Coelum Carnis

The Monolith as depicted in the Living Meat Research Documentary.

**Coelum Carnis** (Latin for: ***Heaven of the Flesh***), commonly referred to as **The Monolith**, is the 7th member of the Carnis family, and the 4th hostile species in the family. It is unknown whether the Monolith is a product of the crawl. All 7 documented monoliths that were discovered in 1972 were found on an island in Hudson Bay, Canada.

### Physical characteristics

A Monolith is a large, 120 meter tall tower of tightly-woven meat fiber with two extremely thick limbs acting as legs, and several long appendages on its side, its flesh is a red colour similar to other members of the Carnis family. It has a vaguely triangular head with a circular hole through the head. The structure of the Monolith is entirely made up of strands of fiber, tightly woven together to form the body, the strands converge at the neck to form a solid head. In place of arms, the Monolith has hundreds of thin, rope-like strands that scrape the ground, and its trunk-like legs and feet are rooted deeply into the ground making it impossible to unroot a Monolith using current technology. The Monolith is capable of letting loose a roar from its orifice, however this was only ever heard during an unknown time and date when they became active.

### Behaviours

All 7 of the Monoliths are found on the island in a completely idle position, arranged around a circle that's 1.5 km in diameter, this ring of Monoliths surrounds The Singularity, each monolith is around 0.67km apart from each other on the circumference of the circle. All Monoliths are completely silent, and completely still, which makes them comparable to plants and trees. The only time they have been found active was in an unknown incident.

#### Attack behaviours

The Monolith has only ever been active once, and during this period it was very aggressive. It demonstrated several attacks.

* The Monolith can use its appendages to swipe and whip opponents.
* It can let out an EMP blast from its mouth to completely derail vehicles in the vicinity.
* It has incredible regenerative abilities, as seen when a rocket was shot at its leg, it regrew the lost flesh within seconds.

### Life cycle

Not much is known about the life cycle of a Monolith, this is due to the fact that the Crawl hasn't produced a Monolith node to date, the Monoliths have not been observed to reproduce in any way.

### Relations to humanity

The Monolith serves no benefit to humanity, instead posing as an enormous liability to the entire planet.

### Trivia

* The island that the Monoliths supposedly reside on, does not exist in real life. It may have been artificially created by the singularity in the Vita Carnis universe, or is just a made up island. The island has since then been roped off.
* There was an incident in [REDACTED] when the monoliths did become active and proceeded to walk toward civilization where they may have caused havoc, it was only after rockets were fired at it, did the Monoliths return to the island and have been stationary to this day.
* In real life, there is a gravitational inconsistency in the middle of Hudson bay, near where the Singularity and the monoliths are residing. This may be caused by the Singularity in-universe.

### Gallery

Image capturing an active monolithAn image of the monoliths captured outside the islandA diagram showing the circular pattern of the monoliths stances as they surround the singularityThe size of a Monolith's foot compared to a human