The Crab is a single being, of no species or lineage, said to be able to “eat an army”. It is recorded as a god of time who controls a repeating mechanism, as a crystal monster on a lighthouse, and as a giant mount carrying a palanquin.
| Type | Entity |
| Immunity | Electricity |
| Spanish entry | El Cangrejo |
Forms
The three appearances are never confirmed to be one body:
- The god: “a god of time who struggles with his portfolio”, living “in a distant parallel universe”, beyond ordinary reach.
- The monster: the crystal crab, set in legend on top of the lighthouse. It devours whole formations, not individuals: “that is how armies were lost”.
- The mount: “a huge digital crab with a palanquin on top”, a beast of burden that carries rather than attacks.
The lighthouse
Its records belong to Alexandria in 1389, but lighthouse and city are linked by the context of the records, not by explicit statement.
The repeating mechanism
As a god, it controls “a mechanism that repeats all the time”: the time cycle is its domain, and escaping it is what is at stake against it. It crosses worlds and timelines to seek those it pursues, whatever hope the companions had that “in this world the crab won’t come looking for us”. A crab struck again in 1889 (“a crab hit you”), though it is not certified to be the crystal one.
Combat
It “wiped out” a whole company at once. It wields destructive magic and is immune to electricity. No one owns, keeps or summons it: it is what comes looking.
Open questions
- Whether the god, the crystal monster and the mount are one entity or three sharing a name.
- Which lighthouse, in which city; Alexandria is context, not certainty.
- What the repeating mechanism is and how the Crab controls it.
- Who rides the palanquin, and whom the mount obeys.
- The divine form’s color, size and sound, and whether it has a body.
- How it can be harmed; no wound to it has ever been noted.