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Scolopendra's Nine-Tier Attack
Nine-Tier Attack
The catastrophe transforms most female ursines into ageless, infertile dinosaurs immediately after Tina's recital is stopped.
Story so far
The attack kills most inhabitants and turns the world upside down. Among the ursines, most surviving women become reptilian creatures while men remain bears; only a small number of women, including Prudence's grandmother, remain unchanged.
The transformed women cannot age or reproduce. Mothers such as Kiwi retain more reason, while child Tina becomes uniquely unstable and violent. The religious survivors interpret transformation as divine punishment for sin.
Role
The attack supplies the biological origin of the floor's female dinosaurs and locks Tina into an ageless childhood trauma.
Relationships
Big Tina — It transforms her from an eight-year-old ursine into an allosaurus.
Kiwi — It transforms her and the other mothers into dinosaurs.
Prudence — Her family preserves a pious interpretation of the survivors.
Sources — 4 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 10
- Cataclysm that wiped out most races of the floor and reshaped the survivors' societies.
Chapter 16
- Nine layered spells released at once in a rolling cloud — transfiguration, spores, rage — that gutted the region.
Chapter 26
- A past catastrophe that killed most naiads and deepened their dependence on the high elves.
Chapter 44
- The catastrophe transforms most female ursines into ageless, infertile dinosaurs immediately after Tina's recital is stopped.