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Description
I don't post many weird sketches here, so HERE WE GO. Comes with a Large Wall of Text, aren't you lucky? (help I'm sorry.)

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So even before I made this account, I had these doodles sitting about, and basically just filled a couple in to make clearer silhouettes because why not?

But these are a weird little species I'm thinking of doing more with some day than simply allow to float around in my head.

Xsendrils is the tentative name (s. Xsendril), but I might change it eventually.

What Are They?
These beings are semi-amorphous entities, typically fragmented off of the essence and energy of a particular 'concept', 'idea', or 'element'. (Actually, in my headcanon, they're fragmented off the being that manifested as an avatar from said concepts, ideas, or elements, but that's getting into a whole other mess of weird, eldritch entities.) Xsendrils have their own personality, but they are tied to the energy of their concept directly, and might appear from the eldritch void if there is a strong calling or concentration of it in any one place. ... Say, if there were a realm where magic was plausible by calling forth enough concentrated power, well. If you heck it up, you might get one of these things appearing instead. Oops. Summoning ritual gone wrong, here, have a weird tentacled creature. It's fine.

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Temperament and Meaning
Their temperament depends largely on the energy they're tied to, but even then, there's a lot of variance. They tend to like gathering around (or sometimes stealing, let's be real) things that have concentrated energy of their respective preference, but if 'called forth', it's often because someone got close to getting Something's Attention They Might Not Have Been After. These are almost like 'a warning' in that case. Be careful, this might not end as you intended . . . If said someone keeps on their path? ... Well, they might have bigger problems than just a few eldritch beings crawling up their legs to absorb (or e x p a n d ) the part of them that called them in the first place.

Xsendril can act as 'eyes' for that concept, and nearly always try to perpetuate it further somehow. Though if there is a distinct lack of it, it's a toss up whether they will try to cause it, or just vanish into the weird void they came from because they don't like this, this isn't their home, this isn't their wife, it feels bad.

Leggy Bois
Most of them have a large number of 'limbs' in various forms; tentacles or tendrils are often the case due to their amorphous nature, but sometimes it can be legs, fins, wings, fingers, weird limbs that don't have a word to describe them, etc. Ultimately, these limbs can be formed into different shapes for different purposes. For instance, here, 4 of the tentacles formed into legs. It's possible to have all the tentacles form into legs. Or flatten into fins. or ... try to look like fingers. Some things are harder than others to form, depending on the being, but they're pretty versatile creatures.

What They Do
The 'holes' in them are there for a number of reasons (a lot of strange reasons), and they have abilities of teleportation, telekinesis (to a degree depending on their concept), and telepathy with varying degrees of success (also tied to their concept). The variance often depends on how much of their concept / energy from that concept is around, and how close whatever they're trying to communicate with is tied to it. For instance, a Water Xsendril and a Fire Xsendril conversing is likely gonna be strange for everyone, misunderstanding likely abounds. But a Xsendril of the Unknown and a confused, knowledge hungry, crazy cultist might "understand" each other pretty well. It's a weird time.

They All Have ...
As a rule, Xsendrils always have too heckin many limbs, an odd mask-like face, holes, and weird head tentacles. Usually, they also have a little mote of energy floating in their being somewhere too.

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And that's all I'm gonna ramble for now.

These guys are mine, so is this one in particular, please don't make your own. Yet.

Description
I don't post many weird sketches here, so HERE WE GO. Comes with a Large Wall of Text, aren't you lucky? (help I'm sorry.)

--

So even before I made this account, I had these doodles sitting about, and basically just filled a couple in to make clearer silhouettes because why not?

But these are a weird little species I'm thinking of doing more with some day than simply allow to float around in my head.

Xsendrils is the tentative name (s. Xsendril), but I might change it eventually.

What Are They?
These beings are semi-amorphous entities, typically fragmented off of the essence and energy of a particular 'concept', 'idea', or 'element'. (Actually, in my headcanon, they're fragmented off the being that manifested as an avatar from said concepts, ideas, or elements, but that's getting into a whole other mess of weird, eldritch entities.) Xsendrils have their own personality, but they are tied to the energy of their concept directly, and might appear from the eldritch void if there is a strong calling or concentration of it in any one place. ... Say, if there were a realm where magic was plausible by calling forth enough concentrated power, well. If you heck it up, you might get one of these things appearing instead. Oops. Summoning ritual gone wrong, here, have a weird tentacled creature. It's fine.

--
Temperament and Meaning
Their temperament depends largely on the energy they're tied to, but even then, there's a lot of variance. They tend to like gathering around (or sometimes stealing, let's be real) things that have concentrated energy of their respective preference, but if 'called forth', it's often because someone got close to getting Something's Attention They Might Not Have Been After. These are almost like 'a warning' in that case. Be careful, this might not end as you intended . . . If said someone keeps on their path? ... Well, they might have bigger problems than just a few eldritch beings crawling up their legs to absorb (or e x p a n d ) the part of them that called them in the first place.

Xsendril can act as 'eyes' for that concept, and nearly always try to perpetuate it further somehow. Though if there is a distinct lack of it, it's a toss up whether they will try to cause it, or just vanish into the weird void they came from because they don't like this, this isn't their home, this isn't their wife, it feels bad.

Leggy Bois
Most of them have a large number of 'limbs' in various forms; tentacles or tendrils are often the case due to their amorphous nature, but sometimes it can be legs, fins, wings, fingers, weird limbs that don't have a word to describe them, etc. Ultimately, these limbs can be formed into different shapes for different purposes. For instance, here, 4 of the tentacles formed into legs. It's possible to have all the tentacles form into legs. Or flatten into fins. or ... try to look like fingers. Some things are harder than others to form, depending on the being, but they're pretty versatile creatures.

What They Do
The 'holes' in them are there for a number of reasons (a lot of strange reasons), and they have abilities of teleportation, telekinesis (to a degree depending on their concept), and telepathy with varying degrees of success (also tied to their concept). The variance often depends on how much of their concept / energy from that concept is around, and how close whatever they're trying to communicate with is tied to it. For instance, a Water Xsendril and a Fire Xsendril conversing is likely gonna be strange for everyone, misunderstanding likely abounds. But a Xsendril of the Unknown and a confused, knowledge hungry, crazy cultist might "understand" each other pretty well. It's a weird time.

They All Have ...
As a rule, Xsendrils always have too heckin many limbs, an odd mask-like face, holes, and weird head tentacles. Usually, they also have a little mote of energy floating in their being somewhere too.

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And that's all I'm gonna ramble for now.

These guys are mine, so is this one in particular, please don't make your own. Yet.