Olgoi-khorkhoi
“ The living legends rumor before Mongols reconquest. The worms tried to devour any trespassers in their territory with teeth and paralysis. The legends allegedly exist. ”
– Eostre
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Order: Neohirudina
Suborder: Hirudiniformes
Family: Terrahirudidae
Subfamily: Terrahirudinae
Genus: Terrahiruda
Species: Terrahiruda mongolica
Descendant: leech
Named by: ???
Year Published: ???
Size: 5.9 meters tall in height, 700 kilograms in weight, 34.6 meters in length
Lifespan: 12 years
Activity: Diurnal
Type:
Annelids (Leech)
Mythical
Guardian
Title:
Death Worm
Dune Death
Pantheon:
Terran/Gaian 🇺🇳
Mongolian 🇲🇳
Time Period: Pleistocene to Holocene
Alignment: Territorial
Threat Level: ★★★★★★★★
Diet: Carnivorous 🥩🥓🐟🪲
Elements: Rock 🪨
Inflicts: Rockblight 🪨, Paralysis 😣, Leeched 🦟
Weaknesses: Water 🌊, Leaf 🌿, Ice ❄️, Metal 🔩, Blastblight 💣
Casualties: ???
Based On: itself
Conservation Status: Endangered (EN) – IUCN Red List
Olgoi-khorkhoi (Bichig: ᠥᠯᠭᠥᠢ ᠬᠥᠷᠬᠥᠢ/ᠥᠯᠭᠥᠶ ᠬᠥᠷᠬᠥᠶ; Cyrillic: олгой-хорхой) is the one of the mythical creature introduced in Worldcraft: Scorched Earth.
Olgoi-khorkhoi in Mongolian word for "large intestine worm". In 1983 a specimen of Tartar sand boa (Eryx tataricus) was shown to locals who claimed to have seen "olgoi-khorkhoi" and they confirmed that this was the same animal.
Olgoi-khorkhoi is a large terrestrial worm that is related to leeches. Dull brown to brown tipped tail resembles sand boa, pale brownish underbelly, yellow edged holes on the neck for releasing paralysis and eyeless. Three mouths with sharp teeth and can spin and burrow through earth and sand. These hair-like segments are used to detect prey or predators in combat.
Olgoi-khorkhoi used their strength, as well as can echolocate with their brain from the special organs much like dolphins and bats combine for vibrating in the sand detects miles away from. Their pits are actually opening the electricity, the only segmented worm's mysterious evolution, to discharge its own electricity and shocks nearby deals paralysis, and the tail only can be grounded to static at the sand or soil.
Two different kinds of auditory sensory neurons are present in the worms, and they are closely linked to their skin. The fluid inside the worms may vibrate in a manner similar to that of a cochlea when sound waves strike their skin, causing the skin to vibrate. Inspired by Frank Herbert's novel Dune, which describes how rhythmic thumping might summon enormous fictitious sandworms to the surface, Ivan Mackerle built a motor-driven "thumper" and even attempted to locate it using tiny explosions.
Coming soon.
Olgoi-khorkhoi are very territorial species who dares for their own territory. Small individuals run away from larger ones.
Olgoi-khorkhoi was the endemic species in Mongolia, now extinct in China in the Middle Ages by the non-scholars.
In Worldcraft Series: located in Pascua Delos Desierto at mostly sand areas and in badlands. In Rewritten Series: located in sandy areas worldwide, even in islands brought by conquistadors via Mongolians are slaves.
Movement Pattern: Random
Individual Type: Solo, later pack
Population Trend: Stable
Population: ???
Locomotion: Amphibious
Habitat: Deserts and Xeric Shrublands; Badlands.
Earth:
Extant (Resident): Mongolia
Reinachos:
Extant & Introduced (Resident): ugh
Sawintir: ???
Olgoi-khorkhoi cannot be tamed, due to low intelligence.
"Lost Tapes" claims that the Mongolian Death Worm was produced when the US military and government began testing nuclear weapons in the Gobi Desert in the 1940s and 1950s. However, it actually originated naturally in primordial times and was later adapted for slavery by the Isu race.
Tagalog: Monggolyanong bulati ng kamatayan
Indonesian: Cacing maut mongolia
Mongolian: Олгой-хорхой/ᠥᠯᠭᠥᠢ ᠬᠥᠷᠬᠥ (olgoi-khorkhoi)
Northern Sami: Mongolalaš jápminorbmi
Finnish: Allghoi Khorkhoi, kuolemankäärme
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