we, the Department of Historic Legends and Folklore, have determined fact from fiction and are prepared to share our findings with the Academy of New Sian concerning the life and legend of Beinn Puma, née Ekfolt von Faust agus Gretchen in 1261 Si. Our publication, titled King of the Mountain, details the life of the infamous late-13th century debt-collector, the man directly responsible for the death of over one thousand men, indirectly associated with the destruction of the Siani empire, and mysteriously tied to Sudice's prophesied Child of Blessings, the 2000 year-old prophesy that accurately predicted the return of beasts and monsters.
Professor Andrej W. Martin
Lectures of Historic Sian; Popular Pagan Legends and Folktales
1322 Si