Miirym

Miirym, known as the Sentinel Wyrm, was the most peculiar guardian of Candlekeep.

Personality
Miirym was a very lonely being and her main aspiration was finally flying again the blue sky. She was cynical of people that promised to help her, she saw too many failed in her long life. In life Miirym loved green growing things and also like jokes. Her sanity was not strong and if someone tried to trick or snack her she unlashed upon all her fury.

Activities
Miirym passed her endless days patrolling the tunnels and passage under Candlekeeep searching for possible intruders. She disparately want chatting with someone, and when met intruders first she tried speaking to them in order to understood their intentions. She always want known what happened in Faerun. However if visitors had books with them she insisted that they must took the books to her so she can put in the "legitimate" place in Candlekeep ( in her mind ALL books belonged to Candlekeep). Sometimes a monk as an especially cruel punishment was send to pass some time with Miirym.

History
Miirym had her lair in a lone dark pillar just offshore from Ulgoth's Beard, a lair used by her family dating from 2 DR and her domain arrived to comp rend coastal lands between the High Moor and the Sea of Swords (as far offshore as Mintarn), south as far as the Cloud Peaks, and north to Mount Helimbrar. Miirym however a time laired temporarily near Candlekeep and during a hunt she devoured some scholars and destroyed a score of irreplaceable books. So the powerful archsorcerer Torth bound her to the keep: for repair her damage she must protected the keep for twenty years. However after fifteen years Torth died and his magic was so powerful that nobody succeed in breaking his magic binding to Miirym.

So Miirym became a captive in servitude. From this point she became more savage in protect the keep, slaying intruders with no remorse.

She however had an hard time in the Year of the Shieldtree (1181 DR) when a band of calishite wizards with a very elaborate spell attacked Candlekeep. She defeated the calishite but they tried again in the Year of the Tomb (1182 DR) and in that battle Miirym died.

That was not the end however, the spell of Torth resurrected her but as undead and with the mind not entirely sane. What remain was a malevolent but diligent invisible guardian force. Scared the monk hired some wizards to destroy her for good but no wizards managed to unbound the Torth's magic; only with the sacrifice of a group of monk was possible confining Miirym to the labyrinthine complex of caverns and passages beneath Candlekeep.

She remained there from that day, guarding the keep from down from any visitors or intruders.

Appearances

 * Magazines:
 * Dragon #247 ("Miirym, 'the Sentinel Wyrm'")