Creepers

Creepers are creatures long misunderstood due to time and miscommunication. As animals driven by their emotion they act on instinct, in ages past they did not explode as a first reaction. But after centuries of evolution this is what they have been brought to, precarious creatures driven by the pure unadulterated excitement of seeing another being, in a form similar to their maste r, rush forward in excitement. The feelings bubble over and overwhelm their system until ultimately combusting when close to their target. Their spirit is recycled and brought back into the growing vessel of a new creeper (much like their deity).

The earlier forms of Creepers did not do so, they were much more intelligent. The reason for their excitement however was because it was how they recognized their deity, creator, and parent (their sight having grown much more blurry due to them moving back into caves after the first incarnation of their deity passed). In a plant with few humanoids at the time, they recognized their deity by their form, they could differentiate between others when seen but the valley where they resided was rather isolated from other deities.

The first incarnation of their deity lived long in the valley with their Creepers, but they did not last. They were attacked by an unknown God whilst separated from their pack and left to bleed out. When found by the pack, they wept for their deity and collectively agreed to take their burdens from this life so I would not follow them to the next. The strongest mage of the pack cast a powerful spell that tied all Creepers to their deity irreversibly. A species cursed to carry their deities burdens with each incarnation, because they wished for them not to struggle in the next life.

This weighed down on the species with each incarnation, no incarnations of the deity had an easy death since losing that life was not something they wished for. Magic and grief is a powerful thing, it whittled down Creepers and made them so much more primitive. Intelligent to simple beasts they went.

Creepers are loyal creatures, even if their sight fails them, they will follow their master to the end of the earth.

The Friendly Creeper Petition
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Trivia

 * Creepers used to have an understandable language of hisses- but it has been reduced to only a few words now.
 * They are very fluffy!
 * They have a fuse tail that lights up as they wag it, ultimately causing their explosion due to excitement.
 * Used to be biome variations but natural selection took them out, being a cave creeper was just safer.
 * Mage creepers do exist presently- the closest thing in present would be a charged creeper, they use their magical energy to attract lightning to them.
 * You can get gunpowder by brushing creepers fluff because they have a bunch of loose gunpowder in their fluff- but no one can actually get close enough to brush them because they always explode when you try.