The Sap Beetle
Posted Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 10:02 pm by Brendon
An enemy of the Canopy Elves has made it’s way to the Bestiary: The Sap Beetle.
Scuttling in the bowels of trees and in the danker portions of the branchways, sap beetles are hardly an uncommon sight. Their appetites are considerably less compared to their days when they were fat, squishy grubs, but that’s replaced by their increased aggression. They will charge after anything they consider a threat, snapping their pincers and clicking loudly.
This specific breed of beetle, the sap beetle, is so called because they ate
high concentrations of the elemental sap found in Elevere while still in the
larval stage. When they matured, the sap was secreted to what would become their shell and formed into colourful crystals. You can tell what elemental sap a particular beetle snacked on as a grub by these crystals.
