"Perhaps one of the most unsettling creatures I've ever laid eyes upon, native to the 'soul sand' valleys and rumoured to eat the souls of unfortunate wanderers who perish. However, as is often the case with rumours, there is a much more rational explanation for this actually quite harmless animal."

"The main entity in the middle is actually a worm like creature that feeds upon the various mosses and mushrooms it finds using it's large toothed mouth, sometimes growing patches of such moss on itself as I have illustrated. The pulsating, writhing mass of screaming faces around the lower and middle section is, not the captured souls of passed wanderers, but actually it's offspring, which stick around the parent until large enough to fend for themselves. The 'soul sand' they live in is actually formed by generations of molts from these creatures as they grow, over time compressing down and retaining the horrifying facial expressions of the young."

"They seem very curious about dropped items, many of which fall from a dead entity. Perhaps the villagers thought they were capturing souls of the deceased, when in actuality they were just investigating something new."

-Rez