Basaltusk
Cinder Clinic · Kilnward
Basaltusk are huge tunnel-dwelling fenborn with continuously growing mineralized tusks.
What it is
Basaltusk are huge tunnel-dwelling fenborn with continuously growing mineralized tusks. They use the tusks to pry fractured basalt apart, enlarging passages to reach mineral deposits and cool sleeping chambers.
What Keepers notice
Basaltusk excavation opens migration routes later used by many smaller cave species. Quarry crews sometimes destroy a tunnel as a nuisance only to discover it had been the sole cool passage connecting two vent systems.
How this species enters Keeper life
Quarry-conflict relocation, tunnel-collapse rescue, Cinder Clinic treatment, and later cavern stewardship.
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