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The most dangerous thing on the Tree — more so than the Excrucians roaming the branches—is an Aaron's Serpent. As the littlest newborn, a child shaped from a pattern in the World Ash's heartwood, an Aaron's Serpent is already bigger than a full-grown man. Before it leaves the comforting innards of Yggdrasil, it is as long as a skyscraper is high and massively muscled all along that length. As an adult, an Aaron's Serpent is easily a hundred miles long; the ancient ones are even longer. They resemble a python in shape unless they have put on a Guise or flat out shifted their shape into something appropriate, but in truth, no verbal description suffices. These Serpents are as much avatars of strength and presence as the Imperators that technically fill those roles.

Aaron's Serpents move with surprising speed. In particular, their heads and necks can lash about with extreme alacrity. They are also extremely easy to annoy—light a fire while on the Tree, even a sheltered fire contained by magic, and you will hear from one in short order. Because they are children of the Tree, they are as divine as any angel or Wildlord. Their presence in Creation brings new and interesting facets of life to be.