Lore
Zern
藍蛆（ゼルン）
Races & CreaturesMajor Races
A cave-dwelling race of the Abelion Hills, with an upper body like a long-armed eel and a lower body like an indigo maggot; they are considered demi-humans but are actually Heteromorphic.
- They feed mainly on the bodily fluids of creatures, living or dead.
- Almost all are female, and males become royalty; they lay eggs, and females may change sex if the tribe loses its males.
- Royalty (Zern Lords) look different: they are big maggots with parapodia.
- Because magic that affects only demi-humans works on them, both other races and the Zern themselves mistake them for demi-humans.
- Their color perception differs from humans'; they see gold as "dusky."
- They tell individuals apart by the sheen of their bodies (Vol. 12 p. 378); the Zern King appears at Vol. 13 p. 559
- The similar-looking, moss-eating "Pandex" are also treated as demi-humans and may likewise be a Heteromorphic race (Vol. 13 p. 413)
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