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    Joshua Scheele replied to the topic What is the most bizarre creature you have created for your WIP? in the forum Fantasy Writers 4 years ago

    @jared-williams

    Thanks! I am glad it made sense. Though I did not explain it thoroughly as I should have.

    I think that is easily done. Perhaps something like it’s teeth produce one venom, and they have to bite the victim to use it, like a snake. Another is formed by it’s spit, like certain cobras can do, and then another perhaps is secreted in it’s skin, like some frogs, or even perhaps more specifically, like in its fingertips, so when it scratches someone, they are infected by that particular poison. Those venoms can then be easily separated by purpose. Scratches kill – spit paralyzes, and bites transform. Or something like that.

    Thank you for this idea! I will need to play it out and tweak it.  It would like make it more understandable to the reader if they saw the outcome and is able to pinpoint how it happened with kragvora anatomy.

    @obrian-of-the-surface-world

    I see your point and agree. I honestly hate our modern concept of zombies as they are just gross and gory. I agree our concept of reanimated dead comes from paganism specifically witchcraft. I don’t find the concept of people being taken over by a virus/pathogen/parasite and turned into zombies biblically wrong as it is something modifying/changing what is already there and was not created out of anything. However, I do find the witchcraft idea of necromancy biblically wrong as it is the reanimation of people recently killed to long-dead which is like evil giving life. I find it specifically wrong because it is the manipulation of the soul which is something I believe Christians should be extremely careful about and should avoid if possible. I personally am leaving out magic so it does not give the idea that necromancy could be possible in my world. I will give people fantastical abilities mostly exclusive to their race that is fueled by radioactive energy emitted by certain types of crystals on the planet’s surface.

    I originally got my idea for the Kragvora from vampires and Tolkien as most would say Morgoth did not create his creatures out of anything but changed existing good living creatures/elves into bad ones. Then my idea for the feral humans and also the kragvora themselves came from reading about real zombie bugs where a worm parasite or fungus spores will hijack the bug’s body taking control over its brain and body. Depending on the parasitic organism/fungus, it will do whatever it needs in order to survive till the host dies and is unable to function. Thankfully God did not allow this to be possible for us vertebrates otherwise we would have a real zombie problem.

    I think the undead idea is different from the normal gory concept of a zombie because my nanobots will make sure the body stays healthy and intact so it can successfully accomplish what it is programmed to do.

    I had another idea I was wrestling with that does follows the bug zombie concept better than the idea of the host being killed off in order for the parasite nanobots to take control of the body.

    My other idea was to keep the victim’s consciousness alive but imprisoned /suppressed as the victim has lost control his/her body as it is hijacked by the nanobots and is turned into a feral mutant with the intelligence of a vicious animal predator or turned into a kragvora assassin.

    I was not sure at first with this 2nd idea I had at the same time with the first idea. I am honestly thankful to this discussion and honest opinions, I think the 2nd option of keeping the host’s consciousness alive under the control of the nanobots and won’t die till the nanobot modified body does, is a much safer option to avoid misconceptions of them being zombies.

    Any further thoughts/opinions on which of the two is a better option?

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