Klaborok

The Klaborok is a mollusc-like desert-dwelling organism.

Anatomy
The Klaborok is a large desert-dwelling predatory bivalve molluscoid that lives underground and surfaces to catch its prey, bursting forth when it senses movement above its patch of sand. A party of Trebhum can use a Klaborok to get rid of another predator, but a Klaborok can just as well swallow a party of Trebhum in a single gulp. It is likely that the Klaborok was initially an ocean-dwelling animal that adapted when the waters receded. Trebhum legends sometimes feature magical Klaborok pearls that the heroes must earn.

Behaviour
The Klaborok is a complicated beast. When it detects you, it shuffles toward your position as a little mound of sand. Then, an eye stalk comes up from that mound and looks at your position. It then retreats back to the sand. This is the crucial time you have to run away from that position, because when the mound of sand reaches it, a gargantuan sized mollusc will snap anything in that position.

Smart Trebhum can kite other predators into the jaws of the Klaborok, and though this is hard to do, the Klaborok is so large it can kill almost any animal, even apex predators like the Tonglegrop and flying ones like an Onkifurt. If you fire food in the position the Klaborok bites, it will spit out a Klaborok Pearl which can be cracked for a Microbiotal Colony, giving you the Plated Body mutation when eaten, increasing your health.