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Scurge



A scorpion-like abomination, about the size of a dog. They live in a colony, headed by a Queen. The beak is not actually their mouth, though they do use it for tearing into their kills. But they don't swallow. The real mouth is actually the hole in their back. They're always out killing whatever they can fine, any way they can - strangulation with their tails, impaling with their bony legs, disemboweling and bludgeoning with their beak. They then tear off chunks of the body and stuff the parts into their mouths with their tails to take back to the Queen. They'll even cart back other Scurge that were killed in the hunt. The workers get whatever fluids drain from the corpses into their mouths, but the Queen gets everything else. The workers are completely blind, relying on vibrations and smell to find victims and their way back to the nest.


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This is a slightly older Scurge. When I started drawing this, I only had one Scurge in mind, and it wasn't until a little while after I finished this that I thought "Say, what if they were like Aliens, and there's a Queen?" I originally thought of calling this a worker Scurge, but the Queen just looks like a really bloated one of these, so I tried to make them a little more different.


First draft of Scurge, was eventually split into the Worker and Queen Scurges - note the eye in the beak, and it looks like it's laying an egg. The weird angle it's at is because I imagined it hanging off the ceiling.


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