Basilisk (Sacred family)

Rock on.

Location

Within the Saltide Swamp there is a monolith. Climb the monolith and you can perform the ritual to awaken the Basilisk for 30 Lunars.

Powers

With their Petrifying Gaze, enemies stiffen and slow, almost petrifying, in their presence. Additionally, they can expel a Toxic Cloud from the toxins they are adapted to survive in.

Thematic Information

The Creators seem very fond of their hybrids. The basilisk is largely a serpent, though it has a crown on its head like that of a rooster. Like all beings, it possesses legs, feet, hands, and all the other parts. Its role, in the times long past, was to be the first to arrive on worlds where the very atmosphere was poisoned, and to prepare it for other, gentler, beings to arrive later. They are fully capable of breathing methane, ammonia, sulfur, and many other airborne toxins.

Their composition is woven with a unique earth math that causes those they focus their ire on to stiffen and 'petrify'. Those facing them are slowed profoundly with no effort from the basilisk, thanks to this gift from the Creators. Quite a useful tool to have, considering they were often outnumbered in those perilous first years of arrival.