| Class: | Realistic beast |
| Hab: | Most land and subterranean; avoid exposed bedrock lacking crannies |
| Fre: | Tiny and Small: non-swarming: very common, swarming: uncommon Gargantuan: rare |
| Num: | Tiny: 10-100, Small: 6-36, Gargantuan: 1-6 |
| Lair: | 70% |
| Size: | Tiny: 1', Small: 5-10', Gargantuan: 50-500' |
| Move: | Tiny: 20 mph, Small: 40 mph, Gargantuan: 60 mph 10% of those with carbuncles "fly" through the sand at 10 x speed |
| Def: | Tough hide |
| Att: | Bite; tiny = dagger, Small = dog, Gargantuan = tyrannosaur or worse compacter |
| Int: | Simple beast |
| Spec: | Swarmers indistinguishable from non-aggressive non-swarmers Gargantuan + GIANT toothed trash compactor |
| Posns: | Carbuncle; hides valued for leather armor; flesh prized |
The serpents of air-breathing fish (which SEE), many varieties of earth eels are limited to sand or loose pebble terrains, there are others quite adept at burrowing through compacted soil and can even gnaw through wood or soft stone when ferreting out prey - or setting up and ambush, whether above ground, among ruins, or in the subterranean depths. They are very widely adapted sand swimmers; SEE Sand Swimmers, General.
Sand eels may be "free-living," taking advantage of what hidey-holes the terrain has to offer, or they may build homes of slime-cemented pebbles to dwell in. The most elaborate constructions are those of the Labyrinth Eels (which SEE).
Some sand eels are "basic beasts," swimming through the sand as through water as might a simple serpent. Others are enhanced by a Sep Stone Sand Swimmer Symbiont, which SEE. These may be marked by the stone set on or within their forehead. This stone is called a carbuncle.
The carbuncle is a telekinetic living mineral beat. It cleave open the sand before the eel, opening a passage as the eel moves forward, and shutting the way closed behind it. Often, this telekinesis extends to the body of the land-fish, such that its movement is more a flight than a swim through the sand.
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