Threadwyrms

Scientific Name: Serpentes filum (unconfirmed)
Common Name: Threadwyrms
Classification: Serpentine Fauna — Exotic Realm Species

Description:
Threadwyrms are slender, silk-bodied serpents inhabiting the surfaces of mirrors and polished glass within the Pale Country. Their semi-transparent bodies weave in and out of reflected images, appearing more as shifting patterns than solid creatures. Their movement is hypnotic and slow, resembling the weaving of threads through fabric.

Known Effects on Humans:
Threadwyrms are believed to record and entangle memories within the reflective surfaces they inhabit, making them crucial to the Pale Country’s court proceedings and lore.
Contact or proximity to Threadwyrms can result in vivid hallucinations or fragmented memory recall.
Their bite or touch can cause temporary loss of speech and cognitive coherence, effectively unraveling language.
Individuals suffering from unexplained amnesia or speech disorders in the borderlands have been linked to Threadwyrm exposure.

Behavioral Notes:
They cannot leave reflective surfaces and rarely leave their mirrored habitats.
Often congregate in groups resembling threads woven into complex patterns, which some interpret as symbolic storytelling.
Legend suggests they are former oracles or truth-tellers punished and bound to glass.

Warnings / Dangers:
Bites from Threadwyrms cause loss of linguistic abilities and disorientation; recovery requires ritualistic memory weaving.
They may be used by the Pale Court to silence witnesses or suppress inconvenient truths.
Physical destruction of their mirrored habitats is forbidden and causes unpredictable backlash in local time flow.
Avoid direct eye contact with reflections inhabited by Threadwyrms.