Canker

Brimming with unknown energy, the Canker is a walking Craydic reactor – the extraterrestrial element causing shambler mutations is extremely highly concentrated inside a Canker’s body, visualized by the around 3-7 yellow-ish cysts on the Canker’s upper body. As such, the Canker steadily regenerates his body after sustaining wounds, closing and mending bullet holes alongside regrowing lost limbs and tendrils in a matter of minutes depending on the wound’s severity – sustaining further wounds back to back will disrupt regeneration. A reactor this active requires a lot of organic fuel: a Canker has a near bottomless appetite and will devour anything living put in front of it no questions asked – as such, a freely roaming Canker will pose a significant danger to any wildlife space, reducing the area’s animal population to zero within weeks. Cankers don’t massively depend on their rather stubby arms and short claws, but will skillfully use their numerous tendrils to rope in their prey and strike their opponents.