Krediloan

A Krediloan, or Kredi is an animal trait and the name of creatures displaying the trait. 
== Description ==
A Krediloan is an ape-like creature that superficially resembles a chimpanzee with four arms. It drapes itself in its own skin and has long palms compared to its fingers.  
== Animal trait ==
Krediloaning is a behavior where the animal marks its prey, without harming or hunting it and returns to eat it many years later, presumably when the mark is mature. 
== The Mark ==
The Kred's claw, Gloom mark or Krediloan's tally as it is called, is a dermatological effect that takes place when the Krediloan touches its prey. The mark will stay on the victim as a purplish spot that will turn jet black when the Kredi is coming for it. A second effect of this trait is that the mark will improve the prey's overall health, curing most diseases, preventing infections and healing wounds much faster than normal. If the mark is received by a physically immature individual, it will also noticeably affect the individual's muscle mass and height in proportion to its species standard height.
The mark disperses gene modifying viruses that copy DNA patterns and are re-injected into the host cells, causing the host cells to have their DNA modified with corrections to recessive genes. This causes the individuals to be genetically healthy, often taller and more physically apt than their peers.
The mark doesn't prevent all diseases though, it only prevents most bening forms.
It is noted that Kredi will never hunt sick people, the mark seems to prevent infections and most maladies. It is not uncommon for kredi to hunt older prey, but will only hunt the prey after the mark has provoked the changes on the individual. 
=== Defeating the mark ===
Defeating the Krediloan is enough for the mark to disappear, when the creature is defeated a strange metallic tumor shaped like a coin will form underneath the skin, called the Numismatists coin. The coin is believed to be what makes marked people enjoy a healthier existence.
== Behavior ==
The kredi spends the first ten years of its existence marking things, before it starts feeding on its first marks. How it marks things is unknown, the marks are usually on unusually large and healthy specimens of animals, creatures and other races alike.
=== Kredi in other race culture ===
Generally passed off as a birthmark, some other races believe the kredi's mark is responsible for their victims good health and exceptional physique, or in even rarer cases, magic.
=== Kredi and the Dalmer ===
Kredi mark cells are the basis for the mega virus used by Powers and the abandoned powered people project.
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