I had to move this part of my previous post down here due to character limit. Good news is that except for three of these, all the other submissions have been completed, and those that aren’t should be completed shortly
More Chimarion Submissions
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Fantomblad
Fantomblad
Chimeric Parts: Japanese Blood Grass + Sea Sapphire + Magnificent Anemone + Poison Dart Frog
Description: Starting their life as tiny little semiaquatic scuttling organisms, barely two inches long, with many scuttling legs and a powerful fin tail, these creatures are slightly armored and hard to see unless hit by light in just the right way, where they stand out like a rainbow beacon. They carefully scuttle between Lureteppe, sucking up detritus and feeding off of Tareslange leaves until they have stored enough energy to begin their transformation into adult Fantomblads
Those few that make it this far find a place to settle down, whether in the swampy caves covered only in a small layer of water or the busy waters of the aquatic caves, and here they slowly grow into a deadly sessile predator. They passively gain a small amount of energy from symbiotic algae all over their bodies, but most of their sustenance comes from their own natural photosynthesis and occasionally from them using their razor sharp blades of nigh-invisible death to slice into prey. Their slow moving tentacles are almost invisible unless hit at a very particular angle, and their constant, slow movement gives them an ethereal look of a handful of minor reflections that lures in smaller prey items to their doom, poisoning and slashing at them as they are hypnotized by the plants beauty
In the event that something does try to eat them, they are not only incredibly sharp but also incredibly tough and poisonous, making it the rare beast that can try to eat them, and an even rarer one which can succeed and walk away unscathed.
Diet: Herbivore and Scavenger as larvae, Omnivore and Small Scale Producer as adult
Size: Larva around 2 inches long, Individual plants are about 3 feet wide with 2 foot tall blade-tentacle-leaves
Environment: Hydrothermal Caves (Above and Below Water)
Other: Stinging Blade Tentacles, almost invisible unless light hits just right (then many sparkling colors), deadly poisonous as adults, incredibly sharp, sessile and slow moving, symbiotic photosynthetic algae, can crawl and is amphibious as larvae
Fryktelig
Fryktelig
Chimeric Parts: Satanic Leaf Tailed Gecko + Devil’s Fingers + Praying Mantis + Trapdoor Spider
Description: Fryktelig are the small scavengers of this world, forming huge colonies similar to ants and working together to be a formidable force to be reckoned with.
Two stages of this life form exist. The first is a fungal stage, which forms as a large white bubble that red, finger like protrusions emerge from when they mature and take root. This form is a saprotroph, feeding off of dead or dying plant and animal matter. It can connect its roots with nearby members of its species, linking together to share information and resources. It is rare, but with enough time, if there is a scarcity of food or danger to its being, this first stage can develop long, mantis like legs and then get up and walk away to a new location.
Occasionally, the spore eggs of the second stage can be found lining the arms, or fingers, of the first stage, where they then fall off or are collected by the second stage. In the second stage, which hatches out of the spore eggs of the first stage, they come into the world looking like small, lizard like creatures with the hind feet of a gecko, small arthropodian limbs lining their abdomen, and two large, raptorial forelimbs that they use for striking and walking around by planting the sharp, scythe like end in the ground, similar to how a gorilla walks on its knuckles.
This second stage also is covered in a rock or plant like camouflage, with a thick mat of small devils fingers lining its back like a spiky mane or row of spines. They form sprawling hives near the base of the adult stages, hidden beneath earthen trapdoors, and can share information and food resources with them in necessary. Injured second stages are occasionally wrapped in silk and mobile, subsurface hyphae in order to accelerate their healing process.
The second stage is significantly more active than the first stage, actively going out to hunt or scavenge for food in a similar way to ants. If the first stage Fryktelig are ever in danger from some sort of grazing herbivore, these creatures will also swarm this being, and try their belgiumedest to take it down. If an event happens where the first stage needs to move, hives will often move with them, and may even end up joining with another fungal grove and hive in the area, as colonies don’t make distinctions between one another and will actually actively help one another.
When the second stage dies, it’s body acts as fertilizer for the spores stored deep inside it, objects made early in life after maturing as a second stage through mating and the joining of spores from the fungal parents of each second stage Fryktelig. This also makes every Fryktelig hermaphroditic, so that every second stage sprouts at least one first stage upon death.
Diet: Omnivore / Saprotroph
Size: 8 inches long second stage, first stage constantly grows based on food availability.
Environment: Any terrestrial environment excluding polar areas, though they are much more common the warmer the environment, being most common in hot deserts and mesas.
Other: Two stages, Red finger or tentacle like fungal arms, raptorial forelegs, small arthropodian limbs, reptilian hind legs, plant or rock like skin camouflage, trapdoor burrows, giant nests/hives, silk production, fungal mane, hermaphrodites
Lureteppe
Lureteppe
Chimeric Parts: Alvinocardid Shrimp + Tasseled Wobbegong + Ghost Flower + Cave Caiman
Description: A large, crocodilian chimera, this beast lays in wait all over the floors the hydrothermal caves, carpeting the floors of the swamp caves as their predominant ‘plant’ and being not uncommon undergrowth in cave-dwelling Tareslange forests. They are the predominant light in those swampy areas, their backs covered in a thick carpet of glowing ghost plants.
Spending most of their lives in the same location after hatching from their eggs and finding a spot to lay down, they spend most of their time passively feeding off of the organic matter produced by their microfungal symbionts. They’ll lazily snap or lunge at anything that registers to their heat sense or brushes by their antennae, but only will ever do so half heartedly and don’t often give chase, only ever really moving or shifting around to uproot a misbehaving Fantomblad or to shove other Lureteppe aside in order to have room to grow.
Mating predominantly occurs between neighbors, with young wandering far enough away that it usually doesn’t become a problem for future generations. Due to having no real predators, the Lureteppe lives a mostly carefree life, vibing the day away.
Diet: Producer, Detrivore, Scavenger, Carnivore
Size: 6 feet long as adult, no real maximum size (grow to fit available space)
Environment: Hydrothermal Caves (above and below water)
Other: Symbiosis with microfungal chemosynthesizers in their gills, glowing carpet of ghost plants on back, flora-like camouflage and patterning all across skin surface, bright red eyes, Heat Vision, perfect stillness, gills and lungs, powerful swimming tail good for lunging
Tareslange
Tareslange
Chimeric Parts: Panellus Stipticus (Bright Green Glowing Shelf Fungus) + Giant Kelp + Dragon Snake + Leafy Sea Dragon
Description: Long and sinuous when young, juvenile Tareslange are relatively active ambush and pursuit predators, chasing down small prey throughout forest of their adult counterparts. All across their bodies, fins of leaflike protrusions grow, and sometimes juveniles will even curl up on a leaf of an adult to ‘sun’ themselves and perform some minor photosynthesis.
When approaching adulthood, Tareslange will go and find another near-adult to mate with, their hermaphroditic nature allowing them both to begin to carry the seed-eggs of the other.
They then go off on their own separate journeys, searching for an area with plenty of space and little competition for them to take root. Once they find an area that works for them, they bite down on the soil and their metamorphosis begins. Their jaws slowly transform into a large, root like system, and their body elongates dramatically, their leaf like protrusions increasing in size and becoming proper, glowing green leaves. Shelves of bright green fungus like material also sprout up and down their scaly stems like tiny little shelves, and small bubbles form on short little stems all up and down the main trunk of this plant and underneath its giant leaves.
This now massive pseudo plant can live for a very, very long time, steadily growing with each passing year. It gains its energy through photosynthesis, using the other plants as its light sources in the darkness of the deep sea. However, due to this not being a video game with an infinite energy glitch, it’s also a saprotroph, feeding off of the detritus and dead bodies of past organisms.
Periodically, around once every two or three years or so, some of the bubbles will detach from the main stem and increase in weight, dropping among the pseudo branches of the plant and the aquatic leaf litter. These will eventually hatch into new Tareslange, who repeat the cycle all over again, endlessly increasing the spread of the deep sea glowing forests.
Diet: Carnivore (Fantomblad Larvae and other small creatures) as juvenile, producer and saprotroph as adult
Size: 2 feet long as juvenile, up to 215 feet long as adult
Environment: Hydrothermal Caves (Underwater), Deep Ocean relatively near caves
Other: Black scaled body/stem, leaf-like glowing protrusions as juvenile as lure and camouflage, other leaf like camouflage, can unhinge jaw as juvenile, huge glowing leaves as adult with bubble pods (also eggs), jaw-roots as adult
