Culvers

Culvers (also known as “Culling Beasts” or “Culling Worms”) are a force of nature in the Gorbus Ring. They look like worms that are five feet wide and ten feet long. They also have tiny mouths all over their bodies which allow them to eat from any direction. These mouths each have two bonelike pincers to pull in food. The Culvers typically move and eat as fast as a typical horse sprint.

The Pereval have a traditional hunt every ten years when they emerge from the ground. During this hunt, the Culvers overrun the land eating everything in their path. Plant, bug, deer, or person, nothing is safe from their hunger.

The Pereval kill them all as fast as they can, but thousands of acres of life is demolished and the bark on the great trees are shaved bare. This mass extinction is a necessary part of life in the Gorbus forest. The blood of the Culvers acts as a fertilizer for the ground that was skimmed clean. But it is also how the Culvers reproduce. The blood seeps into the ground carrying their eggs with it. Ten years later the next generation of Culvers emerge.

A Culver’s skin (and even the insides of its mouths) is difficult to pierce. Pereval bows are the best way to deliver piercing damage. A more common approach among non-Pereval individuals is to trick the beast into eating explosives. Culvers are also poor swimmers and can drown.

Close combat is not recommended. They’ll eat you.