First two Forgotten Beasts I ever made :3
I know this probably is against the rules of the lil game you guys have been doing since 2011 x3 But since I have seen the forgotten beasts hadn’t really been that impressive lately and, besides writing my little story I wouldn’t mind some visual help :3 So I will post their descriptions and hope that, if it is against the rules, you guys are at least interested in the designs. Marino is quite normal (A spider), but Kääffäär may pique the interest from some of you guys.
Note: They aren’t forgotten beasts made before the world was world. My story is ‘not cannon’ (Does that exist in Dwarf Fortress?). First chapter should be up today or tomorrow if any is interested.
I hope none of you mind the back-story too much, I mostly wanted to throw it in to see if any of you feel a bit more compelled by the creatures ;3 If not, go directly to the description.
Also, I wanted to include the spawn of Kääffäär, but I think this is already quite a lot.
Marino Klammar – The Godly Touched Spider.
Back-story:
The runt of the litter from a massive batch of cave spiders, Marino Klammar, as most other spiders from the caves, had no name, no feelings and almost no intelligence. Being smaller than the rest of its kind made the poor creature’s life a constant fight, as even being pitted against the weakest of creatures was a fight to the death. The miserable creature had to resort to draining fluids from fungus and sparse fish, unable to compete against almost any creature.
This, though, made her develop a small intellect over its first year of life, without it she would’ve died without a thought.
Such development, probably by the magic properties of the caves she was in, attracted the attention of one of the greater demons that had laid its eye on the region. It promised Marino a life where she would never have to fear being preyed ever again, the power to hunt and the skill to survive. With its little intelligence and simple desire to keep going, the poor creature accepted, though reluctantly.
Then she was touched by the demon, and everything changed.
As Marino writhed in agony, one of the gods pitied the poor creature, pushing the power of the demon away and taking its place to heal the poor thing and boost its intelligence; however the damage was already done. Marino would wake up, a translucent figure of impossible shape standing before its huge and mutant body, waiting for her to wake up and simply give her a gentle touch on its new maw, now an artifact for destruction.
A flash of light enveloped her, and, for a second, she turned somewhat human, yet still monstrous in appearance. That passed quickly though, as it was a phase simply to bestow her with feelings and knowledge akin to a human by the god before Marino went back to its monstrous form and the god went away…
After that Marino resumed her life under the grown, fighting to survive no more, but yearning the day when she would be found by someone, as even if she could not talk, loneliness would erode away her life for thirty nine years, until…
Description:
Two to three times taller than a human, Marino’s body is covered on its upper zone by a black chitin, practically made out of steel as were its needle like hairs that littered the surface of her body by the hundreds. Her lower body is composed of a yellow like muscle covered in an almost transparent flesh barrier that seems to exude some kind of venom. The back of her abdomen has a huge silk organ engorged and mutated to appear like a serrated mouth of some hellish creature capable of spitting venomous strands of the silk impressive distances away.
Her legs are covered in some kind of green substance that sparkles and shines with its own light, most likely some kind of moss or even maybe a natural gem that her body generates. She has fourteen legs, six that are in contact with the ground, six that grow upwards to take contact with the ceiling and two that spawn forward, some kind of pincers growing on their ends to gnaw or snap at whatever comes too close with unfriendly intentions.
An once arachnid face has been torn into a wicked image of savagery. Eight mandibles, two opening upwards, two downwards and four sideways (two to each side) seem to hold the creature’s many massive chelicerae. In the centre of these horrific and murderous weapons lies a tubular mouth lined with many serrated teeth that seem to spin around constantly with the only job of draining fluids and then spiting any carcass out. Each ‘mouth’ has four eyes on the head segment they are attached to, making it a total of 16.
Skills, powers, etc:
She has the following qualities: Poisonous web, lethal poison if injected with the creature’s fangs, acidic damage if the creature tramples you, steel like resistance, extremely fast regeneration thanks to the acids inside of her.
Kääffäär – The Absorber of Bodies.
Back-story:
A massive squid like creature when he was normal, Kääffäär was brought from an underwater sea to the depths of the fortress where it was found and where it still resides. For some reason this great squid had the desire to consume creatures nonstop, some speculate it is because of the gem it had incrusted on its forehead, most probably placed there by some magician with desires to test new magical spells.
Soon, however, the creature found himself with no food, or that those that he could eat would avoid him like the plague as even animals had instincts that told them what was dangerous… and antinatural. It would only take Kääffäär weeks for his stored and decayed prey to evaporate as he ate them or scavengers took them away. With the only thing the creature had; instincts and desire to live, being tested to its maximum, someone took an interest on him.
Many years before Marino would even exist, the demon that offered her the deal to change would appear to Kääffäär, and others, though Kääffäär would be the only one to show readily in front of the dwarves after his change, one that he took gladly after the offering of the demon: Power, the capability of bringing prey to him even from afar, and to ensure he would live forever.
Being touched by the high demon didn’t even hurt the creature as his form changed into a monstruous mockery of what he once was, however what intelligence he gained made him care little, as form was not what he was after. The monster was after the simplest pleasure life could give you; food.
With his powers he would ensure no one remembered him after each time the fort had to be left behind, if someone made it out alive. Every time dwarfs came back, he lied there, waiting, eating any creature that moved to the levels where the lakes and seas underground would offer the brutal but cowardly beast’s protection, as well as ensuring at least one of its spawn was always in a safe place to escape in the almost impossible case that someone struck him down.
Description:
Many times bigger than any human, probably as tall as a dragon, Kääffäär has a huge bloated body that can occupy four ‘blocks’ (Imagine it in DF standards) with its tentacles included. The slender form was lost long ago, now simply a huge belly like form with many gasses and openings from which the spawn it creates drop to the water before being bound to its master’s will. On top of the huge belly rest the now blind eyes of the monster, a huge crystal of many colors surveying the land and mesmerizing any that looks at it and has not a strong will.
Its mouth is massive, lipless but with hundreds of small beaks outlying it as it seems to extend to the whole frontal form of the creature, being big enough to even fit an elephant inside. Deep within the mouth lies a canal, anyone unlucky enough to fall inside and survive the outer atrocity that would butcher any bigger prey would find what seemed to be a hellish contraption made of flesh, muscles and bone. The only mission of such a thing was to smash into a pulp any creature that went inside its stomach, live or dead.
Finally Kääffäär’s tentacles lie in all over the front of its body, twenty four massive walls of flesh that flail around wildly, knots of bone, flesh hooks and their own girth making evading them almost impossible and quite painful. The biggest treat, however, were the slits that the tentacles had on their top, surrounded by the suckers. Capable of absorbing living or dead beings and send them towards the acid inside of its stomach, the tentacles were the most dreaded and feared part of the creature, a horrible way of ending your life if they caught you was more than assured.
Skills, powers, etc:
He has the following skills: Many insta death attacks (Mauled with the maw, trampled over someone, absorbed by tentacles) and produces 26 attacks at a time (One per tentacle, the eye and the maw). He also can come back even if you kill it, create minion creatures and form an army if you aren’t careful, and cannot walk on ground, only in water.
[Even if this has to be deleted latter, I hope everyone at least has some fun imagining them :3]
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