Lampie

"You see that glow in the water? That's a lampie. Now, they can't eat people, so don't worry, but they might try to latch onto you..."

— An experienced night diver

Treading Water

Softly glowing in the tides at night, lampies are akin to large jellyfish. Commonly found in the deep waters off the coastlines of the Eight Lands, the lampie's translucent, gelatinous body has dozens of sticky tentacles that trail behind it, acting as a trap for any small creatures that get close enough. Their bioluminscent nature allows them to attact prey towards them, and they are even capable of shifting colours to create a more entrancing pattern. Once their prey is trapped in their tentacles, the lampie slowly brings them up their tentacles and they become absorbed and dissolved in its body.
Occasionally a person will get close enough for a lampie to attempt to hold it within its tentacles, however anyone who does find this happening to them is not in any danger. Lampies aren't big enough to begin to devour a person, and gently scooping their tentacles off your body will have them release you and drift away again.

Spectrum Seas

While lampies aren't generally targeted as food by other predators in the seas, on occasion they can be swept up in a creatures maw as it swims past. Because of the small level of danger that does exist for them, lampies cooperate in groups, their shared presence in the dark alerting any predators nearby that they are there. To help coordinate their safety, lampies communicate through flashes of light in different patterns and colours.
Lampies are capable of mating with more than one partner at a time, though it doesn't affect the amount of lampie pupa that they birth a couple of months later, usually between five to ten. There are some lampies who choose not to mate, as well as some who choose not to live in groups. Their existence does no harm to the rest of the lampies of the world, it simply means that those lampies will face either greater danger or sire no offspring.

Lifespan

6 to 8 years

Average Weight

70 to 100lbs

Average Length

Up to 4 meters