Create your own (SciFi, Fantasy or Horror) Creature

[creature386]

Based on this thread:
carnivoraforum.com/topic/9359415/1/

Basically, this is the thread for creating creatures you have made up. The word "creature" is very broadly defined. It can range from the inhabitants of a science fiction/fantasy/horror universe, to speculative evolution products, to cryptids, to mixtures of existing lifeforms, to non-biological entities which are still somehow "alive", you get it. There are little limitations to what you can do, just make sure that your creature is somehow "alive" (a virus would be the minimum of vitality, a crystal is not enough). This is not a thread for fictional minerals.

[creature386]

Alright, here’s another Carnivora villain profile, but these time in a new format. First, I cut the „combat capacity“ nonsense, I’ll just use the tiering of vsbattles.wikia instead.
For those who don’t know it:
vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Attack_Potency

Second, I cut several other of my made-up classifications and just used those on TVTropes from which I stole them anyway (WARNING, TVTropes ahead, infinite time sink!):
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlidingScaleOfVillainEffectiveness
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat

So, here’s the profile. It’s about the greater-scope villain of The Senders. Not an active character, but instrumental to the overall story and world.

General profile:
Name: „They“
Type of villain: Ancient evil, indirect cause of conflict, but not involved in it.
Species: Alien hive mind
Age: Billions of years.
Gender: -
Appearance: „They“ have abandoned anything resembling physical bodies and uploaded their minds into computers. These computers form one entity connected by wormholes, even though they are spread across the galaxy.
The majority of the computer’s body uses the accretion disk of Saggitarius A (the black hole at the Milky Way’s center) as computation substrate.
The remainder exists inside so-called „pocket universes“. Essentially universes that exist within our own one and are connected to it via wormholes. The wormholes themselves show a snippet of the pocket universe as big as their mouth allows. Visually speaking, the pocket universes are not so interesting and just consist of a bunch of opaque matter used as hardware to upload their minds in.
Size: They are spread all across the Milky Way. Individual pocket universes are rarely greater than a solar system, with the wormhole mouths leading to them having a diameter of 3 astronomical units at most. Obviously, the part around Saggitarius A is huge.
Weight: Probably between 0.1 and 1% of the Milky Way’s visible mass.
Personality: Unknown
Backstory: No-one knows how „They“ evolved. Not even them. Asking on which planet „They“ originally evolved would be like asking for the exact hot spring in which the first molecular replicator on Earth evolved. However, there are rumors that they originate from a planet called Genesis; a 13 billion year old planet orbiting a red dwarf star which used to be among the oldest in the universe.
What we do know for sure is that they have colonized the entire galaxy. After billions of years though, „They“ became unsatisfied with the mortal world and ascended to godhood in a heaven of their own creation by uploading their minds in the aforementioned computers. While this lifestyle is energy-efficient, other races might steal their resources once they ascend to their technological level.
Goals: Keep entropy low and prevent similarly advanced civilizations from arising.
There are two ways how to achieve that. The more humane option is to turn all other minds into blobs which can feel nothing but happiness so that they do not strive to advance and consume more resources. If that does work, they have to kill everyone. AIs like Götterdämmerung (profile comes later; you know, it’s the sort of thing Mustafa wants to release) can create a computer virus for each of these two options.
Crimes: -
Vileness: Orthogonal to the scale (see the TVTropes article)
Threat level: Galactic.
Effectiveness: Infinite. No-one, absolutely no-one in the Senderverse is a threat to them.
Arguably also inadvertent.

Information for vs-threads:
Combat capacity: Low cosmic
Abilities:
-Galactiforming: Within the Milky Way, „They“ are nigh-omnipotent. Making stars live longer, creating and destroying black holes, re-arranging Zodiacs as they wish, you name it. „They“ don’t engage in this often, but they can definitely do it.
-FTL-travel: „They“ are rumored to have created reaction less drives which can bypass the light speed barrier. These reaction less drives however can only function in a background field of dark energy which requires set up. This is to say, they can travel pretty much instantaneously everywhere inside the Milky Way, but not in a different galaxy.
-Wormhole creation: Wormholes, especially microscopic ones, allow them to operate in pretty much any part of the galaxy.
-Pocket universe creation: Essentially, „They“ can create new universes within ours. This is done by concentrating large amounts of matter into a singularity and triggering an inflation event inside it. Note that this requires low-entropy matter if they wish to have a low-entropy universe and can thus not be used to escape the heat death of the universe.
-Femtotechnology: Robots and other technological applications at the femtoscale. Femtotechnology affects matter at the scale of quarks and leptons.
Absurd, I know, but it’s just to show their overpoweredness.
Just a sample of the stuff femtotechnology can do:
•Transmutation (changing one element into another): „They“ could basically dissect a star that consists only of hydrogen and rearrange it into thousands of Earth-copies with all their complexities. Or they could do something even more ridiculous by creating stars composed of pure quarks.
•Regeneration (High, by vsbattles.wikia’s ranking): Femtotech can regenerate the user from being blown to quarks and leptons.
•Disintegration: As above, just the other way around.
•Anti-gravity: At least, that’s what I read.
•Teleportation: By disassembling and reassembling themselves.
Attack Potency: 4A - Multi-Solar System Level: As noted above, they can mess around as they please within the Milky Way.
Lifting Strength: Multi-Stellar
Striking Strength: Likely Multi-Solar System level
Durability: Multi-Solar System level, Regeneration makes them difficult to kill.
Speed: FTL with reaction less drives, Relativistic+ with normal drives (up to 99.99999999% of lightspeed). Reactions are also Relativistic+ (despite their enormous size, „They“ can make decisions on the order of nano- or even picoseconds).
Stamina: Nigh-limitless
Range: Galactic
Intelligence: Nigh-omniscient
Weaknesses:
-Indifference. Perhaps the only reason humans are still alive is the fact that „They“ don’t care so much about us. To them, we’re bacteria and it’s the job of white blood cells like Götterdämmerung to take care of us.
-Here’s what they can’t do:
•Reverse entropy: Otherwise, there won’t be no plot as that’s why they built AIs like Götterdämmerung to get rid of other civilizations. Energy is precious and limited to them.
•Time travel: Because otherwise, they’d have an effective way to solve their resource problem.
•Faster-than-light travel outside of the Milky Way or leaving the Milky Way in general: Otherwise, they’d have reliable time travel.
Standard Equipment:
-Wormholes
-Big computers
-Spaceships.
-Nano-, pico- and femtobots for the magic.

What can I say, probably the most OP character I’ve ever created.
I wonder if „They“ would be a match for the likes of Superman. Supes’ speed would be a tremendous obstacle, but maybe „They“ could disintegrate him while he’s busy figuring out how exactly his opponent works. I don’t know.

[creature386]

A mercy post of mine to keep this alive:


Dune maw

Everyone of these could be a dune maw. Everyone of them.


Scientific name: Os sabulum (literally, "mouth of sand")
Taxonomy (tongue-in-cheek):
Genre: Science-fiction creature
Category: Extraterrestrial life form
Type: Alien animal
Subtype: Predatory alien animal
Distribution:
Dune maws live on a place called "Shadowmoon". A moon orbiting a gas giant which in turn orbits a red dwarf star. Shadowmoon is slightly more massive than Earth and covered in black foliage, but otherwise very similar to our pale blue dot.
Naturally, they only live in large sand deserts which have sandstorms and dunes.
However, they are popular zoo animals for the Sappus and some of them even got their intelligence augmented to join the Sappus civilization. These dune maws can live wherever they want.
Physical description:
Adult dune maws reach heights of 1.5 to 1.8 m and weights of 85 - 147 kg (that's on Shadowmoon, which has a 9% higher gravity than Earth; on Earth, they'd weigh 78- 135 kg).
As the name implies, they physically resemble sand dunes when taking cover. Their body is pyramidal in shape and as yellow as the surrounding sand. It is supported by six columnar legs and sports six tentacles for prey apprehension. They have four compound eyes which can roughly be divided into two parts. An interior, smaller pair and an exterior, larger pair.
Beneath their eyes near their legs rests a spiky maw.
Juvenile dune maws look more like spikes and are much more nimble than their cumbersome older cousins.
Ecology:
The dune maw is a carnivore and an ambush predator. They hunt by closing their eyes with nictating membranes and retracting their limbs into specialized cavities to blend in with the surrounding sand dunes, although an alert observer can tell that their shape is more regular and less affected by the wind than other sand dunes are. That's why they are most effective in a sandstorm when sight conditions are bad and no-one pays attention to such details. Since their eyes are closed while hunting, they sense the vibrations of their prey animals through their feet and snatch out their tentacles when they are close enough.
Dune maws (who have not gotten their intelligence augmented) are solitary and require large territories to acquire enough food in the harsh desert. Due to being so slow and large, they must sit and wait until a sufficiently large prey animal comes along.
Fortunately, they are mesothermal and only expend very little calories on thermal regulation (mostly, the warm sand and Shadowmoon's thick atmosphere keep them warm during Shadowmoon's very short nights).
Juvenile dune maws are more active hunters and primarily prey on ant-like creatures.
Reproduction:
The lifecycle of dune maws is strange to observers from Earth, but normal to the denizens of Shadowmoon.
Their life cycle goes through three stages, a "hen", a "seeder" and a "carrier".
The "hens" are the smallest and capable of producing tiny eggs. When they grow up, this ability is sacrificed for the ability to produce seeds which fertilize the eggs ex vivo (often while they're still lying in the sand). While these eggs are sufficient on their own, it's better if a "carrier" (the oldest dune maw) carries them in a specialized, barely-visible pouch near the head-region.
"Hens" often lay their eggs in the sends and leave them for other dune maws to discover in order to prevent incest (many of the more prosocial animals of Shadowmoon, such as the Sappus, have evolved complex social structures for that purpose). They are hidden in the send to avoid predation, but send out a special scent only dune maws can recognize. "Seeders" then find and fertilize them and, when they grow up to become "carriers", incubate them in their head pouches.

And now, for vs-threads (except the first, the categories are taken from vsbattles.wikia):
Combat capacity: High human. A normal human can scare them off, but it takes a very strong human to actually beat them in a fight. Especially if the fight takes place in Shadowmoon's high gravity.
Abilities: Stealth, peak human strength and durability, superhuman bite force.
Destructive capacity: 9B (Wall level)
Lifting strength: Athletic human (a Dune maw can lift another)
Striking strength: Wall level
Durability: Wall level
Speed: Normal human (about 5-6 m/s, note that even a fit human would struggle with that speed in Shadowmoon's gravity though)
Stamina: Lower than that of a comparable mammal due to their mesothermy.
Range: Standard melee range
Intelligence: Animalistic. Average, if uplifted by a Sappus.
Weaknesses: Slow and not very courageous/aggressive. Like most predators, they'd let a prey item they could overpower escape if it can credibly harm them.
Standard equipment: None notable.

Chapter (draft) from The Senders I: Shadowmoon featuring the dune maw:

SPOILER: Click to show

Heaven and earth merged in their colors. It was hard to tell from my vantage point where the grain-soaked air stopped and where the ground began. No sandstorm was to blame. For the conditions of Shadowmoon, this was more of a breeze. Although the wind was slow, the dense atmosphere kept the grains of sand under control. Here, every gust felt like a wave of water.
Only the pitch-black pyramid stood out from the dirty horizon. I was not allowed to give up! Stamina was my only strength. I was always ready to do things that were uncomfortable for me.
My biggest enemy, however, was an inner one. For two Shadowmoon days, I resisted the call of nature. For two Shadowmoon days, I repressed my bladder and delayed the inevitable. Opening the suit was not an option, certainly not in such a situation. I had to give in. My diaper became warmer and wetter. Although I had been mentally prepared for that, I still felt like a baby. This feeling would accompany me for the rest of my journey. It would be even more unpleasant if it happened again.
Paradoxically, the longer I thought about it, the more pleasant it became. Almost as if someone suck out the urine from my diaper. All I had to do was press my hand against my buttocks to see that my diaper was actually fresh.
A self-cleaning diaper. Should I return to earth and share the knowledge of this miracle, retirement homes worldwide would be revolutionized. Not to mention space travel. Did you know that a member of the Apollo 11 crew even needed special pills just to avoid diarrhea?
Another gust blew me out of my daydreams. With outstretched arms, I kept the balance and did not even notice that my foot was caught.
I stumbled. Instinctively I clutched the nearest bush. A good choice, because something pulled my leg backwards. The tentacle of a sand dune-shaped monster squeezed the blood out of my ankle and pulled it closer. I could not recognize its mouth. Except for the tentacles, only the four red compound eyes, two large ones outside, two small ones inside, distinguished it from the surrounding hills.
I pulled my other leg back. The critter was about my height, but it was so weak that it did not even break my bush. At least that's what I thought until it grabbed my ankle with another tentacle. And with one more. Four tentacles. Five tentacles. Six tentacles.
The plant broke. I grabbed the fleeting sand in the folly that I was able to escape his appetite. As expected, it only flowed through my hooked fingers.
There was only one chance. With my free leg, I its exterior left eye. Immediately, the eye retreated into its skull and hid under a nictitating membrane.
The monster let me go.
I pulled the other leg back, too and ran.
I did not have a real goal. I just wanted to be as far away from it as possible until my exhaustion forced me to take a break. I had to pass that path anyway. Were there more of these, should I call them dune maws?
As a glance over my shoulder revealed, it was too early to think about it.
The dune maw was right behind me!
With its stubby legs, the creature could really run!
Faster! Come on, faster!
I stuck my head forward like a bull in the hope of defeating the headwind. Did the dune maw have similar problems? With its higher surface area it was less aerodynamic. On the other hand, it was more stable and when I stumbled, that was my end.
Don’t think so much, Lukas! Just run! Imagine the monster was Mr. Krasic!
The thought gave me the strength to climb a towering dune. It gave me an overview of the murky landscape. In the ocean of dark sand, I recognized a black spot in a dune. An cave? Hopefully a big one this time.
I slid down the steep dune side and ran towards this cave. The idiot that was me almost stumbled!
I zigzagged like a rabbit while my bush swirled up the sand. It was more of an act of desperation than anything else, because the dune maw was used to sand in the eyes. However, even it had to have limits.
The hole got bigger and bigger and as I got closer I saw several of its kind. Probably a cave system. Didn’t matter, because I could only take the next entrance anyway.
My abdominal muscles ached. That's what happens when you run for your life while being half-starved.
Come on! Only a little bit more!
The cave was right in front of me and it was big enough for me to crawl. I plunged in head over heels and crawled on all fours as deep as reason demanded. That must have been a really big sausage worm here. Six tentacles grabbed after me, but my legs were safe.
Mr. Krasic was right. I was proud of my performance today. Otherwise, I was always the last in 100-meter races.
I searched my flashlight. I almost never used it because I couldn’t exactly change batteries, but this was a justified exception. I needed to learn if there really was a cave system here.
A wing hit my helmet. I turned on my stomach and wanted to get to my knees, but was stopped by the hole’s ceiling. Another wing beat me. My attacker made itself visible: a luminous, six-legged creature, who looked at me with two pairs of big, cute eyes. It was almost as big as the cave and flashed in pinkish-white colors. On each of the two spread-out, bat-like wings hung two remnants of two tentacles. The membranes were attached to a third tentacle resembling the elongated fourth finger of bats. The frightened animal rammed my helmet and pushed me to the exit. From this perspective, it was not possible to see the Dünenmaul. I was shoved again.
"I'm sorry I invaded your house, but I have to survive," I said.
The creature stopped glowing and backed away.
"Did you understand what I-„
The sky exploded. Like a vampire, I crawled deeper into the darkness, away from the gleaming light. Even with my eyes closed, my inner world was illuminated with bright radiane.
Was this one of those solar flares for which M stars, or red dwarf stars, were so well known? Solar flares are events in which a star releases a lot of UV at once. Red dwarfs are particularly vulnerable to this, which is why many scientists think there is no life around them. If I'm dealing with one here, its eruptions are either rare, not so bad or the animals are adapted to it. If this moon orbits a red dwarf it explains why the plants are black here, because a G-star like the sun would produce green vegetation. This moon becomes more and more alien to me the more I learn about it.
Another push. Blind as a bat, I struck around, hoping to hit a membrane. The flood of light disappeared. I blinked a few times and opened my eyes again. The tentacle bat started to ram my helmet again. I suppose it was not made of glass because it survived the blows easily. With my flashlight, I tried to scare the animal away. It pushed me again.
As much as it hurt me to hurt it, Survival of the Fittest was the rule number one on Shadowmoon.
There was only one short stick left of my bush, but it was enough. When the creature annoyed me again with its wings, I ripped open its membrane so that it retreated.
I’m sorry.
As it moved away from me, my flashlight recognized more of the cave complex.
As suspected, there were branches that led to different exits. There was no way I could exit the way I entered, because if it was wise, the dune maw waited like a cat in front of a mouse hole.
The junction where two caverns met was thicker than usual. Several of these tentacle bats were gathered here, but they knew they had to make space for me.
Now, it was time to get up. It was like at the playground, where I sometimes climbed up the chute slides. I found that exhausting, but here the walls were even more slippy and the gravity was higher.
Carefully, I put one hand outside and then the other. If the dune maw were here, it would have grabbed me already long ago. I moved outside. As expected, only dunes and plants. There was no wind, although in this ocean-like atmosphere, it did not mean that all sand had fallen to the ground. Nevertheless, the view had improved. One could now distinguish yellow sand from orange.
When I searched for the pyramid, I fell again.
The dune maw, it was still there! As the closed eye showed, it was the one I had kicked. It had learned and immediately grabbed both of my legs at once.
How did it find me?
I stabbed my stick in the ground, but found no stable grip. This time, I could only watch helplessly as the dune maw ate my leg.
The hideous, spiky throat of the carnivore squeezed against my lower leg and pumped immeasurable pain into my nerves. Like ten bees the size of buzzards stabbing at once.
I needed to act quickly before it broke my foot. I rammed the stick right into its eye as if it were a stake in a cyclops eye.
The critter withdrew.
My ankle was not broken, just sprained because the suit prevented worse. Still, it was torn and I could not walk with my leg. Strangely, I did not have to.
I lay there four-legged on my back, in crab position, while the dune maw just stared at me.
Is it blind because I destroyed its eyes?
Slowly, I got up again. I wanted to depart with the bush as a cane, but the creature grabbed my arm. The stick fell to the ground and my hand would soon be its next meal. There wasn’t much I could do. I could barely walk on one foot and my free arm stood no chance against its tentacles.
Then a scene from The Future After Man came to my mind. I untied my backpack and threw it next to me. The dune maw let go of me and followed it. The backpack was too hard to be seriously hurt. I just wanted to have it away from me.
In The Future After Man, there is a scene that dealt with so-called mammoth lizards 75 million years in the future. These animals are really huge and are constantly compared to elephants by the documentary. I for my part learned an interesting detail. Elephants have some kind of seismic sense with which they can pick up vibrations in the ground. That’s how they detect hunters from miles away and that’s how the dune maw knew exactly from which hole I would appear.
Now that the vision was bad and its eyes were gone, the seismic sense was all it had. Since it didn’t know where I was, I had bought myself time.
It was right in front of me at a distance of no more than two meters. I would not leave until I defeated it.
Like a caveman, I stormed towards it with my spear and stabbed into one of its small interior eyes. A nictitating membrane covered the wounded compound eye like a patch.
That was it. That was the final blow needed to chase it away. It was a predator. A predator which it was not used prey that fights back.

[creature386]

I wonder how we can distinguish this from the "Create your own animal" thread. This thread was created before GreenArrow thread and was supposed to include fictional animals, too (including those I created for my speculative future evolution project).

One could say that GreenArrow's thread is for animals while this one is for stuff like alien, monsters and fantasy creatures, but his thread clearly includes stuff that would fall in either category, too (including magic bears, cyber bears and alien ants).

I guess if something is clearly a metazoan (or derived from one, as the alien ants and magic bears are), it should go in GreenArrow's thread. If it sounds like it belongs in some speculative fiction genre (see the title), it goes here.

[dinosauria101]

Like I said, it was just a mercy post to keep this going.
But yes, I suppose you have a point. So I'll copy-paste that last post over there and delete the one here

[creature386]

Thanks for that though. I have another profile ready (the horror creature I shared on Carnivora), so maybe this thread one day reaches a second page (even if it is just a monologue by me).

[creature386]

Terrapod

See this thing?

Imagine it was bigger, had only two legs and had a back covered with spikes like those of this guy:


Scientific name: Terrus podus (Earth foot; yeah, it’s terrible)
Taxonomy (tongue-in-cheek):
Genre: Science-fiction creature
Category: Extraterrestrial life form
Type: Alien animal
Subtype: Herbivorous alien animal
Distribution:

Picture of a superhabitable planet.
Terrapods live on a planet called „Eden“, a so-called „superhabitable planet“ orbiting a K-star. Eden is covered in red plants and is much more massive than Earth, with an 18% higher gravity pull.
Terrapods primarily inhabit the planet’s Southern Hemisphere in the twilight between woodlands and grasslands (read the „Ecology“ section for more details).
Physical description:
With its long tail, long head and short torso, a terrapod superficially resembles a sauropod. However, an observer from Earth would quickly note two odd things. First, they’d spend a lot of time wondering where the head and where the tail is as both look identical. Both ends of its body carry a disc-shaped head. Both „heads“ contain their own brain, although the central brain is closer to the back region. Despite this, only one of these heads has a mouth and fisheye lens eyes resembling those of a nautilus. It is believed that the identical look of head and tail exists to confuse predators. This symmetrical bauplan is characteristic for large „vertebrates“ of Eden.
Terrapods can reach a mass of up to 72 t (60 t, if they were weighed on Earth instead). That’s in fact close to the theoretical mass upper limit a terrestrial animal can possibly reach in a gravity as high as Eden’s. This crushing weighed is supported by merely two legs.
Much like the Pokémon Torterra, terrapods can grow little trees on their backs, although they are more akin to the spikes of some sauropods than anything else. These „trees“ in turn support small ecosystems which provide smaller animals with shelter.
Ecology:
Terrapods are herbivores traveling in herds.
Much like African elephants, their relentless hunger is capable of altering habitats by destroying trees and turning woodlands into grasslands.
Reproduction:
As with most animals on Eden, terrapods are hermaphrodites. Two terrapods might fight over status to decide who gets to be the „male“ and who the „female“. Since a given herd usually needs less males than than females, the terrapods with the highest status (e.g. the most victories) are typically allowed to impregnate everyone else.
Young terrapods often grow up on their mother’s backs where they are safe from predation.

VS-information:
Combat capacity: Low superhuman. Realistic animal abilities, but for obvious reasons, no unarmed human is a match for them.
Abilities: Large Size (Type 1; which is building-sized by vsbattles.wikia’s ranking), superhuman strength and durability.
Destructive capacity: 9B+ (Wall level)
Lifting strength: Class 10 (They can support their young on their backs until they reach the mass of an African elephant)
Striking strength: Wall level+
Durability: Wall level+
Speed: Below average human (about 5-6 m/s, note that even a fit human would struggle with that speed in Shadowmoon's gravity though)
Stamina: High.
Range: Several meters due to sheer size
Intelligence: Animalistic.
Weaknesses: Slow.
Standard equipment: None notable.

[creature386]

Moved the profile of "They" from the villain thread to here. While there are no hard guidelines, I feel like they are more of a monster than a villain and hence don't fit in that thread.

To me at least, a villain must be somewhat human or human-like to qualify as one (e.g. have comprehensible motivations and a distinctive personality). "They" are too incomprehensible to count as one. Cyborg remains, as it might be inhuman, but it at least has more comprehensible motives.

Dunno what do to with Lila and my Teratosaurus. While I wouldn't call them villains, they are not exactly imaginary creatures either. I guess they can stay there as there is no thread for them.

This whole train of thought above arose because I have a profile on my computer about which I was not sure if it belonged in the villain thread or here. I decided it belongs here and I will post it tomorrow.

[creature386]

This profile was taken from Carnivora. I brought it here because I might not be able to do so in the future (those who can view the discussion thread know why).

Erlkönig (or Erlking or Alder king)
Picture:

Each of these trees could possibly be the Erlkönig. Each and every one of them!
Classification:
Genre: Horror
Category: Monster
Type: Non-humanoid monster
Subtype: Evil plant spirit.
Age: 1000s of years.
Size, weight, height: Depends on the plant he is inhabiting.
Powers and Abilities:
-Mind control: The Erlkönig is apparently capable of this. Forest hikers often report hearing a soothing voice which becomes stronger the closer they move to a certain tree. Once they are close enough, the voice tells them that salvation awaits them at a magnificent place which they can only attain if they kill themselves. There is a negative correlation between age and susceptibility
-Making people sick: Those who hear his voice begin to hallucinate and fall sick without any infection and a ridiculously short incubation time. Variations of influenza are most common. As with the suicide, he has an inexplicable preference for children.
-Possession: The Erlkönig can possess nearly any plant, no matter how big, but as the name suggests, he prefers to inhabit Alder trees. Since the Erlkönig is a ghostly being, he still lives on when his plant body is destroyed, as he can search a new one. He can also randomly change bodies at will if he feels like your potted plant is more interesting than the tree in the park.
The only way to be 100% safe from him to make sure that there is no plant around you.
Backstory and motives: Very little is known about why he drives people to suicide or makes them sick. Those who have studied his mythology believe he is a spirit from the Underworld who drags his victims to him out of a desire to be together with them. Others think this is just a myth he spread himself and that his real motives are far more alien and sinister.

I'm not sure if this belongs here or in the villain thread, but I view him as more of a monster than a villain, so I'd say he fits.

[dinosauria101]

@creature

Why would Taipan not let you import your villain profiles? That's just plain unfair

[creature386]

Chances are I might not be able to see them should I get banned.

[Infinity Blade]

This is a kaiju that I created, which I posted on Carnivora but first drafted on my notes.

Name: Tyrantonne

Gender: Male

Height: 300 meters tall

Weight: 110,000 tonnes

Age: ~1,500 years old

Appearance:
- upright stance (more like Godzilla as opposed to a normal theropod)
- thick hindlimbs with enormous thigh musculature (femur held subhorizontally), huge “drumsticks” (calf muscles), three lightly downcurved claws pointed at the tip on three thick weight-bearing toes on each foot. A highly recurved and sharp “dewclaw” is on each foot
- highly prehensile tail is thick at the base and tapers to a point
- very thick and muscular, yet flexible neck supporting an almost comically large head. Head has thick bosses over the eyes. Thick cranium. Snout foreshortened like in felids. Mouth filled with dentition similar to that of tyrannosaurines, but significantly thicker relative to length
- forelimbs somewhat similar in morphology to those of extinct Jamaican ibis, but covered in far less extensive feathers (instead being covered in scales with faint filaments in between). Metacarpal region sports rather large war hammer spike-like projection on the palmar side (this has three edges that are serrated), and a knob composed of the same material resembling the hammer side of a medieval war hammer on the “back hand” side. These projections are comprised of a bony core with a “keratinous” covering (actually a material far more durable than regular keratin)
- body overall very robust covered in large, thick, mosaic scales, each with a sharp, pointed apex from its center. Filaments resembling hair (really homologous to feathers) present between the scales. Abdomen and chest covered in overlapping scales akin to lamellar, with osteoderms underneath the skin acting like brigandine.

Origins/Backstory: Sample populations for every species living on Earth at the end of the Cretaceous were preserved from the extinction event at the end of the period by an as-yet-unnamed (and largely enigmatic) alien race from an extremely distant galaxy. Experiments resulting in genetic modification for various scientific purposes followed, while the ancestral populations were retained. Circa 50 million years ago, a troubled and violent university student of this alien species covertly took a small sample of Tyrannosaurus rex without permission, experimenting on his sample in order to optimize them to become extremely durable and potent biological weapons. Because of various troubles in his life (e.g. numerous romantic rejections, social rejection, and a lack of praise and favor over scientific work he had been working on in his university career), he had planned on unleashing his genetically modified tyrannosaurids on the general public (choosing animals over non-living weapons out of the sentiment that they would be more intimidating), particularly any of his university piers and professors, as an act of revenge. Upon completing his experiments he did as he planned and his genetically modified dinosaurs wound up killing several hundred people before authorities put a stop to the rampage. Although the dinosaurs were subdued and confiscated by the government, they were not killed, and were kept for scientific study and modified even further for martial functions over the years. 30 million years ago, the alien species had engaged in a war with another species that lasted until the late 5th century CE, continually modifying the original genetically modified tyrannosaurids during this time for their war. One particular specimen, what would later become known as ‘Tyrantonne’, was created during this time and was particularly notable for being among the strongest, if not the strongest, specimen ever genetically engineered up to that point. Upon the war’s end, Tyrantonne was discarded and left to live out his life in the Milky Way galaxy. He found his way to Earth and became a well known wonder - and terror - of medieval Europe. He commenced hibernation starting in 1517 CE, and has now awoke once again for reasons that remain unclear.

Abilities:
- Very strong. Shockwave from rapidly closing jaws capable of blowing away and destroying a galaxy with no structural damage to jaws and teeth, emphasizing the tremendous power and strength of the jaw apparatus. Very strong pectoral and shoulder muscles allow for powerful war hammer blows with its club-like forelimbs (be they with the spike end or a “backhand” with the hammer end), and kicks from the powerful legs with sharp claws prove very damaging to other monsters; limb strikes observed effortlessly destroying terrestrial planets the size of Earth, and are certainly capable of far worse damage. Thick skull used as a battering ram capable of similar damage. Tail can be used as a similarly powerful blunt trauma weapon or to grab, manipulate, or crush enemies.
- Very fast; top speed ~88 quintillion times faster than light.
- Durability level about twice above its own maximum destructive capacity.
- Can project superheated energy beams from mouth, nose, and forward-facing eyes; these can be made to be extremely precise (down to a molecular level) or having a wide spread.
- Can also blow powerful gusts of wind from its lungs. These may be amplified to the point of having “ice breath”. Even without this, however, the gusts of wind from its lungs are known to be so powerful that they can rip the skin and flesh off of other kaiju.
- Because of its lack of a need to breathe oxygen, its respiratory system is now more of a weapon system for windy/ice breath.
- Mouth and nose can spew or spit poison. Venomous “dewclaws”
- Exceptionally heightened senses.

Weakness(es): For all of his strength, speed, durability, and destructive power, Tyrantonne can be charmed by what it perceives as good music, coming to a complete halt even in the midst of combat. In the Middle Ages, overhearing music from a fair, wedding, or even the chorus from a church could lead him to the site of the noise without destroying anything. Music was played until the creature decided to rest, only to go away without causing any destruction upon waking up. It’s highly unlikely any actual harm could be done to him in the midst of combat due to its exceptional durability, unless its second weakness is employed. The enemy alien species of Tyrantonne’s creators had, during their long war, invented and continually innovated weapons to destroy the weaponized dinosaurs. The last iteration of such weapons was a one-man spaceship with a blade-like front end composed of a metal that, for an inexplicable reason, was dangerous to the genetically modified tyrannosaurids, even to Tyrantonne, if forced into their bodies. The blade-like front end was meant to be rammed straight into Tyrantonne, eventually killing it given its weakness to the material. There are, however, three caveats that must be noted: I) previous weapons made of this metal will not work on Tyrantonne, as an arms race between the creators and their enemies had occurred, resulting in increasingly more resistant tyrannosaurs and increasingly more potent weapons made of this strange metal, II) the species that made these weapons has become extinct within the last 1,500 years and thus such weapons are no longer manufactured; the blade-like spaceship is the only one known to be sufficiently powerful to destroy Tyrantonne, and III) the metal will take at least three minutes to kill Tyrantonne.

Additional info: When coming up with the second, lethal weakness I added here, I had both kryptonite and the Infinity Blade (the latter of which is from the game trilogy of the same name) as inspirations.

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Moved this thread along with GreenArrow's three threads (the one on superheroes, villains and animals) here, as this is now just the Sci-Fi and Fantasy section as opposed to a strict Sci-Fi/Fantasy combat section. Technically, the animal thread shouldn't belong here, but as nearly all entries are de-facto fantasy creatures, it has a place in this section.

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Just posted this on Carnivora, so I thought I could share my newest creation here, too.
Put in a spoiler for insecurity reasons. To increase mysteriousness, this species is described with spoilers minimized and the way a clueless scientist in the Primordial universe would describe them. Think of them as SCPs that turn you into a superhero.

SPOILER: Click to show

Name: Primordials
Taxonomy:
Genre: Superhero, Fantasy, Horror (their mysteriousness is why they fit in so many genres)
Category: Mysterious magical creature
Type: Enigmatic Empowering Entity
Sub-type: Familiar/Guardian entities (of their users)

Primordials are mysterious creatures that have existed since the dawn of the time (hence the name). What they share in common is that they are most likely ontologically basic minds. That is, they are conscious without being made of common matter. Needless to say, nearly all of them can perform actions that violate natural law. Despite having existed since the dawn of time, they only made themselves visible twice during the history of Earth. One time was in the prehistoric ages when vampires were still around. The second was shortly before the main story of Primordial started. It is believed that their contact with Primordials is why vampires were extinct and humanity might share the same fate.
So far, Primordials seem to be benevolent, even granting many humans they choose superpowers.
Here’s the rules for Primordial users:
1. Primordials often choose humans who undergo great personal trauma (reasons are a bit spoilerish)
2. Primordials are naturally drawn to one another, so one is more likely to become a Primordial user if there are others nearby. The concentration of users increases the close one is to one of the locations where they originally entered our world.
3. A Primordial user can (mostly, see below) only have one Primordial.
4. Most Primordials can only be seen and interact with Primordial users.
If visible, they be humanoid or look like familiar objects, such as cats, hands or axes. Many, however, look utterly weird and indescribable like something out of an H.P. Lovecraft story. Not all Primordials are individuals. Many appear as amalgamations of different minds which will still be classified as a single Primordial should their attributes prove sufficiently homogenous (such as a swarm of insects). There is a minority of researches who believes that even seemingly distinct Primordial minds should be classified as one individual. This is because a few users can violate the seeming rule that every Primordial user can only have one Primordial. These researches believe that these Primordials are in fact one and the same individual).
While their abilities defy natural law, scientists have nonetheless managed to classify them.
Here are the classes.
Shifters transform the user into a different entity. Said entity will usually still resemble the user, but either have vastly amplified natural abilities or abilities a human does not possess at all (such as intangibility or invisibility). Occasionally, the shapeshifting violates the conservation of mass and energy (Nathan can shift into a bat which is far less massive than a human). A common hypothesis is that Primordials get the matter and energy pocket universes they carry around with them and there is indeed some evidence that these exist. These pocket universes can power the user to perform superhuman feats even if they lack the metabolism to do so. When the user is untransformed, the pocket universes restore energy through sunlight or another external source. Only very rarely can the pocket universes also carry items. Should they exist, they would be great evidence that the Primordials are in fact extradimensional entities. Shifters are almost always capable of transmutation (that is, changing the chemical elements the user is composed of after transforming). Several users (such as intangibility users) are not composed of known chemical elements at all. Nathan’s Primordial is a shifter, so is Siris, the cat-like Primordial of the protagonist Melissa.
Boosters amplify the user’s natural ability or the ability of someone the user chooses. The only relevant difference between Boosters and Shifters is whether the transformation is temporal or permanent. Often, Booster users will be given an adequate physiology to support their new abilities. Boosters that actively harm their users are rare, but still existent and called Boosters, too. Interestingly, there are few Boosters that boost physical and mental abilities. Regenerators can heal wounds, but no PTSD and people with super-speed rarely have adequate reaction times (Shifters don’t suffer from this problem so much). There are definitely Boosters who increase mental abilities, but researches debate whether they should be classified as Cartesians instead.
Cartesians are Primordials who affect the mind directly. Those who demonstrably affect the mind through indirect means (by affecting the central nervous system, sensory organs or hormonal glands) are Boosters instead. Cartesians most often increase the users intelligence, reaction speed and the like. They can, however, also invade people’s dreams or steal people’s souls. Soul stealers are one of the most well-researched classes of Primordials. They are the main reason why Cartesians are considered a distinct category from Boosters at all. For explanation a person with their soul stolen might live a perfectly normal life with normal neurochemical patterns, but report a lack of subjective experience or even an experience that contradicts their behavior and brain chemistry, such as extreme pain from being tortured for eternity. While most researches see this as evidence for a non-physical component of the human-mind (a soul) which Primordials affect, others believe that they just manipulate brain chemistry in ways we cannot detect yet. This minority group cites soul-stealers that leave obvious biological effects on their victims. Said victims end up with brainwave patterns and body processes reduces to the subconscious, like breathing or heartbeat. (Illegal) research, however, shows that these biological changes happen with a significant delay to when the soul stealing is reported (by the user and the victim) to take place.
There is another piece of evidence that Cartesians affect a non-physical part of the human mind (soul), namely the fact that Cartesians who give their user super-intelligence don’t change their brain architecture significantly. The soul-stealers are more significant in this regard, however.
Cartesians are named after French philosopher René Descartes who believed mind and body were distinct. The scientific community takes Cartesians as evidence that Primordials as a whole might be non-human souls that have learned to manipulate reality.
Cartesian users with amplified intelligence are some of the most economically valuable Primordial users, due to their inventions.
Guardians help the user by being like their personal Pokemon or like Stands from JoJo. Most are invisible and appear like telekinetics when moving objects for the user. In fact, the vast majority of telekinesis users actually use Guardians. Visible Guardians can be obvious (like a pet following them around) or inconspicuous (like a knife worn around the belt). Most can be summoned and de-summoned into existence. This is good for fixing them if they break. A few telekinetic Guardians are small enough to manipulate matter on a molecular scale. These can accelerate atoms to give the user control over fire or slow them down to grant freezing powers. Many telekinetic Guardians can only move one thing, be that water or metal. Those who generate water or fire from nothing are more likely to be Warpers. Where Guardians take their energy from is not known. Either they generate energy ex nihilo and give their user no control over it or they have pocket universes, too. For whatever reason, they don’t offer the enormous economic benefits Warpers do.
Warpers have power over spacetime as well as the ability to create matter and energy from nothing (other Primordials can likely do this, too, especially if the pocket universe energy hypothesis is false; Warpers just go beyond the norm). The of powers a Warper can grant know no limits. Forcefields or energy beams are just the lower end. At the higher end, we have blatant manipulation of space and time: Teleporters, time travelers, time stoppers, precognitors, space warpers, space erasers, you name it. Due to being living perpetual motion machines, Warpers have unspeakable economic value. Just a few of them can double or triple the GDP of a poorer nation. Only Cartesians are similarly valuable. In a fight, Warpers are typically the most overpowered class, except for…
Rogues are Primordials that affect reality without a user. Many are invisible and act through pocket dimensions, but the truly powerful can go out and rampage cities (if evil).
The powers and physiologies of Rogues are so varied that there is no point in classifying them. The only meaningful taxonomy concerns their goals.
Gods are benevolent Rogues who help mankind in some way (they are the rarest). Solipsists don’t interact with mankind and spend all their time in pocket universes. Aliens interact with humans in ways that are neither clearly good nor evil (say, protect a human from harm by stifling any and all freedom they have). Monsters are those who slaughter and torture humans for no comprehensible reasons. The strongest can threaten whole nations or even the entire cosmos. Getting rid of Aliens and Monsters is a huge government priority. Mankind doesn’t want to end up the same way the vampires did, after all.

Important note:
These classification systems are in-universe inventions of researches. The way Primordials work defies human logic as evidenced by the fact that each of these rules has exceptions.