Chasmfiend
An enormous chitinous greatshell that lives in the Shattered Plains chasms. The Alethi hunt them — sometimes for sport, mostly for the gemheart at the center of each chrysalis. SA:WoK:Ch 12
Presence
appears mentioned absent
Known facts
- gemheart-prizeThe Alethi highprinces compete on the Plains to reach pupating chasmfiend chrysalises first and claim the gemheart within. A live, ambulatory adult is something different — and far more dangerous.SA:WoK:Ch 12
- fourteen-legsWalks on fourteen chitinous legs, with four wicked horse-sized foreclaws on broad shoulders; uniform green eyes, a flattened tail, an arrowhead face full of barbed mandibles, and an overlapping multi-voiced trumpet bellow.SA:WoK:Ch 13
- pupates-on-plateausPeriodically climbs the wider western plateaus to make a rocky chrysalis and pupate under a coming highstorm. Vulnerable then. Break the shell with mallets or a Blade and cut out the gemheart — easy work for a fortune. The beasts come several times a week when it isn't too cold.SA:WoK:Ch 15
Appearances
- SA:WoK:Ch 12 Climbs onto the wrong plateau — the viewing plateau full of unarmed attendants, scribes, and unprepared soldiers
- SA:WoK:Ch 13 Trampling, claws-flying, ultimately killed and harvested
Related
- foreshadowsThe Voidbringer Illustration — Ancient artist drew something chasmfiend-shaped and called it a Voidbringer SA:WoK:Ch 28
Thread
- SA:WoK:Ch 12factgemheart-prize: The Alethi highprinces compete on the Plains to reach pupating chasmfiend chrysalises first and claim the gemheart within. A live, ambulatory adult is something different — and far more dangerous.
- SA:WoK:Ch 12introIntroduced as “Chasmfiend”
- SA:WoK:Ch 13factfourteen-legs: Walks on fourteen chitinous legs, with four wicked horse-sized foreclaws on broad shoulders; uniform green eyes, a flattened tail, an arrowhead face full of barbed mandibles, and an overlapping multi-voiced trumpet bellow.
- SA:WoK:Ch 15factpupates-on-plateaus: Periodically climbs the wider western plateaus to make a rocky chrysalis and pupate under a coming highstorm. Vulnerable then. Break the shell with mallets or a Blade and cut out the gemheart — easy work for a fortune. The beasts come several times a week when it isn't too cold.
- SA:WoK:Ch 28edgeforeshadows: The Voidbringer Illustration — Ancient artist drew something chasmfiend-shaped and called it a Voidbringer
Backreferences
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 12
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 13
- factSureblood
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 15
- factThe Tower
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 28
- factThe Voidbringer Illustration
- factThe Voidbringer Illustration
- summarySA:WoK:Ch 55