Wind-Witherer

Wind-Witherer is a pair of all-seeing birds who sit at the top of Yggdrasil. Loyal to Yggdrasil, they sabotage the Players and punish whoever may try to get in their way. They have an ever ongoing quarrel with the wyrm Niddhog, who inhabits the roots of the mother tree, with Ratatoskr fueling their hatred against each other, by actively spreading gossip between the two.

They are neutral towards the four Stags and the Norns, whereas they hold an active dislike for Ratatoskr.

For a temporary time period, they held control over the norn Nevaeh, holding part of his treasured army from another world stuck in a Glitch limbo, and only promising to release them if he helped to sabotage their success. This bond, however, was crushed when Nevaeh became a Player himself during the Beta Trials.

Trivia

 * In Norse mythology, Veðrfölnir (Old Norse "storm pale," "wind bleached", or "wind-witherer") is a hawk sitting between the eyes of an unnamed eagle that is perched on top of the world tree Yggdrasil. Veðrfölnir is sometimes modernly anglicized as Vedrfolnir, Vedfolnir or Vethrfolnir.