Does anyone know any backstory of Snarbolaxes other than they live in the woods and kill knights?
•There are more than just one
•They eat/kill knights (possibly to defend territory
Here are some questions -
•Was this Snarbolax a bigger or smaller Snarbolax
•Are they intelligent?
•How come we haven't seen more?
•Where do they come from
•Do Snarbolaxes control smaller beasts?
If you post more questions/answers they will be used in this list
The beast bells were placed by other knights that went through before us. If I remember correctly it was actually Alpha Squad who placed them... I think... But I just know it was placed by other knights.
Yeah, I think I heard somewhere that Rulen was the one who had constructed, tested and set up the beast bells. Naturally. He's the Alpha Squad Technician.
Snarbolax, we dont know if there are more, missions only refer to one (shadow lair is swarm recreating things, those two arent really the same)
We dont know how it became like that
we dont know if its a mega alpha or if its separate from pack stuff
rulen planted the beast bells
Likely it came to cradle with beasts, when their planet was drawn in while it was being created (no confirmation)
I think there could be more Snarbolax, though maybe the Snarbolax is a "rare" species that must have been extinct a long time ago and so far only one has lived through so many years. I have a feeling also that the Snarbolax were not creatures shrouded in darkness, when the Snarbolax gets stunned by the bell, it tries to move away slowly as if it was afraid from wanting to die. This means that the Snarbolax species could of been a peaceful race till
"something" erased almost all the Snarbolax but one, having the last Snarbolax be fierce at anyone who dares to enter its last and only sanctuary to be safe from the enemy. In the end the reason why Snarbolax would actually confront us is because it does not want its comrades, the wolvers which were its last family, to die like what it saw last time so many years ago.
The general assumption is that the Snarbolax is carnivorous. However, the proportions of the Snarbolax have always struck me as decidedly rodentlike. It scurries about and burrows through the ground like a vole. The phrase 'a cornered rat' seems particularly apt, no?
There seems to be little prey in the Wildwoods. Wolvers, at the least, seem uninterested in eating Chromalisk, and the remainder of things that move are various conglomerations of bone, wood, and/or metal. It seems as though something the size of the Snarbolax would be unable to hunt efficiently enough to support itself, much less to carry any young to term. By the modern understanding of biology, if the Snarbolax cannot produce offspring, then it fails as a living creature.
Two possibilities come to mind.
I recall reading some flavour text somewhere regarding the Rabid Snarbolaxes (Snarbolaxen?) which brought to mind the (long since disproven) concept of spontaneous generation. Similar to how (it was thought) fleas arose from dust and maggots from dead flesh, it is possible that Snarbolaxen are simply natural features of densely-canopied woodland, as much as are mimsy borogoves, flecktarn, and SKS rifles.
The other possibility is that the Snarbolax is, in fact, the prey creature of the Gloaming Wildwoods. From this perspective, the Wildwoods are plenty with grasses, sedges, seeds, and the like---easily enough to support a creature of such a size, in turn plausibly enough to support the Wolver population. In such a case, I surmise that within some generations, Wolvers will have adapted stronger jaws and teeth in order to penetrate the hide of a threatened Snarbolax, or else immunity to stun and some way to vibrate some part of their bodies at several megahertz.
This really helped me understand much more about the snarbolax/snarbolaxes. Hopefully but unlikely they will add more snarbolax stuff ;-;
Snarbolax Stuff
A foil
A shield
A bomb
A hat
A coat
A mane
The wiki states snarbolax has many things similar to the jabberwocky from a certain poem. If it was inspired by that, it could have backstory/physiology similar to the jabberwocky.
I always believed that there is only one Snarbolax,(Don't know about Shadow Lairs.) Kinda like how there is only one Vanaduke.
Is there more than one Snarby? Also, @Tsukuyomin
Isn't the Snarbolax a Wolver of sorts? Snarbolax gear's made from Wolver line, after all.
Yeeahh...no I don't think Snarby gets eaten by other Wolvers or anything like that. I'm guessing that it's the other way around; Wolvers eat plants or maybe bugs or something...Snarbolax probably goes after bigger things like Chromalisks.
It does make sense for them to eat Slimes; they are usually found together. And, for balance reasons, they just couldn't make Wolvers actually attack Slimes. And yeah, I know that Slime is supposedly bad for Knights, but Wolvers could have tougher stomachs.
Shadow Lair: Gloaming Wildwoods introduces two Snarbolax, although the fact that both are rabid probably means they're dead by now. Furthermore, we don't know if the original Snarbolax was one of the two rabid ones. In theory, there are either no Snarbolax in existence, or only a single confirmed-alive one.
The process to create a Snarbolax, however, is likely dependent upon supernatural forces akin to those that reanimate the dead. It is possible that the Snarbolax is an Alpha Wolver that has been possessed and somehow mutated through possession.
Another possibility is genetic alteration by Gremlin bio-engineers. It may have escaped containment and fled to a forested area while Cradle was being constructed.
The third possibility is that the Snarbolax is a mythical being originating from the Wolver home planet. Every world has its legendary beasts, after all, and the aforementioned fact that it is indeed a Jabberwocky subspecies further confirms its status as a cryptid.
I'll share what I know or assume.
Snarbolaxes are giant Beasts that have grown to enormous sizes through unknown means, and has subsequently become a powerful leader of wolvers. It resides in the gloaming wildwoods, a Haven for certain Beasts and creatures. Snarbolax stalks trespassers through its forest and attempts to ambush and stun them. Fallen travelers can be seen magically reanimated at zombies and they want to kill you.
But there was one fatal flaw with this setup. There were beast bells nailed to the ground, immovable. But this forest was perfect, so they dealt with it.
Oh I just made this up.