Devowelers

The Devowelers

Origin: Icey Wastelands, Unnamed

Progenitor: Uode Capital/Original Settlement: N/A

Other Settlements: N/A

natural lifespan: 300-400 years

Traits:

1) Immune to cold; the Devoweler morphology has been adapted to uniquely be resistant entirely to low temperatures, existing almost exclusively in sub-zero temperatures.  Oddly, this also means that the Devoweler has developed no mechanism to extrude fluid, such as sweat glands, making them less than resilient in above-zero temperatures.

2) Ice burrowers; In response to lack of nutrient-bearing lifeforms along the ice-sheets and wastelands, the Devoweler is granted most of its dietary needs by consuming long-frozen bacterium and lifeforms along with impurities in the ice. Complex gastronomical processes then output purified water the other side of the intestinal tract to be refrozen. This burrowing tendency means that Devoweler colonies can be found near ice-cracks, the by-product of great quantities of tunnelling in a small area, tread carefully in these zones for fear of falling into the flooded tunnels below.

3) Heavily Armored; in response to the jagged and hostile nature of the Devowelers natural environment, and as a result of their nature as an extremophile, the Devoweler's entire body is not only durable and containing redundent tissues to prevent localized damage from killing the overall organism, it is heavily armored in an organic ceramic series of interlocking plates,

Society: N/A

Advancements: N/A