Haiten

Haiten is an elongated magma creature that is low to the ground. It has strong limbs and a broad rounded head. Though its legs are short, its large five-toed paws with crampon-like claws made of fire and lava and rock, as well as plantigrade posture enable it to climb up cave walls and to dig through solid rock in search of ore.

They are genderless creatures as they do not reproduce as other animals would.

Haitens don't actually reproduce themselves. Actually it is thought that they emerge from lava pools and magma chambers deep beneath volcanoes. Then once they have consumed enough ore, they will divide, like cells dividing.

Haiten Evo's into Okaran, once it has consumed enough metal ore to expand its size and grow.

Haiten live in caves and magma chambers beneath active volcanoes, such as Mount Hellfire. They emerge from lava pools and magma chambers deep beneath such volcanoes and will roam around and dig through the cavern walls with their magma claws to find and consume metal ore.

They feed on and consume ores of various metals that it digs out of the walls of the caves in which it lives. They seem to love iron ore or nickel ore, but almost any ore will do. The only one that they will avoid for some reason is Morichalcum. If any of this ore is present, it will actively try to avoid that area as much as possible, as though it is a plague to them.

Haiten are driven to do one thing: to consume as much metal ore as they can to divide and replicate. Once they have consumed all of the ore in one area, they will find somewhere else to go. In this way, it has long been thought that Haitens actually cause volcanic activity. There has never been any evidence to prove this.

They are normally docile creatures and focused simply on consuming ore. They will not attack unless they feel threatened or backed into a corner. If you were to walk into a cavern chamber where these creatures are feeding, they will simply ignore your presence and act as though you are not even there. However if you were to attack them they would ferociously fight back with their magma claws which would not only do significant damage, it would also cauterize the wounds at the same time.

They move as though apart of a single colony along with any other Haitens that emerged from the same lava pool, however they also act as solitary creatures.

Some mining operations around the world have thought about using Haitens and Okaran to mine the ore for them. However various activist groups have thus far prevented them from even attempting this.

They have a broad and rounded head of lava and magma with small black pebble like eyes and what look like short rounded ears atop of its head. Its jaws are full of large blunt fangs made of dripping lava for grinding and melting the metal ore.

They are mostly found in cave systems around active volcanoes. At this point in time, that is only Mount Hellfire, as the only active volcano known right now.

They are driven by a singular desire to consume as much metal ore as possible and to divide and replicate and grow. As such they do not really show much intelligence beyond that.

They are able to sense vibrations and to detect the presence of metal ore in the caverns where they live.