Moon related critters

>>55220586

Legends tell that the horrible monster Rikuaj was imprisoned on them moon by the gods ages ago. They are wrong. Moon i
s not the prison, Moon is the Rikuaj . He was bound, thrown in the sky and turned to stone. Forever watching the
world from above. But he is too powerfull to remain petrified forever. For this reason medusas were created. Their duty
is to look at the sky continue to petrify him. If a full month passes without a medusa somewhere glancing at the moon he
will start getting free.
And with the late dvelopment of the humans and exterimnation of medusas the world may face a terrible danger.

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Do you not like the moon?

The Poltergeist Moon

For a few days, the ten-million pound mass of stone hung in the air, insulting all of the physical laws and natural inclination of stone. It contained ko Macchen's now-empty tomb and several small cave systems. After a day of confusion, the displaced bats learned the new location of their old home, and nested there each night after a full evening of mosquito hunting. No trees or other structures were brought--it was just a mass of featureless stone.

Then, the poltergeist elementals began to carve away the peaks and tors. They didn't work during the day, and during the nights the forest below was filled with sound of boulders falling from several hundred feet up. At first, the observers thought that the poltergeists were merely shaping it into a sphere. Later, it became apparent that they were carving it into an exact replica of the moon.

Five weeks later, the miniature moon flew away, taking its caves, bats, poltergeist nests, and at least one giant cave sloth that sometimes crawled out of a mock crater in order to regard the surroundings disapprovingly.

Since then, the Poltergeist Moon has flown all over the world, chasing the shifting currents of planet's magnetic field. Scholars can find patterns in the Poltergeist moon that relate to coronal ejections of the sun and the rhythms of the aurora australis.

>>55223242

Wizards sometimes summon the Poltergeist Moon, and bribe it into service with offerings of thunderstorms, massive magnetic oscillators, or powdered alum. Collectively, the poltergeists of that flying rock are about as intelligent as a person, and certainly capable of understanding speech and behavior. They can be dealt with, although they are capricious and dishonest.

It also behaves as a normal poltergeist does, which can be boiled down to two behaviors: defending its territory and playing pranks. In one case of territory-defending, the moon submerged itself in the crater lagoon in Tremadiye Island and killed all the islanders that didn't flee. It even killed the crew of a ship that landed to investigate the ghost town. A few weeks later, it rose out of the lagoon and flew away.

When performing pranks, it mostly focuses on things that will scare, embarrass, or bruise. Schadenfreude amuses the poltergeist moon (perhaps something about the intersection of two German words). After a prank, it usually moves on amid a chorus of chuckles, but if a poltergeist elemental is killed, the whole hive flies into a rage, and it will attack like a nest of murderous, incorporeal bees.

Its most disturbing behavior is its tendency to pick a person (or group of people) and follow them around. Interesting people, or people with a lot of metal, are the ones most likely to be subject to this unwanted attention. Since the Poltergeist Moon resembles the actual moon, it's usually not obvious. How good is your depth perception anyway? Can you tell if the moon is 200' away or 200,000 miles? Have you memorized all of the craters on the moon? Did I really just see that flock of bats fly into the moon? Is that a giant cave sloth?

>>55223255

If you really piss off the hive (probably by killing a lot of poltergeists or pelting it with magnetism), the whole moon will turn around, revealing the dark side of the Poltergeist Moon. Which a giant face. Then it flies downward and slams into the ground, crushing everything. The stone mouth of the moon might even chew a couple of times if it needs to destroy a particularly resilient building. Then, if its target has managed to run away, the moon will pursue them by rolling.

It is said that the astronomers in the cities have the best lunar calendars. This is false. The best lunar calendars are maintained by the people of the Extremely Foggy Swamp, where the great predatory Lunar Flying Squirrels live.

screw this writeup actually. It's huge predatory gliders whose camoflage is that their underside looks like the full moon. If you look up, and the moon is there, are you going to panic? Not until AFTER your friend gets eaten.

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MOON BEARS (possibly filthy pinkos that wanna spray-paint Lenin's face on the Moon?)

These rotund brutes have large, flappy ears and dangling tails, but unlike other bears they have thumbs and walk on their knuckles, backs hunched due to how their arms are longer than their legs. They despise the civilizations on the world below and they steadily work towards conquering it. Their "lunar breath" is a plume of toxins that corrode and necrotize, but they rely more upon their jaws and electrified staff-slings to get the job done.

>>55220586
I remember a thread way back when on rpg.net where there was worldbuilding for a setting where the moon was actually a giant beholder that had been petrified. But its central eye still cast an anti-magic field, so the nights of the full moon were a cursed time when the gifts of magic failed. I always thought a cool thing to do with that would be to combine it with the werewolves in Larry Niven's "The Magic Goes Away" setting. In that, werebeasts aren't humans that use magic to turn into animals, they're animals that use magic to turn into humans, and they just never realize this because they're born this way and used to being able to flip back and forth at will. But put them in an anti-magic zone and they return to their true form, which is a mindless animal. So combine that with the moon casting anti-magic, and you have a good reason why werewolves' cycle is linked to moon phases.

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>>55225129
that is an AWESOME idea.

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>>55226221
Man I watched the whole lore gameplay of Bloodborne in one go. 30h of vidoes with no sleeping.

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>>55220586

WHy werewolves are much more powerful and diffused then werebears, wererats and other werecritter?

Cause werewolves are not a fusion of man and wolf but man a primordial beast, so powerful a werewolf outclasses any other werecritter.

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Turn incorporela in moonlight is a neat trick

Kepler wrote a novel about demons that live on the moon and travel to earth during eclipses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnium_(novel)