Editing Fleshmongler (section)

==Abilities==
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They have a near unparalleled power to reconfigure flesh, either taking it away, adding to it or mixing it with something else.<ref name=":0">They didn’t eat, really, except to store ingredients for later regurgitation and use. They just reconfigured flesh, took flesh away, added it, mixed it, or dismantled living things and then used them as currency to make their way in the middledeep Warrens.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/29 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.2]]</ref> They have a preference for diseased or unusual flesh,<ref>They liked diseased and unusual flesh- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/29 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.2]]</ref> possible examples could be the [[Wikipedia:Mulberry molar|Mulberry molars]] that are a marker of congenital syphilis, various types of placentas, or rare and interesting cancers.

Across the great lexicon of magical beings there are none that can match their mastery of manipulating flesh.<ref> A [[Fae]] schemes like an [[ogre]] is strong, and a fleshmongler manipulates flesh. He’s an expert.” - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YXzbO86597STHrWdX7K_kSIC3lBZuzYkrFyN1e8sp70 Excerpt] from [[Pate]]</ref>

They aren't restricted by limitations of the flesh such as fatigue,<ref>They were faster than her and they didn’t get tired. The big one was slowest- but he was still about her speed.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/29/ Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.2]]</ref> or the need to eat.<ref name=":0" />

They're able to mutilate small animals and combine them with other creatures, infusing them with it's [[power]] to animate them.<ref>The fleshmongler stopped running, digging fingers into the squirrel and tearing it apart.<br>[...]<br>The flying object was small enough in the gloom that Avery couldn’t see it clearly until its second fly-by pass.<br><br>It was a mangled squirrel. And a mangled bird. Flesh mashed together with flesh, bones broken and sticking out, a tattered, strangled bit of tail streaking the back, ulcerous, tumorous. The wings had been left mostly intact, letting it fly awkwardly, hampered by its less aerodynamic shape.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/29 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.2]]</ref> This power allows the creature to stretch the flesh of others.<ref>They weren’t as powerful as the fleshmonglers that had made them, but some energy had been invested in them, as a way to keep the mangled, broken bits in their bodies working. As a ‘benefit’, if they could get claws into Avery, her skin wouldn’t scratch. It would stretch. Which made them pretty freaking scary.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/29 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.2]]</ref>