Alikar speaks to Menelcund (Oral Tradition)
Alikar: Shall we cease this great struggle?
Menelcund: Great struggle? Look upon my figure with unclouded eyes.
Alikar: Shall we cease this grave injustice?
Menelcund: Injustice? Do you strike the birds from their nests and call their pecking unjust?
Alikar: Then instead may we both rest?
Menelcund then pondered for some time. Finally a sigh that could whip the ocean into a froth escaped his great mouth.
Menelcund: Yes, for though I am great, I am weary. I shall rest here in your trees greatest branches.
Alikar: My people are weary to the last. We will rest below where the mist of the firmament touches not.
Thus was peace found by the second king of the Cundon in Ambar and Menelcund remains in restful slumber in the highest canopies.
In the distant canopy of the Ambar Tree the Elves acquiesce their claim to the sacred natural monument once its branches escape to the firmament beyond the clouds. When the Ambar Tree first prodded the misty realm Menelcund laid his claim. Alkar Minui the first king of the Ambar Tree post rebirth fought Menelcund for seven long centuries before his son Alikar Atya took the throne and brokered an agreement of dual ownership. Menelcund could keep all of the Ambar Tree which pierced the clouds’ base and the Elves of Beleg gúl would retain their hold on its lower-canopy, heartwood and roots.
Description
Menelcund is said to be more than a mile in length, made of a thick insectoid carapace. He moves swiftly about the massive branches of the treetops with 528 legs, sprouting in pairs every twenty feet. He is wider easily than ten elves standing shoulder to shoulder and his many great wings have a span that can cast shadows across entire cities. His face resembles that of a Giant Spider but replacing the eight eyes is an abundance uncountable staring in all directions. His tail tapers quickly into a deadly whip which he flicks to devastating effect. During the war with Alkar Minui, Menelcund felled great swaths of forest with every swing of his razor sharp tail, and many more brave soldiers.