While fish can be used as sustenance to the sick, few know that the shell of the yalm lobster can be ground into a medicinal poultice, breaking apart gummy humours in the lungs. As it just so happens, a foul cough has been spreading through House Valentione, from what I can only imagine is an excess of affection between lovers—and I have need of shells to see the house cured of ailment.
Discovered almost simultaneously by three naturalists, this strange creature was also named the “demon worm” and the “goddess worm” until a best-two-out-of-three round of stone-parchment-shears settled the naming problem once and for all. Fiend worms are one of the few baits suitable for aetherfishing, as the vilekin will remain alive in the sludge even when submerged.