Cremlings

Cremlings are a group of tiny scavenger crustacean-like creatures found on Roshar. The term cremling is often used to degrade and insult.
They are common in nearly every freshwater habitat, where crem is found.
==Appearance==
There are colorful cremlings: those with translucent reddish color and those with shaded carapaces. Like other crustaceans, they have purple blood.
When Kaladin is in the slave wagon, he sees an unusual cremling after the Highstorm, which is more than it appears.Starsight Release Party, Orem, UT, 11/26/19
The appearance of cremlings is not uniform. They are small and multi-legged, bearing tiny claws, elongated bodies plated with carapace, or even wings. Cremlings that display red claws indicate that they are poisonous.
There is a variety known as a skrip, with a flat tail, two large claws, and long antennae.
Kaladin spots an odd cremling clinging to the side of a bench in a stormshelter. It had a multitude of legs, and a bulbous body, with a strange tan pattern on its back.
==Characteristics==
Cremlings are scavengers that feed on plants and the dead. In the chill that keeps bodies from rotting too quickly - though the dampness within chasms counteracts some of that, cremlings chew the skin off hands and gnaw out eyes. Soon the stomachs of their corpses are bloated with gas.
The tiny creatures, which are commonly found in crem, are also known as "storm's leavings." They scatter at the first sign of danger, retreating to their cracks and burrows. They are commonly used synchronously with "coward" as a derogatory term.
Rotting wood and stagnant pools of water are good for growing cremling larvae.
Cremlings are strange in Tashikk, and they only get stranger the farther west one travels. Closer to mountain ranges, some can even fly.
There are varieties of cremlings that can see Investiture.Starsight Release Party, Orem, UT, 11/26/19
==History==
Lift comes across a strange little cremling in the city of Yeddaw that, to her, is smaller than most, black, with a thin carapace and a strip of fuzzy brown on its back that seems spongy.
She also experiences a cremling that inches across a step, then clicks its chitin legs as if laughing. She surmises that there are strange cremlings in Yeddaw.
In Kholinar, Shallan is served steamed cremling. Eating cremlings wasn't uncommon, but it wasn't particularly fine dining.
==Notes==
According to Brandon, any time a cremling shows up that is oddly colored or some such, readers should pay extra attention to it. They won't all be relevant, but it is a running theme that readers should pay extra attention to.Starsight Release Party, Orem, UT, 11/26/19
==References==
Category:Fauna of Roshar