Kruthik

The kruthik are reptilian, insectoid creatures that hatch from eggs in a larval form before growing to a considerable size. Their hives are located in byzantine, underground tunnels that they burrow. The kruthik have a natural immunity to acid.

Kruthik drones, which grow up to the size of dogs, serve a kruthik queen, which can grow to the size of a horse and spit acid. Kruthik appear to communicate through hisses and chittering, and they seem to avoid areas where large numbers of other kruthik have been slain.

The kruthik were initially created by the Empire of Baal Turath as beasts of war, but with the fall of the empire, the means of controlling the kruthik were lost to time.