Devouring
A power, one of the traits figures share. All traits.
Offensive
22 figures
Known for posing riddles to travelers, it would devour those who failed to answer correctly.
Each day, Sköll chases the chariot of Sol, the sun goddess, across the sky, his massive jaws forever snapping at her heels.
The creature is described as bloated and squat, bearded in some renderings, and its characteristic act is total consumption: it swallows people, cattle, dogs and whole settlements, and the accounts pile the categories up to convey scale.
This behemoth of the animal kingdom is said to dwarf even the mightiest elephants, possessing a body so vast that it could easily engulf these pachyderms whole.
Known for its macabre habit of digging up graves to feast on corpses, the Capelobo represents a primal fear of death and desecration.
Known for its incredible hunting prowess, the Chamrosh possesses the ability to strip flesh from bone with surgical precision.
As a cannibalistic entity, the Chenoo's insatiable hunger drives it to hunt and devour humans.
Once inside, the Hydrus begins its grisly work, using its sharp teeth and powerful digestive abilities to consume the crocodile from within, eventually emerging victorious from the hollowed-out husk of its formidable prey.
This monstrous entity is often described as a colossal beast with an insatiable appetite, capable of swallowing entire herds of livestock in a single gulp.
utilizing its most distinctive feature: an expandable beak capable of swallowing prey whole
Its constant thrashing and devouring embody the turbulent, chaotic nature of the universe before order was established.
Read as a personality, Apep is less a schemer than a force of pure, undying appetite, a will that wants only to consume and unmake and returns to that single purpose no matter how many times it is cut down.
Some tellings describe the Aswang digging up and devouring freshly buried corpses, sometimes substituting a fake body such as one carved from a banana trunk in the grave to conceal the theft.
then swallow the drained person whole, only to lie down afterward, sleep off the meal, and regurgitate the victim largely intact.
However, failure often results in the visitor being eaten.
It is said to consume vast quantities of vegetation, able to devour entire forests in a single day.
The creature then swiftly makes for the deepest part of the water, drowning its victim before devouring them entirely, leaving only the liver to wash ashore as grim evidence of its feast.
The Nian is a beast of Chinese folklore said to have lived either deep in the mountains or beneath the sea, emerging on the eve of the new year to attack villages, devouring livestock and, in some tellings, people, and children in particular.
Stories tell of the Piasa's voracious appetite, with some legends claiming it had a taste for human flesh.
Hesiod calls her ageless and immortal, and says she dwells apart from both gods and mortals in a hollow cave, in some tellings devouring raw flesh in her subterranean lair.
Once the victim is helpless, the boraro chews a hole in the top of the skull and sucks the internal organs out through it, leaving the body outwardly whole.
Iya belongs to the folklore of the Lakota, and the compendia that record the monster keep the description stark: it is large, terrible, and formless — a being without a fixed shape — marked by breath so foul it announces the creature, and driven by an appetite for human flesh.