Stone Crab, or Slab Crab
Credit to Nintendo??
Habitat: Marine, though they can go almost a month without receiving water before drying out, unlike most aquatic crabs. When on land they are typically found in coastal caves on or in close proximity to shorelines.
Size: Anywhere from golf ball size to the size of a small car (think punch buggy) though most sit at a comfortable soccer ball size or something similar. The latter are almost entirely immobile and are usually situated in the water as to not have to scramble to moisturize itself.
Diet: Omnivore, the creature can also consume rocks of varying types to siphon minerals from them for nutrients. Plants and minerals are most often what it eats, but it /can/ consume meat, if it gets it claws on some, this is uncommon. But it's not impossible for them to snap up the odd crawfish or shrimp that trespasses in its space.
Temperament: Mostly passive to most creatures of equal size or larger than themselves in the wild. Only the largest would even attempt to kill a descendant and such would very likely only occur if the descendant willingly put itself in harms way given how slow the larger crabs are.
Brief Summary of the Creature: A six crab with two thick pincers that can be of varying size, its body covered with thick stone plates that was quite resilient. On their back is a large hunk of rock akin to that of a hermit crabs shell. While capable of great feats of strength and endurance, being able to lift and hold up very heavy plates of stone that cover their body and back nigh constantly. They are awfully slow, and almost incapable of hunting other creatures without the element of surprise.
Characteristics: Passive, stronk, resilient to concussive damage. Bred via eggs layed by a female after being fertilized by a male, though they live for almost 30 years, so they have no particular rush to breed like mad and their population is steadily fairly high in the regions they inhabit. They frequently comb the bottom of seabeds and caves for plants and rocks to consume.
Origin: They have always existed, and I'm fairly sure they have an outdated lore piece from Aegis or Asulon that I cannot find.
LM Approval Required: No.
If playable, what are red lines?
-they are ridiculously slow
-the crabs are born at about golf ball size, and even though their body has stone plates, they are still small and weak enough to simply be stomped to death
-as per being a crab, they are particularly bad at forward and backward movement
-the stone they are coated in, and their rock shells do not carry any special properties beyond that of the material they are composed of. if not more susceptible to being picked or otherwise
-less of a red line and more of a guideline, but they shouldn't be played as an individual character. one can roleplay them alongside their character as a pet or travel companion, though.