Coffin Centipedes

A large but rigid centipede that feeds on the waste of larger animals.

Basic Information

Dietary Needs and Habits

Secretions

Their favoured meals include the sweat, spit and urine of other species.

Scavengers

Coffin centipedes are better known for being opportunitic.

Small Invertebrates

Centipedes are generalist predators, but the coffins were not particularly good at hunting.

Additional Information

Facial characteristics

Th centipedes have flat heads with golden yellow eyes appearing to double as independent pseudo-mouths with sideways teeth of their own.

Geographic Origin and Distribution

Cemeteries

In accordance with their name, coffins are generally nocturnal creatures that seek out dark, damp areas with ample sources of food and relatively undisturbed soil or vegetation or fur to hide. As such, they commonly infested the sacred places where bodies were buried including many funerary towers, catacombs and even in the sacred tomb of the Sapas.

Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms

Not only would they trespass on the dead, but the living as well.

They were somewhat parasitic: living in or near the anuses of larger creatures. Although they were tolerated as a fact of life for many years, many cultures still thought of them as unclean and actively sort to destroy them.
Leading to many uncomfortable and unfortunate treatments that involved manual extraction through the esophagus or the rectum.

EXTINCT

Lifespan

5 - 6 years

Average Length

1 ft
Average Intelligence
Coffins lack brains, so are incapable of thinking.

Average Physique

• 6 head segments (3 of which are mouthparts)
• 15 pairs of truck-bearing leg segments
  • including a pair of "foot jaws"
• 2 genital segments

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

Pitch Black with Pink and Purple Legs

Geographic Distribution

• Chullpas
• Tolas

Related Ethnicities

• Coastal People
• Mud Men