The Reaper
While the streets of Grand Cluster are hardly ever clean, there's a puzzling lack of body parts, corpses, and oil spilt on the street. The sick and dying often go missing without a trace, as well.
There are legends that say that some creature roams the streets while no one watches, consuming the bodies of the dead and forgotten.
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The Reaper is a creature discovered by Cuda and improved on by Eli to help Cuda in scouting candidates for live experiments. It's one of the last living serpents on the planet, a cousin to the two protecting the village in their slumber. It's much smaller and sleeker than the others.
The player faces down the reaper in Chapter 4: The Strange One while lost in the Core Dump. Attacking the reaper upsets Cuda, who sees it like a well trained pet.
It turns out that the Reaper in fact does not eat robots whole, but it does gather them, and consumes the Life Cores of dead robots. The Core Dump is its nest.
After Cuda returns with the player and sets up shop in the once abandoned right-hand init tower of the village, he lets the venturing clan use it as a safety measure to scout for orphans and injured venturers.
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