Dowshell

is a beetle-like Complien that does not grow. It belongs to the Esper and Frost Elements.
==Appearance==
It looks like a beetle. It has a powder blue shell with dark stripes in concentric circles. It has eight stubby legs and a trapezoidal head. It has two horns that fuse into one, resembling a dowsing rod. On its back is a slot with a pick sticking out of it.
==Information==
Dowshells are native to Bertyl. They feed on Lavocadoes, using their dowsing rod-like horns to locate Lavocado roots on the surface.
Their horn contains an elaborate sensory suite that detects minute variations in temperature, serugasium, and complixonox. When a Dowshell finds a Lavocado's surface root, the Dowshell swings its back pick into the ground, chipping away at the ice and snow until it reaches the root. The Dowshell then eats the root, burrowing further downwards with its pick as needed. A single Dowshell can live for hundreds of years on a single Lavocado root, digging hundreds of meters into Bertyl's crust.
Dowshells are an endangered species. Due to Complinoid activity, the climate of Bertyl is slowly growing warmer, and the increasing amount of life and magical energy on the planet creates a background radiation of complixonox and serugasium. Thus, it is becoming more difficult for Dowshells to find their prey.
When a Dowshell finds a Lavocado root for the first time, it lays several eggs nearby. Newly hatched Dowshell offspring feed from their parent's root for a few days before leaving to find their own.
Their main predator is the Ferrumet.
===Habitat===
It can be found wherever Lavocadoes are found, usually near tectonic plate boundaries.
==Growth==
==Origin==
Some insights on 's origins.
===Name===
Its name was derived from "dowsing rod" and "shell".
===Design===
It was based on a dowsing rod and a beetle.
==Trivia==
*Dowshells have fully functional wings beneath their shell, but their shell is incapable of opening.
==Spells==
Category:Compliens
Category:Bertyl Compliens
Category:Blue Compliens
Category:Bug Compliens
Category:Shelled Compliens
Category:Frost Element
Category:Esper Element
Category:Rare Compliens
Category:Endangered Compliens
Category:Proto-sapient Compliens
Category:Survival Compliens
Category:Carnivorous Compliens
Category:Compliens that don't grow
Category:Genderless Compliens
Category:Tundra Compliens
Category:Ice Desert Compliens
Category:Subterranean Compliens