Skelt

Skelts resemble huge insects having long and thin multi-jointed legs. Unusually for a creature of their size they can compress themselves and fit in tight or small spaces. Their hard and rigged bodies, like a crustacean, are split into three main segments where gaps in their armour appear but at odd angles and typically have barnacles encasing large portions of their shells. A most notable feature of these overgrown monsters rests on their horrific faces where a long and narrow, serrated bony tube protrudes out wards. They insert this 'tube' into their prey in order to suck its blood. Humans are a rare attack for these but if one were to wander to close to a cave or den it wouldn't hesitate to attack.

They live close to water, often in caves, and emerge only to feed.

Author: Nolan