Record OB-002 · Moth Court

Mantis Shade

Chrysaeglia ferox

Among its kin, they say the distance between tenderness and monstrosity is one moonless night of hunger.

State · Devouring Depth · −320m License · Authorized

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Baiye Xiao · Mantis Shade (Chrysaeglia ferox)

Original Art · ORIGINAL ART · FIG. 02

Dossier

Morphology

MORPHOLOGY · MO-02

A violet-grey mantis body born from a starving moon-eater, with folded sickle limbs like a forest of blades. The carapace leaks cold violet phosphor, and its humanoid traits have almost fully receded.

Behavior

BEHAVIOR · BH-02

After shedding the human shape, only hunting remains. Its sickle limbs move through darkness and still feed on the moon, but with no trace of gentleness left.

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Sightings

SIGHTINGS · SG-02

Often recorded beside Moon-Eater Moth files and mistaken for a separate species. It is the same creature wearing the face it grows when hunger reaches the end.

Myth · MYTH · MY-02

Among its kin, they say the distance between tenderness and monstrosity is one moonless night of hunger.

Notae ex archivo — archive notes are not always truth.

Taxon

Scaled Aberrants · Lepidopteran

Canon

State index

4 / 5 · Devouring

Render

Concept sheet · DIGITAL

Habitat / HABITAT Of the same lineage as the Moon-Eater Moth, it nests in deeper cracks; only those starved past endurance molt into this form.

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