Heavy Cloud [Creature]
Heavy Cloud
Fog is bad enough for a traveler. One struggles to navigate anywhere until it lifts, and many simply settle down until it passes for fear of getting lost. To make matters worse, fog is the breeding grounds for heavy clouds. A heavy cloud desires to grow and does so by stealing the breath from living creatures. Thankfully it moves as slow as it grows; if one can see the tendrils of a heavy cloud in the distance, one can easily avoid it. It traverses the landscape like a giant, amorphous spider crawling along the ground on multi-tendril legs.
The problem is they are born in fog and look just like it. Out of the fog comes a gray tendril of vapor, it encapsulates a head like a helmet, and the breath is sucked out of the victim. Only by clogging ones nose and mouth can this be stopped, which is obviously a problem in and of itself for the breathing victim. Some claim salting one’s head staves off a heavy cloud; others claim dirt works instead of salt; still others claim freshly killed game does the trick.