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Peace Among Worlds
Sharktocrab.
His fly speed should be a swim speed instead, I whoopsed.
Bizarre Hybrids. It is clearly a time honored tradition among wizards to combine animals into one mutant animal with the properties of both. Chimera, owl bear, dragon turtle, hippogriff, Jackalware, Kenku, all these and more number among the list of creatures or species which are rumored to have been created by a bored wizard semi-successfully combining two (or more!) perfectly good animals into one terrifying and/or bizarre one. But the biomancers of the Simic Combine take this obsession to a whole new level, and strange mutants like the sharktocrab are just one of the alarming and strange creatures that are the fruits of the Guardian Project, the Simic Guild's secret initiative to develop an army of adaptable superbeasts.
Part Shark, Part Crab, Part Octopus: A sharktocrab is an enormous hammerhead shark with two massive pincers up front, eight tentacles protruding from the rear (usable for quick bursts of acceleration under water), and six legs to either side used for walking on land. The shark maw bites ferociously, while the tentacles or the pincers hold its next meal ready.
Conflicted Instincts: Mentally, a sharktocrab's brain is much like a shark's: they are apex predators, obligate carnivors, pure hunters, almost as ornery as owlbears. Crabs, on the other pincer, just want to be left alone and given their space, and would only fight to defend themselves, and an octopus' instinct is to drag its prey back to its undersea lair and consume it there (such pray including crabs for some species of octopuses). In spite of this, a sharktopus can coordinate its different appendages effectively when its life is threatened.
There. You're welcome. ...Sharktocrab.
His fly speed should be a swim speed instead, I whoopsed.
Bizarre Hybrids. It is clearly a time honored tradition among wizards to combine animals into one mutant animal with the properties of both. Chimera, owl bear, dragon turtle, hippogriff, Jackalware, Kenku, all these and more number among the list of creatures or species which are rumored to have been created by a bored wizard semi-successfully combining two (or more!) perfectly good animals into one terrifying and/or bizarre one. But the biomancers of the Simic Combine take this obsession to a whole new level, and strange mutants like the sharktocrab are just one of the alarming and strange creatures that are the fruits of the Guardian Project, the Simic Guild's secret initiative to develop an army of adaptable superbeasts.
Part Shark, Part Crab, Part Octopus: A sharktocrab is an enormous hammerhead shark with two massive pincers up front, eight tentacles protruding from the rear (usable for quick bursts of acceleration under water), and six legs to either side used for walking on land. The shark maw bites ferociously, while the tentacles or the pincers hold its next meal ready.
Conflicted Instincts: Mentally, a sharktocrab's brain is much like a shark's: they are apex predators, obligate carnivors, pure hunters, almost as ornery as owlbears. Crabs, on the other pincer, just want to be left alone and given their space, and would only fight to defend themselves, and an octopus' instinct is to drag its prey back to its undersea lair and consume it there (such pray including crabs for some species of octopuses). In spite of this, a sharktopus can coordinate its different appendages effectively when its life is threatened.
There. You're welcome. ...Sharktocrab.
