The Corpse Fiend
Basic Information
Anatomy
The Corpse Fiend has a long, beastly body, with a chitinous armour covering a least it's upper back and down its spine. A large crest covers the slope of the creatures head. Known reports of this fiends say they have four arms, two primary and two subsidiaries. This however has been proven false by autopsies. It is unknown why soldiers believe this when encountering this being, it's widely believed that this is because of an illusion it casts or that it moves so fast that it is an after image that you're seeing.
Genetics and Reproduction
This animal reproduces asexually with already inseminated eggs well inside a host, where it lays them to incubate. Once the parasitic stage of its life is complete the original parasite leaves the host through the anus while the eggs hatch and leave when they're ready, but if the eggs are exposed to light or external temperatures prematurely the fetus inside the eggs will die.
Dietary Needs and Habits
This animal needs very little food to survive, but that doesn't stop it from killing so it can lay more eggs,but when it is hunting for food the fiend doesn't really have a strategy, just look around and when it sees something it thinks tasty it, it either chases it until it catches what it was chasing, the fiend dies, or it loses it's prey. When, or if it catches it's prey it begins to gorge it's self on the meat of whatever it caught.
Additional Information
Average Intelligence
this animals are quite simply....dumb, if you were to put a mirror in front of it would probably attack the mirror over you.
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
The Corpse Fiend has a two sets of camera type eyes, it also has a small hole in the side of its head to serve as ear, and a split above the lip up to where the nose would be.
Scientific Name
Picidae Nodalia
Lifespan
25 years
Average Height
1.6 meters
Average Weight
110 kg
Average Length
3.2 meters
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Are they edible?
why not? I don't think they'd taste good though
"Today on Cooking With Jim, we've got ourselves a corpse fiend! Now don't worry, it's already been killed by it running head-first into lots of spiky mirrors! You're gonna wanna remove the kiddy-making bits because ew but also so one of these little buggers doesn't eat you or those who eat your food from the inside in a slow and painful death - wouldn't want that now would we?" *audience laughs uneasily* "Once you've done that you can choose to or not to remove the armour depending on how much you value the dental health of your customers." *audience laughs even more uneasily. A corpse fiend bursts in and kills a member of the crowd before going on a rampage and massacring everyone as they claw over one another to escape*
Thank you Chef Jim, now I too can get eaten by a weird monkey- deer whilst trying to cook it
*coughs blood while something under skin wiggles* gher ghelgum.