Floater

Floaters fly via hydrogen filled gas bladders located on their underside. By expelling small bursts of gas, the creatures are able to propel themselves about, using their bodies and tentacles for navigation. Being herbivores, floaters do not usually engage in combat with other creatures, unless startled or threatened. When they do engage in combat, floaters are capable opponents. A floater can attack using its tentacles, each injecting the victim with a paralytic venom that can paralyze them. Because of their hydrogen gas bladders, floaters are especially susceptible to flame attacks which may cause them to explode. Floaters also have psionic abilities that can be used be used to protect itself, camouflage into its surroundings or drain the life energies from its victim.

Floaters make their homes on the mudflats located at the edges of the Sea of Silt. They often make nests from dead bushes and trees, but occasionally form nests within live trees as well. A nest commonly contains from three to five floaters, with some larger nests having up to eight members. These creatures group in nests for protective purposes, as they are often attacked by razorwings. Floaters bear their young one at a time. For a period of six months after a birth, the mother will leave the nest for only brief periods of time, and then only to find food for its young. By the time a young floater reaches six months of age it will be on its own, seeking others to nest with. Floaters survive largely on the ferns and roots that grow in the wetter areas of the mudflats. When a mother gathers food for its young, it will often take leaves and roots of nearby plants, but will occasionally gather berries and seeds from the few fruit-bearing plants that grow on the mudflats. Floaters also occasionally eat esperweed, boosting their existing psionic powers. Since the effects of esperweed have such a short duration, it is very rare to encounter a floater while its psionic abilities are boosted.

Floaters are the favorite prey of razorwings, who make their home beneath the Sea of Silt. Floaters boast no usable by products, though many researchers have tried to make use of the gas-producing glands of this creature as a source of flammable gas. None have had success.