Jormungar



Jormungar are creatures that can be encountered in Northrend in World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. They have muscular, flattened bodies with rows of crystalline spines along either flank.

From The Wrath of the Lich King Bestiary:
 * The fiercely aggressive jormungar are a marvel of evolution, possessing rows of chisel-like teeth capable of boring through solid rock, as well as muscular, flattened bodies well adapted to rapid underground navigation.


 * Legends tell of the nerubians' using the jormungar as creatures of labor, forcing them to carve massive tunnels through Northrend's subterranean ice and lay the groundwork for the nerubians' ancient civilization. With the fall of the nerubian empire, swarms of rogue jormungar ran amok, drilling through the region's permafrost, attacking surface dwellers, and devouring everything in their path.

The jormungar no longer serve the nerubians, undead or otherwise, in any capacity any longer. Scourged Burrowers are similar creatures with a similar function for them.

Stages
There are multiple stages of jormungar: The egg sac, what the Jormungar Tunneler is, the regular jormungar (called a jormungar larva in the model flies), and the jormungar wyrm (called just a jormungar in the model files). The wyrm stage is more ruggedly featured, and partially submerged at all times (with some exceptions). Before the above bestiary entry was added, the name of the unrevealed race was "jormungar wrym".

Myth
The name is a reference to or inspired by the World Serpent of Nordic mythology,, which was said to be so large that its tail had to be stuffed into its mouth to prevent it growing larger than the world. was one of the three children of Loki, the mischievous Aesir God of Nordic mythology. In the quest Quest:The Slithering Darkness, the quest giver says that the jormungar are the children of Loken, whose name is inspired by Loki.