Carbon

Carbon is the common name for a metamorphic life form found during the Mage Wars. Carbons aer enegmatic, mysterious beings, though common lore holds them to be artificial or magical in nature. Carbons are not "alive" in the conventional sense; they were made of carbon and silicon, highly ordered, and clearly intelligent; however, no surviving examples have been studied with modern science. The beings very definitely existed(unlike some monsters of myth), but were all killed off. The last known sightings happened in the Second Chaotic Period; they are suspected to have been extinct by Uther's lifetime.

Physical Characteristics

The Carbon's true form is not known. They could take on any shape, but only mimic an existing shape(A carbon was not capable of inventing a "new" form). They are believed to have been comprised of enchanted carbon and silicon. They grew by absorbing more of of those substances, and reproduce through asexual cell division.

Capabilities

A carbon could mimic any shape it had encountered or it's progenitors encountered. They appeared to have infinite memory.