The Histscream is a colossal eating machine. Though very rarely encountered by humans because of how long its hibernations last, when the two species do meet, The Histscream is always the victor.

The giant bugs are literal genocide machines. Capable of eating entire villages to the last woman, and leaving behind a sea of sloppy bones.

Sometimes Madeline would hear the merchants tell stories about how they would turn up to deliver a shipment to a town, only to find the final resting place of all of its citizens. The imperial capital would send out soldiers to sweep the bones into the city’s bonepit, and then settlers to recolonise it.
It has been noted by many scholars that Histscreams appear to be extremely intelligent, despite their lack of written language, cities, or tools. Any attempt to outwit a Histscream has generally been a failure. Armies have marched seeking to bring kill just one of the beasts, and vanished without a trace every time.

The tongue lifted Madeline up towards a chitinous armoured exoskeleton and evil red multifaceted eyes. It’s mouth armour opened wide, revealing a pink sucking oriface capable of stretching and consuming vast volumes of food, or larger predators. Everything was food to this vile bug.

Including Madeline.

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