u/MrDog__

Man I really beat the entire Path of Pain just to watch these two doofuses stare at eachother for 5 seconds.

Jokes aside, it's a really touching moment, and a key part of the lore. so I wanted to make some art to show my appreciation. Also, I've included some progress screenies if you happen to like seeing the my artmaking process.

The Assimilator is a sentient nervous system tasked with hunting down pure creatures and assimilating them into the Crimson hivemind. They do this by grabbing their victim and gruesomely wriggling their nerve-like fingers into every orifice they can, hyjacking the victim's nervous system with electrical impulses, essentially rewiring the victim's mind to integrate it into the Crimson.

Also they use ichor as lube. Sorry.

…Also holy shit why did y’all like the previous post so much???

The Umbraphage is an early-hardmode corruption boss that clumsily wanders the world in search of purity to spread corruption into. It is purely animalistic and barely sentient, closer to a bio-weapon than an actual creature. It has enough of a mind however to know its singular purpose of spreading disease and decay beyond its home.

Hopefully one day I'll learn how to code so that I can make a Terraria mod out of this, buuuut I wouldn't count on it for now :P

EDIT: Turns out the name doesn’t make sense (Umbra-phage meaning Shadow-eater in Latin/Greek) so I’m gonna make it make sense by adding to the lore:

The Umbraphage siphons energy from the corruption and stores it in its crystal capsule, then releasing it into pure ground to spread decay elsewhere.

Basically it eats corruption juices and shits it out elsewhere :/