Whirlwind of tooth and claw,
Evolved through time without a flaw,
it rises through the Planet's crust
Grinding earth and bone to dust.
The Vigilator
Splinter - Draykh-Nahka
Set - Untamed
Class - Legendary Multi-Striker
Size - Vigilators’ full sizes are entirely unknown, since they are always mostly concealed by sand. In the Mount Mox Tournaments, they bring sand with them when summoned the same way that a Sea Monster brings water. Everyone knows they are huge, but no one has any idea how deep they go beneath the surface, nor that they their roots connect with the core of the Planet.
Lifespan - For the last several hundred years, the Vigilator has always kept far beneath the sand’s surface, except for when easy prey wanders by. Recently however, with the discoveries of the many and varied Untamed Prophecies, the Vigilators have become restless. They have towered out of the sand on many recent occasions, sometimes snatching birds from the sky with their mouth-heads. They have even been spotted squirming through the Centrum Forest, where apparently they have also learned how to burrow up through the ground. Vigilators have been killed before, but before the body can be recovered, it is always resorbed into the Planet. For this reason, biological scholars believe that the Vigilator is actually a single beast, too huge to imagine that merely sometimes shows us the tips of some of its fingers.
Habitat - When it is spotted above ground, the Vigilator lives mainly in the sands of Draykh-Nahka, but many people throughout the SPLINTERLANDS are starting to wonder if it is truly limited to these grounds. The truth is that the monster rests hundreds of miles below the surface, in a place called the Strite, and when it is seen by the Splinterlands it has come a long way to get there. Perhaps the sand is just the softest, easiest place for the Vigilator to push through and explore the surface of the Planet. Perhaps it is only a matter of time before Vigilator arms are spotted near your home.
Weapon - The Vigilator is the most fearsome natural predator in the Splinterlands. It has so many forms of attack that they cannot all be defined or named. The core, or trunk of the Vigilator is where it keeps its main mouth, from which spike projectiles are released, seemingly as often as the beast likes. These are called teeth, even though the Vigilator hardly ever chews with them. Additional mouths are situated at the ends of long, ropelike necks that resemble the vines of some jungle plant. Those vine mouths can snatch and grab with lightning speed, and each of them seems to make its own decisions. Sometimes, when the Vigilator deems it necessary, it also reveals a frighteningly massive stinger that looks like that of a scorpion. Do not stand off against a Vigilator unless you have at least ten arms and a minimum of eight strong swords.
Diet - The Vigilator eats what it can find, but it especially enjoys the meat of Kobolds, who it devours especially loudly. This is why in the Inward Beaches between the Oasis and the Sands, there are certain areas that are designated as Kobold Free Zones.. Kobolds are not allowed in these places, but it is for their own safety, for the Vigilator can smell a Kobold a mile through the ground.
Allies - Wild Lightning Dragons have often been seen lounging around with the Vigilator as if they have no fear of being eaten. Truly, the Vigilator must hold some old favor for these majestic and scaled creatures of the sky, for it is not in the habit of buddying up to anyone.
Enemies - Anyone who disturbs the ground is an enemy of the Vigilator. In most of the Splinters, the ground is thick with bedrock, which cushions the racket and clamour of the surface-dwellers, so the Vigilator has stayed away. But in the largest quarries of the Splinterlands, the holes are getting deeper and the bosses are getting greedier. Soon, in the Khymian Quarry of Korlax, for example, they will awaken the rage of the underbeast. They know not how close they have become to disturbing part of its lair.
Pastimes - Far beneath the surface of the Planet, the Vigilator carries on a life entirely of its own. It only visits the realm known as the Splinterlands out of curiosity, exploration, and occasionally the protection of its home from the vermin that live on the surface.
The True Story of Splinterlands
Once upon a time your game purchase meant something. You could go to the store and purchase a game, after which you would simply own that game. You could play as often as you'd like, because it was your game. As the game companies were one by one swallowed up by larger and larger game companies, a terrible thing happened to the gaming world. While the games themselves were always making improvements, the players were always throwing more and more of their hard-earned money into a corporate black hole from which they reaped no rewards.
How did the corporations convince the players to pay this money? Loot. They showered the players with in-game riches designed to create a sense of accomplishment, but with no real value. Not only are these in-game "assets" entirely subject to the whims of corporate overlords who rarely (if ever) have the player's interests at heart, but they never really belong to the player at all. They belong exclusively to the game for which they were created. If a player wants to quit playing the game, they must also abandon their in-game treasures.
Blockchains are giving power and ownership back to the players, and it's about time. In this incredible and rapidly expanding world of technology it seems like such an outdated argument to be making, but the players (not the company) should own their gaming rewards. Blockchain, non-fungible tokens and games like Splinterlands are now making that possible.
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