Stalker

The race of the stalker is a ancient species of bug like creatures, which livedaround 600 years ago as predators in the desert. However thanks for the further use in magic, as well the trading potential around countries grow significant, the species got hunted down, until the point of extinction. However thanks for the survival of one species of stalker, which shows more intelligence and magic potential than other of his kind, the Mother started to slowly build up the race in an area of a desert, which slowly builds up and become a treat to any desert city or kingdom, as well as for traders, because the race follow the example of their strongest kind and grown in intelligence avoiding any unessecary conflict with dangerous opponents, while secretly growing in numbers and places.

## Appearance

All creatures of the category of stalkers resembles a fusion of bug and fish like appearance, with their armor like plates on their bodys and their shared purple colors. The livng circles, as well as the different forms of this creatures can vary on the environment and living conditions. With one expection, all evolution lines show no ability to see and rely on their hearing or feeling organs.

### Newborn

Every stalker starts as a Newborn. They are pretty big, around 4m long and 125kg heavy, with purple plates and horns, walking on for legs with crawls on them. However their exoskellet is pretty instabil, leaving a lot of holes to show of their soft issue. Thats why to spot a newborn in the open is very rare sight, because they tend to stay underground, until their develop further. They general treat level is D-class.

Two Newborns in the open
### Wisper

The wispers are the first evolution state of the stalker, which shrink in size and taking a more serpent like structure, compared to the newborn, with a size from only 3 meters but with a bodyweight from 250kg. This is the result for finishing they growth from the their exoskelett, encasing their whole body. Their only having their legs to walk and are in the only state, where they actively hunting on the surface, making them dangerous, especially on packs, however making them the most vulnerable in this state. They locate prey with their hearing and are otherwise basically blind. They general treat level is around B-class. If they survive long enough, they have normally two states to evolve into it.

A pack of two Wispers on the hunt
### Grounder

The Grounders are one of the evolutions of a wisper, which making them grow to a size of 7 meters and a body weight of 1500kg. They lose a part of their body platings to support their more worm like structure, investing they development into strong arms with big crawls to dig underground, big spike like legs on the back and a giant mouth to crush earth nand stone on the way to the ground, as well to use it as a trap for underground attacks. For this they use also use feeling organs, allowing them to sense movement on the ground to locate prey. They general treat level of this creatures is around A-class.

A grounder on the hunt
### Bulldoze

The Bulldozer are the other evolution line of the wispers, which build on a more frontal fight style and bulkiness, with a size of 6 meters and a body weight of atleast 2000kg. They resemble a body build similair to that of a rhino-beetle, with the expection of their body color completly purple and able to move their horn like a trunk, allowing them to dig underground, but much slower compared to the Grounder. However they set on a waiting time tactic, burying themself underground and waiting for approching prey. However while they lake mobility compared to the other evolution lines, they are the most resistance evolution line to damage, with they body plating complety covering their whole body and have the ability to acually see prey. They are the less aggressiv from the other evolution lines, which dont activly chase prey or going often to hunts. While they general treat level should be around B-class, they tend to sleep on pouplar areas or on trade routes making them, after a lot of violet awakenings from this creature to a A-class treat.

A Bulldoze, which awakes from his slumber
### Mother

Mother is so far the oldest and most developed evolution state of a stalker growing and earning abilities after many years of hunting, no other evolution state was able so far. With a mixture of a grounder and a bulldoze, she is so far the strongest and most smartest of this race with a treat level around S-class, with a prediction to grow even higher, thanks for his ability, to slowly reanimate this ancient species.

Mother on a hunting tour
## Abilities and Powers

### Physical Abilities

The stalker have all the characteristica to have armor plates, which give them a degree protection against magical influence or damage, while also ganting them a high damage resistence against physical force, which needed, while living in the underground. All forms, expect the wisper class, have the abilities to dig effectiv underground and move fast in this environment. All of the stalker class lack the ability to see something, making them completly blind in their vision senses. However they grow hightly developed hearing senses, giving them the ability to echo locate pray, either in the underground or on the surface. Another organ their develop is a pressure sense organ, using them while digging underground, able to sense vibrations on the surface to also locate prey.

### Magical Abilities

All of the stalker, after growing to the point of the wispers, have the magical attribute of the Confuse magic. This magic gets emitted from their body, sending them as invisible waves from a radius from 15m to 3000m, depending on their evolution state or size. This waves effect any species expect other stalkers or insect like creatures, which causes the victim to slowly lose their memories and lose their senses of orientation. The effect can be resisted, depending on how much magical potential the victim has, however always effect the victim via some time periods. This magic use the stalker as a hunting methode, following prey underground, sending their waves out, so they never leave their hunting grounds, making them exhausted and dehydrated over time, thanks for the environment.

## History

### Past

The stalker race exist, since 600 years before the current time line. A native hunting race, which lived in all deserts around Earthland. They were not an issue, until to the point, where the trading routes expend around all the world, making this creatures a nuisence, for always attacking the traders and the goods, so that humankind started a purge against the race, driving them to the extinction. However after 500 years, first sightings of new stalker were reported in the Forgetten Desert in Fiore. The nearby government fractions, first decided to start a second purge, however a organization, named The Company, found out, that in combinations with other materials and the armor plates of the stalker, a new material can be created, the Seal Alloy, which shows a great potential to absorb Magical Barrier Particles and able to use it as an alloy for their weapons and othe metals. This led the local rulers and council with the support of The Company, to spare the race and coordinate controled hunting parties to win the armor plates, leaving the wispers in most cases alone, because the winnable material is too low for a effectiv use to create this Seal Alloy. However only few people an The Company where aware of the existence of Mother, the only reason, why the race slowly rises from the extinction and every recording from this creature got ignored as a fail report, until to the point, that the growth of the Stalker gets uncontrollable. The council try to intesifies the hunting parties against this race, as well giving fail reports about the attacks of this creatures against traders or explorers, to avoid a panic of the nearby civilization. The measures of the council looked like they worked, as the attack rates atleast stagnate, however first reports of wispers, outside of the desert, bring the fear, that the stalker slowly adapt into environments, outside of the desert.

## Trivia

* Newborn are based on the Xer´sai Hatchling card from the game Legends of Runeterra
* Wisper are based on the Xer´sai Caller card from the game Legends of Runeterra
* Grounder are based on the Xerxa´reth, the Undertitan card from the game Legends of Runeterra
* Bulldozer are based on the Xer´sai Dunebreaker card from tha game Legends of Runeterra