Hunting the Chasmfiend
In the last days I thought a lot about chasmfiends. Since I was never truly satisfied with their design in the official books illustrations, I always wanted to do a little redesigning of my own. So I wrecked my brains about feeding habits, weight distribution, hunting behavior and looked at praying mantises, mantis shrimp and crayfish.
How do they hunt? They are not ambush hunters, and chulls don't run very fast. They are impossibly big and would need so much food just do support fast and excessive movement. Apart from their sprenbond, do they feed on stormlight? They are scavengers, too, at least in the plains, so how do they find their prey? Smell? Touch? Sight?
So I specialized their first two pairs of claws for climbing, finding food and crushing shell. Which also means they don't really walk on them.
What do you imagine when you think of chasmfiends?
And, yeah Dalinar is awesome. But who am I telling that...
Elhokar is a bit of an idiot, but I must say he has grown on me.