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Dealathe

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People aint sure if to consider it an animal. It is apparently caused by magical corruption in the Ithetalia island. These creatures have bodies made out of rocks and dead animal bones, a light tends to come out of the cracks between rocks and bones, with the color of it apparently random.

Decades ago, as they started to appear, their bodies weren't particularly made of rocks, as the bodies they had were still able to be standing by the decaying flesh of the corpse. As time passed and the flesh decayed or was left behind, it was slowly replaced by rocks.

The creatures don't seem to age (other than when they were loosing their flesh, nor seem to be able to reproduce. The way these creatures increase the numbers is by making new bodies and breathing part of their internal light to the new body. It is unknown if that makes both creatures weaker or not.

They all seem to roam around the island without doing much, until fauna approaches the ruins of the island. Then, all of them, as if they have hive mind, go to the ruins and will attack the intruder.

To kill one of these creatures, their bodies must be smashed or broken into pieces. Once their interior light is enough exposed to the air, it will disipate into nothingness and the creature will be dead.

People from the Floating Kaghiz and Portalhoppers have been trying to find a way of reaching the ruins wihtouth alerting the Dealathe with no success yet. Some Ashtarians seem to be able to get closer to the ruins without alerting the creatures than others, and Valence

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Jul 11, 2023 12:00 by Marc Zipper

These are cool animals. Kind of Wonder is this the hide mine so they spread out in a far of range to see or do they have some form of connection with the island either way this is a very interesting creature you made

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Jul 11, 2023 13:52 by Catoblepon

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

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Aug 9, 2023 14:28 by E. Christopher Clark

Scary and awesome! The hive mind and the method of reproduction (plus the note that it's not known if this weakens the parent) were probably my favorite parts.

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