Jekilborne
Half human, half wraith, the Jekilbornes are victoms of a magical affliction that haunts the Jekile fens. These creatures are often emaciated in appearence, with pointed teeth and watery eyes. Perhaps an offshoot of sirens, they live in the marshes and pray on humans. While a direct confrontation with a Jekileborne is almost bound to end in infection, they can be warded off by use of burning and smoking strong smelling herbs, bathing in saltwater, and keeping to dray and windy places. They remain in hybernation during freezing tempurtures, so if there is ice on the water, you're safe, but they emerge most hungry after rainfall.
Basic Information
Anatomy
When in human form, the Jekilborne is hunched over, with long legs and arms, long fingers, and a thin face. Hair is long, often covering face and shoulders, and always wet, often with alge and other organisms growing in it. Skin a palid, sometimes also covered in alge. The feet have webbed toes, and kills are on the neck.
Genetics and Reproduction
The Jekileborne's reproduce by infecting a human or druid victom. When in mist form, if a human breathes in the mist, the disease grows in the lungs for several days while the body of victom changes to become a Jekileborne. First, there is trouble breathing, and eyesight begins to fade. Spell is enhanced, and the body becomes very sensitive to touch and light. Gills will emerge on the neck of the victom and the skin will start to change color. Organisms such as alge, crustations, snails, and waterplants will try to grow on the body. The victom will loose weight, and cognitive functions such as human commication, face regognition, and others. Once the change is complete, the Jekileborne no longer remembers being human, and is driven by impulse and stimuli.
Growth Rate & Stages
A Jekileborne's lifespan is unknown.
Ecology and Habitats
The Jekileborne's live exlcusively in the Jekile Fens in Druidswood. Normally, they live in the water, only emerging to travel between patches of water. The close-growing trees and vines ensure that they are protected from harmful sunlight or too-strong winds which could disperse their mist.
Dietary Needs and Habits
They survive on fish, small animals, and plants as well as humans and druids. Smell leads them to their pray, as well as seeing their heat signature and listening to the disturbances they make in the envirnment. They're drawn to the smell of blood, but repelled by smoke and saltwater.
Biological Cycle
Sometimes, when water or food is scarce, they may go into hybernation underwater, where they bury themselves in silt, mud, and waterweeds and emerge after the next flood or heavy rain. After too long in human form, without transforming to mist to hunt, their body may become too decayed to function, and they must either heal themselves, or turn to mist, and unable to transform back, inevitably dispersing. During freezing tempurtures, they will also go into hybernation until icemelt.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Jekileborne's are solitary, and guard their pools with dedication. An individual may have the exclusive right to a few square acres of marsh. When two Jekilebornes get into a fight over hunting space, it involves a great deal of keening, biting, and tearing of flesh.
Facial characteristics
Thin face, with long wet hair. Face is often covered in alge, weeds or snails. Eyes are generally white, or pale. Teeth are pointed.
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
The Jekilebornes are blind except for the ability to distinguish heat signatures so that they can hunt their pray. In order to move around their envirnment, they have extremely sensitive fingers and toes and a keen sense of smell, which is drawn to blood, sweat, and other human excretions. When hunting, they let out a keening sound which causes fear in humans. They are extremely flexible and good climbers, as well as incredible swimmers, but they don't move as fast on flat empty ground. When in mist form, they can float and drift slowly, and hang in the air for many hours, waiting to be inhaled by a human victom.
Symbiotic and Parasitic organisms
Snails, agle, marshweed.
Scientific Name
Humanoid Transformer
Origin/Ancestry
Majan
Average Height
Estimated to be 6ft
Average Weight
Estimated to be between 50 to 100 pounds.
Average Physique
Thin, almost skeletal, but always hunched over when on land.
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
Skin is usually pale, or with a green tint.
Geographic Distribution
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