Decrepit

The decrepit are a sapient species of anthropods who grow throughout their lives, able to create and emit radiation, using it as a form of energy production and defense. The energy is created seconds after eating, but emits massive amounts of radiation and causes severe damage to the surrounding area. 
Omnivorous, it views other races as a food supply and shows signs of extreme fear and sickness in the presence of high heat, humidity, or bright/flashing light. Emits occasional shrieking sounds; all attempts to communicate have failed.
They consume to create radiation, if they don’t, they become decrepit, until becoming lifeless husks, maddened by hunger. Some grow to giant sizes, and their need to consume grows with their size. If these giants do not consume, they become decrepit, shrinking down but still constantly emitting powerful radiation, as their conversion mechanism that burns flesh remains.
The species is incapable of growing fat, this explains why well fed specimens being very tall and developing bodybuilder physiques. The downside of this incapacity to grow fat is that when the specimen does not feed, their organism burns their muscle mass and skin, leading to their namesake appearance.
== Stages: ==
=== Necrophage ===
The basic creature, whose hunger has started to eat away at its skin, ears, and nose. While at this stage the creature will actively hunt for flesh to replenish its muscle mass but isn’t withered to the point of collapse.
=== Predator ===
A creature who has fed sufficiently and whose eating habits made its muscle mass and height grow exponentially, generally up to a weight of 400 kg and standing over 3 meters tall. These creatures show average intelligence and skills, such as rudimentary cooking and the creation of food supplies.
=== Apex ===
A creature who is extremely well fed, and stands well over the size of an average giant at thirty feet. These monstrous creatures get their name from the fact that they have no natural predators, and are often at the center of raider cults who feed the creature in exchange for their lives.
=== Radiant ===
Radiants are believed to be Apexes who have been sufficiently starved that their body shrinks around the creatures radioactive core, now a bright fluorescent color. These creatures are even more hungry than necrophages, some have even been observed to eat dirt to placate their endless hunger. 
=== Apex Radiant ===
A radiant who has such radiation that its enormous size doesn’t hide its massive irradiated core. Whether this is because the radioactive output of this creature is so massive or if the Apex Radiant was simply much larger and has shrunk due to not feeding itself sufficiently is unknown.
=== Husk ===
If the creature does not feed for a certain period of time, it will fall into a coma like sleep, only awakening when it smells flesh nearby, which it will attack to feed itself like an ambush predator, these are known as Husks. This ambush tactic is a last resort however, and a husk who does not feed will eventually die and dissolve into a pool of radioactive sludge.
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