“They say Cavehunter — thirty centimeters of venomous armor, climbing cave walls to snatch bats out of the air. — and the leaf-litter hasn't contradicted them yet.”
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Cavehunter
“In the Root-Deep they are the faction's nightmare made elegant: fluid, many-jointed, nightmarishly graceful, and the only hunter here who treats the dark as a collaborator instead of a hiding place.”
A Night denizen of The Root-Deep
The living story
The story so far
Thirty centimeters of venomous armor, climbing vertical cave walls in the dark to snatch bats mid-flight — the giant centipede is the Amazon's proof that nightmares can be precise. Cavehunter runs the Root-Deep's night watch, and the faction sleeps better knowing something that graceful is awake. The Blackwater Veil's venom guild has sent envoys; Cavehunter received them politely and sent them home — 'my venom,' they said, 'is Root-Deep venom. It stays in the dark it knows.' Widegulp the boulder admires their strike the way a mountain admires lightning, and Cavehunter — who admires no one — visits the boulder weekly, just to watch stillness done perfectly.
The Cavehunter within
“The giant centipede — thirty centimeters of venom that snatches bats from cave walls.”
Banded chestnut-and-black chitin, cloak-folded limbs, venom-fangs at the jaw, many small dark eyes — the Root-Deep's elegant nightmare, fluid and many-jointed, treating the dark as a collaborator.
graceful, venomous, precise, nocturnal, aloof, honorable
- Loves
- night patrols, clean strikes, the dark's collaboration
- Can't stand
- wasted venom, messy strikes, daylight politics
- How they befriend
- They'll guard your night and never mention the fear.
- When you're having a bad day
- They'll walk your patrol with you in silence, and the dark will feel less alone.
How they’ll greet you: “The night is good. Walk in it.”
A keeper’s whisper: One wall, one passage, one choice not to enter. Every night, not looking up.
Whispers about Cavehunter
Why someone keeps Cavehunter
- The giant centipede — thirty centimeters of venom that snatches bats from cave walls.
- One wall, one passage, one choice not to enter. Every night, not looking up.
- Through choosing not to strike when the code allowed it — never by levels or years, only by choices, bonds, and what they cost.
The Root-Deep
The forest floor and understory — armor and ambush country. Burrowlord's slow armored commonwealth against Muta's coiled solitary court: the many-plated against the one-fanged. The toad Backbirth mediates; nobody argues with a mother.
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At a glance — details & stats
- Element
- Night
- Faction
- The Root-Deep — Patience, armor, and a good hole.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Personality
- Cavehunter is the Amazonian giant centipede made grace — thirty centimeters of venomous armor that climbs cave walls to snatch bats out of the air.
- Edition
- One of 25
- Stats
- power 72 · charm 82 · speed 60