Hellmouth (town)/IF-12.047

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This article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community. It is just one of many Residents that we've found in the Interdimensional Rumor Mill. You can find more Residents about Hellmouth (town) at their Resident Registry.

Sketch that accompanied one of many reported sightings.

Apocryphal Reports of Yet Another Terrible Taxidermy Courtesy of the Unknown Soul Responsible for the Lion of Gripsholm Castle - or ARYATT for short - is Hellmouth's resident menace, most highly decorated bone-thief, and a self-styled "nemesis supreme" of Houston's Memetohazards Division (which may or may not exist).

ARYATT claims to be the "older sibling" of the Lion of Gripsholm Castle, an 18th-century Swedish lion taxidermy infamous for its poor anatomical accuracy. ARYATT can be presumed to be an earlier attempt by the Lion's taxidermist on a reindeer - a species native to Sweden and (one would hope (until they see ARYATT's musculature)) less unfamiliar to the taxidermist. ARYATT delights in telling passersby in explicit detail about how, exactly, it managed to remove the taxidermist's attempts at cervine facial reconstruction from the neck up - no version of which is appropriate within the scope of this article. ARYATT instead replaces their head with whatever animal parts take its fancy, many of which ARYATT acquires during its part-time job as a Bone Zone Ranger.

How an early-1700s bad taxidermy job from Scandinavia came to the Hellmouth remains a mystery, and will likely remain so while ARYATT's habit of highly fanciful and contradictory stories about itself continues. In recent decades, ARYATT channels this into their writing career, under the pen name Apocrypha L. Clericalerror. Clericalerror is a recurring character in ARYATT's series of young adult fantasy mystery novels, most commonly characterised as a "Detective Fur-bearing trout piloting a taxidermized Roosevelt Elk from the Field Museum of Natural History". (Oddly, a taxidermied Roosevelt Elk had been on display in Chicago's Field Museum, but had vanished around the time of the Great Chicago Blaseball Fire). ARYATT enjoys cult status, partially fuelled by ARYATT's works being routinely slammed by many Chicago personalities for "inaccuracies". ARYATT cites Alaynabella Hollywood as a personal inspiration.

ARYATT has a terrible habit of antagonising people who get unreasonably mad at its elaborate fictions (e.g. the Chicago literary scene), but also notably Vernon T. Brae - founder of the Bone Zone. ARYATT and Brae were not always at loggerheads: Although ARYATT was transparent as all get out about why it wanted free roaming of the Bone Zone when it formed near the Hellmouth, it was respectful of the remains and did prove a reliable volunteer Ranger in the reserve's early days.

It was only once Brae asked ARYATT to stop making up stories about the natural history of the resurrected wildlife that ARYATT took off on a four year mission. It graduated - with honours - from Hellmouth Community College with a double-degree in Bonecourse and Wildlife Management (minoring in Five Fields of Study On Creatures That Are Just Weird Little Guys) becoming a fully certified Bone Zone Ranger. ARYATT then spent its first official day on the job convincing a busload of tourists (blown wildly off-course from Breckenridge) that bones weren't real.

When not being a royal pain in Vernon and the Anti-Tourism Board's ass (or writing its latest novel from its cozy little cottage in Living Horse Point State Park), ARYATT also runs community yoga classes in Living Horse Point State Park. It does not know what yoga is.