The whole āhow the hell does this predatory creature get enough sustenanceā thing that plagues fantasy and sci-fi occasionally gets so absurd it loops around into being funny, like the scene in Star Wars when the Millenium Falcon is flying through an asteroid field and gets swallowed by a worm.
I could complain about that, but I could also conclude that the supply of reckless space pilots flying into asteroid fields has been consistent enough for the past few million years for animals to evolve to prey upon them.
Who knows. Maybe there are enough adventuring parties roaming about the Forest of Doom to increase the available biomass at their trophic level in order to sustain tertiary consumers like giant spiderwolves...
āYouāre going into the Catacombs? No one survives the Catacombs! Many an adventurer has tried!ā
āUh, how many have tried?ā
āEnough to form an entire ecological niche for species specialized to prey upon them!ā
āOh. That, uhh, that is a lot.ā
āRight? Itās pretty fascinating actually. Iām writing my thesis on it right now.ā

















