Calxidolobrae

The generic term gargoyle refers to the other race known as Calxidolobrae (Lime statue cliff dweller), a subspecies of troll.

## Sunlight

The sun isn't lethal to gargoyles like it is to some troll species, they can even derive nourishment from it. When they turn into statues to sleep during the day, they grow a thin sheet of bone over their bodies during the day and shed it at night when they awaken. Their stony features are the result of (relatively) supple bony excrescences that grow all over their body.

## Diet

They can absorb solar energy while they sleep, they would otherwise have to eat the equivalent of two cows a day. Feeding is challenging for gargoyles, as they can either stay in the sun during the day to absorb solar energy, where the exposure risks the gargoyle being injured or killed, or to feed at night when they are active.

## Behavior

Gargoyles normally live on cliffs, where they hunt at night by dropping themselves on animals such as goats and birds. Some have adapted to cities where they come to life at night to feed. The solution to both these problems was to adapt to cities, where predators are rare on rooftops. Their natural predators are calxiroptera, tooth faeries and other calxophages. When hunting they like to drop from a high place to crush unwary victims under their considerable weight. Gargoyle wings cannot permit flight as they are vestigial but they use them to glide, such as when they miss their target when plummeting towards them. Meeting their gaze is dangerous.

### Dead drop

As a warning against encroaching on a gargoyles territory, they tether previous victims (and sometimes a current interloper) to a tall area and drop it in front of intruders to scare them.

### Baiting

Gargoyles sometimes hide phosphorus guano right next to victims in order to bait others into helping for an explosive trap. They also put the guano near ledges to fling their victims off of them.

### Sabotage

Gargoyles are experts at disarming or rearming traps meant for them against their opponents.

### Playtime

Gargoyles sometimes single out a specific target in a group for "playtime", tormenting it by picking off its allies one by one, harassing it by making glass shatter and walls collapse around it, making it jump at shadows and any sound it hears. Eventually reducing it to a quivering, weeping mess on the verge of a quadruple heart attack. Eventually the gargoyle finally decides to drop down and put the victim out of its misery.

### Statues

Gargoyles tend to destroy statues, supposedly just because they don't like them or the person that made them.

## Biology

They lay eggs, who must be placed in the sun to mature. Adults protect the eggs during the day by forming a foreboding circle of statues around them that allows sunlight to reach the eggs.

### Water

Uses their ears to channel rain through the back of their heads and out their mouths, filtering out any food that passes through. The ability to shoot high-pressure water jets from the mouth is devastating if the gargoyle is in water, as it can fire a continuous stream. They can fire water continuously and modify the pressure of the stream, in the wild gargoyles use this method as a hunting weapon (specifically for birds).

### Guano

Gargoyles produce guano as a waste product. The guano detonates when the creature echolocates at a certain frequency.

## Magic

Via alchemy, one can be turned into a gargoyle and its victims into statues for one hour.

Bone talisman: Gargoyles can be revived thanks to a magic talisman. Gargoyles will try to re-awaken the rest of its kin with said talisman. Its called a bone talisman, because to them their excrescences are bone matter and not stone.

Stone Alchemy: Gargoyles are capable of working living rock to shape it by their will, to craft everyday items.

Flesh Alchemy: Another alchemical ritual can make them flesh, though this usefulness is limited to those that would wish to hunt during the day.

Colombomancy: Some gargoyles can summon swarms of pigeons or disappear as one, like certain vampires with bats.
Petrification healing: Using a softening needle (acupuncture method which also cures petrification) on gargoyles will kill them because they're made of stone.

## Species of Caxidolobrae

### Chernabogling

Titanic gargoyles that, due to their size, turn into the top of mountains during the day. They shield themselves from the sun with their gigantic wings during the day.

### Feral Gargoyles

Wild gargoyles can be found atop of cliffs and other sheer surfaces hunting prey and sleeping in caves. Their origins are disputed, some are thought to have evolved from cliff dwelling simians.

### City gargoyles

Gargoyles that have integrated into cities and fill a number of different jobs.

Demon hunter gargoyles: Hunt demonic entities by trapping them in stone. Slay their enemies with holy weaponry (specifically crossbows). Gargoyles are typically perched on temples and holy sites, and awaken to fight demons within their city.

Waterguard: Gargoyles entrusted with managing rainfall and water related infrastructures. Being rainspouts, whenever it rains they must return to their original location. Waterguards live mostly on rooftops and feed on pigeons, and are named after where they're located.

Other jobs for gargoyles include being used as watchers and manning rooftop communication systems.