#blemmye

[morganmackerel]

Blemmye lady I drew on the train back from work!

[theantiazdarcho]

Blemmye Field Studies

Large, fossorial and intelligent orthopterans found in temperate regions globally. They construct communal nests due to their shy and reclusive, not fond of humans or cyncocephali.

[rfscaveart]

Blemmye Various species of mythical headless men were rumoured, in antiquity and later, to inhabit remote parts of the world. They are variously known as akephaloi (Greek ἀκέφαλοι 'headless ones') or Blemmyes (Latin: Blemmyae; Greek: βλέμμυες) and described as lacking a head, with their facial features on their chest. These were at first described as inhabitants of ancient Libya or the Nile system. Later traditions confined their habitat to a particular island in the Brisone River, or shifted it to India.

Blemmyes are said to occur in two types: with eyes on the chest or with the eyes on the shoulders.

[siryl]

Alexander the Great encounters a headless tribe in this thirteenth century manuscript. Information at source.

[briefbestiary]

Blemmyae, the headless folk. They're pretty much just normal people outside of the fact that their faces are on the front of their torsos.

[demongirl99]

Type: Akephaloi

Species: Nihigilim/No Head (Latin+Beja)

Other Names: Headless Man, Man-Eater, Brainless Man

Location: Akephaloi are normally found in North Africa, specifically in Ethiopia and Nubia, but can be found in small pockets across the world

Coloration: Golden yellow skin, dirt brown fur, oil black eyes

Size: 6'0" to 12'0" feet (adult), 3'0" to 5'0" feet (young)

Weight: 250 pounds to 1 ton (adult), 30 to 120 (young)

Language: Nihigilim Tongue

Personality: Violent, heartless, and thoughtless. They are mindless brutes that terrorize anyone living near their nests, basic animal levels of intelligence; controlling them is difficult than a normal animal even given human meat it will not ease its violent nature

Abilities: Other than their natural inhuman strength and agility Akephalois have a thankfully limited range of abilities for monsters but are no less dangerous:

Smell of Death: No matter where they go a Akephaloi always smell like a hundred rotting corpses, this is due to how it reproduces as such being near a Akephaloi causes nausea to anyone 10 feet of it

Tunnel Earth: These beasts have large sharp claws that allows them to dig deep into the earth, cutting into stone and dirt with ease. They use their claws to create underground nests for them to live and to scourge for food, from both underground and on the surface, undisturbed

Killing Jaws: The jaws of Akephalois have thick powerful muscles and large shark-like teeth, allowing them to tear into stone as easy as flesh and tear it to bits

Info:

Akephalois are terrifying monsters that have faces on their chest with a taste for human flesh, the very nature of these monsters has terrified and fascinated occultists, monstrumologists, and the like for centuries. Some even going out of their way to capture Akephalois and moving them to secluded locations across the world in order to study them better, ll of which ending badly for anyone living near them and for the abductor. The Mystery Kids unfortunately encountered these beasts when graves from the Gravity Falls Cemetery were found defiled, at first by the undead but was later discovered to be a growing nest of Akephalois living underneath the cemetery after being brought over by a very newly dead wannabe monstrumologist in order to study how they would adapt to a colder climate.

P.S. A monstrumologist as well as the reference of Akephalois living in a cemetery are taken from this young adult novel called

The Monstrumologist

Akephaloi design (c) me

[ninetimesbluedemo]

Mothman and Chestman are husbands and they’re at the bank to get a mortgage

[rupertbbare]

Blemmyes by Michael Kutsche