Purple Worm Race
Overview[edit]
The purple worm is akin to an enormous and bizarre earthworm.
As its name implied, the purple worm is deep purple in color, with a pale yellow underbelly. Separating its yellow part from its purple part are hard crests going down its sides. It is well-armored and segmented. One end of the purple worm terminates in a large, toothed mouth, with slit-like eyes set above the mouth and dragon's ear-like limbs at the sides of the "head". While many that encounter the purple worm worried about falling into the worm%u2019s mouth, they commonly forget about the creature%u2019s tail, which is capped by a poisonous paralytic stinger. The purple worm is often depicted as bursting out of the ground and arching itself in a distinctive pose. Purple worms are not able to speak.
Purple worms spend their time burrowing through the underground and seek to consume any organic matter they find. Their favored and most feared method of attack is swallowing their prey whole. Many groups of adventures have succumb to such a fate, disappearing down a Purple Worm's gullet one after the other. Purple worms can also attack with their tail stinger, and by grabbing and grappling with prey.
