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Engraved Insect
Magical beetles found in Japan, these creatures are considered by some to be cousins to African Scriverbugs, European Pismires and American Little Makers, also known for their etching abilities. Engraved Insects are more like Pismires than Scriverbugs or Little Makers, as they etch themselves, and individual specimens can often be identified by particular markings. These etchings can considerably reshape their carapaces, and Engraved Insects can come in a huge variety of forms as a result of their regular resculpting of one another.
Engraved Insects largely eat rotting wood, rather like Pismires, but will eat other things, depending on any etching done to their mandibles. Specimens are also often kept for study and fed a wide variety of things to observe the effects this has on their etchings. Further specimens are kept for their carapaces after death, as the etchings are considered to be a uniquely beautiful form of natural art, and as Engraved Insects are not Yokai, they do not need to be cleansed of more mutative magic as Yokai body parts do.
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Engraved Insect
Magical beetles found in Japan, these creatures are considered by some to be cousins to African Scriverbugs, European Pismires and American Little Makers, also known for their etching abilities. Engraved Insects are more like Pismires than Scriverbugs or Little Makers, as they etch themselves, and individual specimens can often be identified by particular markings. These etchings can considerably reshape their carapaces, and Engraved Insects can come in a huge variety of forms as a result of their regular resculpting of one another.
Engraved Insects largely eat rotting wood, rather like Pismires, but will eat other things, depending on any etching done to their mandibles. Specimens are also often kept for study and fed a wide variety of things to observe the effects this has on their etchings. Further specimens are kept for their carapaces after death, as the etchings are considered to be a uniquely beautiful form of natural art, and as Engraved Insects are not Yokai, they do not need to be cleansed of more mutative magic as Yokai body parts do.
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