Talk:Lattice Colony (Disgustedorite)/Fauna/@comment-27599548-20170128233432/@comment-25175729-20170129201917

okay I'll give you one right now: the seed-eating Karkal

It's kinda like an ant (and the same size too!), but it only has three legs. It makes colonies in the ground and eats incubating seeds of plants and animals as well as unborn Gems, though it may also occasionally enjoy the shards of a softer type of Gem such as a Pearl for an occasional meal. Its body is like if an ant got fat--it has the general shape, but thick while still having three visible segments (the head/neck, the part where the limbs attach, and the big ol' bug butt). Its mouth is similar to a centipeetle's, but shorter; and it has two large eyes with slit pupils facing foreward. It has one pair of anennae on top of its head, curving backward. Its butt is the same length as the rest of the body including the mouth, and it has a stinger like that of a bee but barbed.

The Karkal has three legs, like all creatures of its sort. The two front legs are spread out for balance and have three segments resembling the hind legs of a dog or a deer (or perhaps like the legs of your gem raptors) in terms of anatomy, while the one hind leg also has three segments and is shaped the same but with a longer middle segment. Its feet are flat on the ground and each have three broad claws made for digging. When it runs, it propels itself with all three limbs to swiftly hop. Its body generally remains approximately parallel with the ground.

Karkals have a few classes--Royalty, Workers and Caretakers. The royalty is the only class to come in both male and female; the workers and the caretakers are all infertile females.


 * Royal karkals, sometimes called kings and queens, are the founders of their colonies. They are larger than the others and have two pairs of leathery bug wings somewhat resembling those of a moth. The royal females are also even larger than the males but have smaller stingers.


 * The worker karkals are the medium size and are the ones commonly seen above ground patrolling their territory and searching for seeds to dig up. They also serve as a sort of military for the colony. They never have wings.


 * The caretakers are the smallest class of karkal. They stay in the colony deep underground, caring for and protecting the incubating offspring of the colony's king and queen. They almost never leave the tunnels except when the colony has to move for whatever reason. They never have wings.

Their gemstones are like a grain of sand to match their small size, and can be anywhere on their bodies. Their colors and gemstone vary based on the local minerals, like all life on Lattice.