Asags

Asags are animals endemic to The Universal System of Helt.

Appearance and physiology
Asags are hideous to the point of physically hurting some people with their appearance. According to ancient Sumerian mythology, if an asag passes by a river, the fish swimming there will boil alive.

Asags can live for tens of thousands of years and grow to 500 meters tall. Despite their enormous size, they are relatively weak. Even the strongest of asags can only lift about 3/4 of their body mass.

The skin of an asag is made mostly out of stone-like material. The skin on its hands, face and back spikes is darker but equally hard. An asag is born out of a mountain, and carries the top of said mountain on their back.

Asags do not have legs in the usual sense. Instead, they move using a bunch of stone tentacles grouped together.

Almost a third of their body weight consists of their head.They have five eyes, one large on the left and four smaller on the right. The larger eye is surrounded by a section of white, resembeling a ghost with a single eye. Asags have two horns, one small and frizzeled made out of stone, and one large and curvy made out of keratin.

Asags usually have tens of thousands of teeth, and as they get older, their jaws deform, making it difficult to close their mouths. Even if they do, many of their teeth will break apart. Instead of chewing their food, they prefer to swallow everything whole. The teeth of asags are mainly an aestethic for intimidation.

Asags do not produce excrement, and it is proposed that they contain an organ that turns all eaten material into pure energy.

Personality
Asags are intelligent enough to speak human language. However, they are incredibly hostile towards humans and animals alike, and will try to eat or kill almost anyone in vicinity.

Significance is Helt
Asags are mostly used in heavy industry, construction and waste disposal. However, Satan is the only entity in Helt intimidating enough to command asags. Therefore a lot of the asag work force remains unused.

Unemployed asags will either roam around Helt looking for unfortunate people to eat, or sleep.

Rarely, asags will find an exit from Helt and cause mayhem on Earth.

Trivia

 * The lead singer of the death metal band Sudden Instant Volatile Explosive Baby Syndrome is a young asag.
 * In 32011, Satan donated 10 asags to be used as opponents in The World's Toughest Stick-man competition. In nearly all incarnations, all 10 remained undefeated.