Kan

Massive serpents created by Kanmare who hunt the children of Ea across Saunderlin's Waste. These massive snakes can reach over half a mile long and can devour entire rockbacks if they are unprotected.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Kan can range in size and shape, large kan can reach more than 3000 feet long. Powerfully built they glide over the sand in a zig zag pattern that cuts through dunes. There fangs drain magic from their pray, withering any magical creature they bite. Constant moving across the sand elongates the scales on their lower body, weakening them for attacks from underneath.

Biological Traits

Kan are asexual and reproduce through fragmentation.

Genetics and Reproduction

Kan feed on magical energy in order to split their bodies when they grow to large to sustain themselves.

Growth Rate & Stages

Kan are formed through fragmentation and maintain the memories of their previous form. After fragmentation a kan will return to its previous size in about 5 years. Where without a significant influx of magical energy, they will need to fragment again. If a kan is unable to fragment when they are unable to sustain themselves, they will still automatically attempt it to sustain their life, they will burst upon the sand, leaving a feast for other desert inhabitants.

Ecology and Habitats

Kan where created to traverse the Saunderlin Waste, there large scales allow for swift movement across the sand.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Kan hunt the desert for rockback and unwary Tortles from Ea. They only need to consume creatures with high concentrations of magic in order to split and reproduce.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Kan will call other kan to them when they are hunting prey, outside of hunting they are solitary creatures.

Facial characteristics

Kan have 2 massive fangs that extend out of their upper pallet when they strike. They have triangle heads that come to a flat point at the mouth, and rounded edges where the head meets the body. Without the need to consume the flesh of their pray, they have adapted powerful jaw muscles that distort the proportions of their lower jaw, causing it to bulge. These muscles allow them to latch onto their pray, and cannot be easily dislodged.

Geographic Origin and Distribution

Kan can only be found in Saunderlin's Waste, though they mostly concentrate near the city of Ea, they can be found throughout the entire desert, constantly patrolling to prevent anything from escaping the area.

Average Intelligence

Kan are persistent predators, with the ability to hunt for long periods of time, and the intelligence to set traps, herd pray, work in packs, and set ambushes.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Tremor-blind: While moving kan's massive bodies produce a constant low level tremor in the sand, obscuring their ability to sense movement through their scales.

Lifespan

Unknown

Average Height

15 ft.

Average Length

500-1000 ft.

Average Physique

Kan are solid muscle, designed solely for the purpose of hunting and trapping Ea and her creations.

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

Gradient brown and grey pattern.