Trench Brittle Star full artwork
Common · One of 400

Trench Brittle Star

“It carpets the trench floor and regenerates without pause, forever.”

A Cold denizen of The Hadal

3 known connections · an open question

The living story

The story so far

Ten kilometers down, where the pressure is a thousand atmospheres, the Trench Brittle Star does what its shallower cousins do: it carpets the floor, waves its five arms in the current, and regrows whatever the trench takes. Regeneration doesn't pause for pressure.

Happening now

Its beds spread across the trench floor beneath the anemone's wall, a lace of arms in the thin snow. The Bristleworm burrows below; the polychaetes work the mud; the Brittle Star regenerates above them all.

What may come

The beds are spreading — more arms, more lace, deeper. The trench floor is slowly becoming a single regenerating organism, and the Brittle Star is its skin.

Connected

The Hadal

The trenches are separate kingdoms that never meet. The Mariana snailfish holds the deepest throne of any fish alive — and no trench acknowledges any other.

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At a glance — details & stats
Element
Cold
Zone
The Hadal — the trench thrones
Rarity
Common
Personality
Five arms, ten kilometers down.
Edition
One of 400
Stats
power 38 · speed 38 · charm 66