Carrion Crawler

this creature is seemingly enormous maggot, larvae, or grub with its most notable difference being its mouth that has pincers you normally expect from insects in addition to teeth and tentacles they can use to bite and, to a certain extent, grab onto a meal and pull into its mouth

Culture

normally a voracious creature the carrion crawler will find and eat massive amounts of carcasses with ease and still be hungry. should a carrion crawler ever be filled it will be a surprisingly passive creature that has no interest in what your doing as long as you dont bother it. any other time however it will see you as a way to fill its belly

in combat a carrion crawler will instinctively try to hit any and all enemies until they stop moving. and since every hit from a carrion crawler will likely paralyze that enemy it normally wont take long for that to happen. once all enemies are paralyzed it will start to kill one at random. once dead it will move onto the next. only eating once all enemies have been dealt with

the head of a carrion crawler is the toughest part of it with hard exoskeletal plates protecting it equaling to a far higher armor class then the soft, squishy main body. should a carrion crawler be sufficiently damaged it may try to retreat. how it will go about this is by climbing its way up the wall and across the ceiling

carrion crawlers are extremely easy to domesticate. simply feed it for a few days and it will never attack you and defend an area you leave it in with its life. they, however, make for terrible mounts due to how squishy their body is

carrion crawlers are the largest insect by alot and because of which melkor uses them as the perfect mental nodes of a hivemind. these carrion crawlers rarely if ever move being fed by the other giant insects. should one ever be put in danger it will fight with just as much gusto as any normal carrion crawler but this time it will be aided by a legion of insects and the brain of a super-computer

History

carrion crawlers are not known to die of old age. it is theorized that they may be the larval stage of a much larger far more terrifying creature that luckily has never yet come to be.