Basilisk

The Basilisk is a large snake-like creature found throughout much of the multi-verse. They are known to have been created through magic sometime during the Mage Wars, probably in the mid First Chaotic Period, though specifics are lacking.

The Ie---chi--n Document

A manuscript recovered from a dig in the early Second Age contains the earliest-known written mention of the basilisk. The document was heavily damages but large sections of the text were still readable. The title is, with 5 of the 11 characters completely unreadable. It has been published under the title of the recovered letters with dashes where the missing characters remain. In academic circles it is referred to as the "itchy" pages, rather derivatively.

The text itself appears to be a day-to-day log of the goings on of a Mage Tower and the village around it. One section speaks of a basilisk terrorizing the townsfolk, and alludes to how it may have been "sent" or created by some un-named foe.

The dig-site in which the document was recovered was a known-Dynastic-era find, but the document appears to be much older, and was found in a cache of goods believed to belong to an early museum.

Based largely on the descriptions given in the document, it has been conclusively dated to sometime early in the First Chaotic Period, possibly as far back as B.G.A. 3500. A small, yet focal contingent of scholars openly maintains that the log dates all the way back to High Tower and in fact the town mentioned is Asysias

Diet

Basilisks do not actually "eat" people, they eat freedom. They turn their prey to stone in order to capture their freedom, and feed off of it.