The common clacker (Caecognathos Vulgaris) also known as common blindjaw, is a medium-sized caecognathae native to the outer capital-level cavern systems, with populations steadily increasing beyond waystation 8. They are closely related to the Furred Clacker (Caecognathos Pilosus) and the Tropical Clacker (Caecognathos Novomundensis).
As an opportunistic omnivore, the common clackers diet consists of fungi, plants and small animals such as slugs, reptiles, insects and fish but are also known to engage in predatory behaviour when hunting in groups. As a social animal they usually form small packs of four to eight individuals, no clear hierarchy between pack-members has been observed.
Common Clackers are a naturally curious species while also being extremely light-sensitive and photophobic, it is common to see clackers watch waypoints and people from afar. Despite having a bad reputation for attacking travellers, very few of such claims were ever able to be confirmed. In fact, common clackers are known to permit people passage through their frequently shifting territories without exhibiting defensive behaviours – an unusual trait given their typically protective nature.
According to the ferrite tenets, common clackers are sinners who blasphemed against the melted god during the primordial ages for which they were cursed with quadrupedalism, blindness, deformed maws and a fear of light:
“They were cast aside, their forms reforged into vessels more fitting. They would not bow, and Io, He made them creep upon the ground. They would not see, so He left them to dwell in darkness. They would twist the law, so He twisted their jaws. They would deny His work, so He denied them His fruits and made them eat dirt”. – Ferrite Tenets: Antiquorum Dierum
Contemporary scientists have found little evidence for the involvement of a creator-deity in the birth of the species. According to the Primal Cave Theory, the ancestor-species of all clackers originated, like all species, from a massive bright cave whose location has been lost over time and/or collapsed eons ago. Said ancestor-species is speculated to have had functioning eyes, an organ which proved to be useless in darkness and therefore regressed over generations.
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