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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 9260857" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Remembered something I was planning to add to the Underdark Damselfly but forgot to put in the <strong>Description</strong>.</p><p></p><p>I've amended the <strong><a href="https://www.enworld.org/posts/9249563" target="_blank">Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly</a></strong> as follows.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: magenta"> <em><strong>Ghost and Phantom Larvae.</strong></em> The main reason the drow have failed to exterminate the mammoth underdark damselfly is ghostwings and death phantoms are actually the same species. The larvae of underdark helicopter damselflies larvae can metamorphose into adulthood from a range of instars (larval growth stages) far wider than any natural odonatid, with adult sizes ranging from a Small ghostwing to a Huge death phantom. To eradicate the mammoth underdark damselflies would thus require slaying every ghostwing in the Underdark and destroying all their eggs and naiads. The drow are unaware of this, and the task is nearly impossible even if they knew.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: green"> After mating, female underdark helicopter damselflies lay their eggs in water to hatch into the next generation of naiads, which become adults when environmental cues trigger their transformation. In general, naiads who live alongside larger predators transform into adulthood as early as possible, becoming ghostwings and flying to somewhere safer, explains why the underdark giant damsels' commonest adult size is the ghostwing. However, the most successful naiads will grow into one of these "larger predators" themselves before becoming old enough to metamorphose into adults, in which case they attempt to reach Huge size and become death phantoms.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: green"> Underdark helicopter damselfly naiads can become intermediary adults between a ghostwing and death phantom in size, but this is unusual. This typically only happens when their water pool is just big enough for a single naiad to develop into a Large underdark helicopter damselfly, a creature dubbed a <em>Wraithwing</em> by the surface dweller who discovered it (see Imperial Giant Dragonfly for statistics).</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: green"> An underdark damselfly's eggs can survive out of water for an impressive length of time, lying dry and dormant until conditions are better. In addition, underdark damselfly naiads are incredibly adaptable, able to live in an extremely wide range of water temperature and chemistry, from near-boiling brine to crystal-clear icewater, and are also amphibious, able to breathe air as well as water. While they prefer to live in water, an underdark damselfly naiad only has to be submerged when it hatches from its egg, or when a naiad of Large size or bigger needs to molt its exoskeleton and grow into its next instar (see Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly Naiad for details).</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> <span style="color: magenta"><em><strong>Tied to Eldritch Deeps.</strong></em> Underdark helicopter damselflies have become dependent on the Underdark's mystic radiations. Without regular exposure to its eldritch glow they wither and perish in weeks, which becomes days if they contact the light of the surface world. Daylight or moonlight will cause the corpse to rapidly decompose into useless waste, much like how some drow equipment cannot abide the touch of the sun.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>Also worked out the numbers for most of the Larvae, but there's two things I'm conflicted about.</p><p></p><p>Details will be in my next post once I've updated the Nymphs and Naiads.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 9260857, member: 57383"] Remembered something I was planning to add to the Underdark Damselfly but forgot to put in the [B]Description[/B]. I've amended the [B][URL='https://www.enworld.org/posts/9249563']Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly[/URL][/B] as follows. [INDENT] [COLOR=magenta] [I][B]Ghost and Phantom Larvae.[/B][/I] The main reason the drow have failed to exterminate the mammoth underdark damselfly is ghostwings and death phantoms are actually the same species. The larvae of underdark helicopter damselflies larvae can metamorphose into adulthood from a range of instars (larval growth stages) far wider than any natural odonatid, with adult sizes ranging from a Small ghostwing to a Huge death phantom. To eradicate the mammoth underdark damselflies would thus require slaying every ghostwing in the Underdark and destroying all their eggs and naiads. The drow are unaware of this, and the task is nearly impossible even if they knew.[/COLOR] [COLOR=green] After mating, female underdark helicopter damselflies lay their eggs in water to hatch into the next generation of naiads, which become adults when environmental cues trigger their transformation. In general, naiads who live alongside larger predators transform into adulthood as early as possible, becoming ghostwings and flying to somewhere safer, explains why the underdark giant damsels' commonest adult size is the ghostwing. However, the most successful naiads will grow into one of these "larger predators" themselves before becoming old enough to metamorphose into adults, in which case they attempt to reach Huge size and become death phantoms. Underdark helicopter damselfly naiads can become intermediary adults between a ghostwing and death phantom in size, but this is unusual. This typically only happens when their water pool is just big enough for a single naiad to develop into a Large underdark helicopter damselfly, a creature dubbed a [I]Wraithwing[/I] by the surface dweller who discovered it (see Imperial Giant Dragonfly for statistics). An underdark damselfly's eggs can survive out of water for an impressive length of time, lying dry and dormant until conditions are better. In addition, underdark damselfly naiads are incredibly adaptable, able to live in an extremely wide range of water temperature and chemistry, from near-boiling brine to crystal-clear icewater, and are also amphibious, able to breathe air as well as water. While they prefer to live in water, an underdark damselfly naiad only has to be submerged when it hatches from its egg, or when a naiad of Large size or bigger needs to molt its exoskeleton and grow into its next instar (see Mammoth Helicopter Damselfly Naiad for details).[/COLOR] [COLOR=magenta][I][B]Tied to Eldritch Deeps.[/B][/I] Underdark helicopter damselflies have become dependent on the Underdark's mystic radiations. Without regular exposure to its eldritch glow they wither and perish in weeks, which becomes days if they contact the light of the surface world. Daylight or moonlight will cause the corpse to rapidly decompose into useless waste, much like how some drow equipment cannot abide the touch of the sun.[/COLOR] [/INDENT] Also worked out the numbers for most of the Larvae, but there's two things I'm conflicted about. Details will be in my next post once I've updated the Nymphs and Naiads. [/QUOTE]
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