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<blockquote> | <blockquote>''"The body is preserved in a jar: legless, scaleless, deep blue. There are tiny tentacles on its face, below its sightless eyes."''<ref name = "preserved false snake">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Preserved_False-Snake|Preserved False-Snake|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
''"The body is preserved in a jar: legless, scaleless, deep blue. There are tiny tentacles on its face, below its sightless eyes."''<ref name = "preserved false snake">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Preserved_False-Snake|Preserved False-Snake|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | |||
'''False-snakes''' are creatures with superficially serpentine bodies, but are otherwise very different from actual snakes. They are dark blue and lack scales,<ref name = "preserved false snake"/> and apparently reside deep underground, with pointed jaws and facial tentacles used to burrow through dirt.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Analyse_your_False-Snake|Analyse your False-Snake|Fallen London|}} ''"It was grown in the darkness [...] jaw is pointed [...] face tentacled for burrowing into the earth."''</ref><ref name = "preserved false snake"/> They also seem to possess a second pair of jaws within their exterior mouths,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Apply_your_understanding_of_monsters_2|Apply your understanding of monsters 2|Fallen London|}}</ref> and, like many other animals that live in extreme darkness, their eyes are also recognizably sightless.<ref name = "preserved false snake"/> | '''False-snakes''' are creatures with superficially serpentine bodies, but are otherwise very different from actual snakes. They are dark blue and lack scales,<ref name = "preserved false snake"/> and apparently reside deep underground, with pointed jaws and facial tentacles used to burrow through dirt.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Analyse_your_False-Snake|Analyse your False-Snake|Fallen London|}} ''"It was grown in the darkness [...] jaw is pointed [...] face tentacled for burrowing into the earth."''</ref><ref name = "preserved false snake"/> They also seem to possess a second pair of jaws within their exterior mouths,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Apply_your_understanding_of_monsters_2|Apply your understanding of monsters 2|Fallen London|}}</ref> and, like many other animals that live in extreme darkness, their eyes are also recognizably sightless.<ref name = "preserved false snake"/> | ||
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Apparently, false-snakes are a relative of frogs and other amphibians.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Analyse_your_False-Snake|Analyse your False-Snake|Fallen London|}}</ref> Many supposedly ancient false-snakes were found west of [[London]] in the [[Hinterlands]], their corpses preserved in a strange, icy marsh. Whether or not these creatures still roam the [[Neath]] today is unknown.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Arrange_with_Furnace_for_the_excavation|Arrange with Furnace for the excavation|Fallen London|}}</ref> | Apparently, false-snakes are a relative of frogs and other amphibians.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Analyse_your_False-Snake|Analyse your False-Snake|Fallen London|}}</ref> Many supposedly ancient false-snakes were found west of [[London]] in the [[Hinterlands]], their corpses preserved in a strange, icy marsh. Whether or not these creatures still roam the [[Neath]] today is unknown.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Arrange_with_Furnace_for_the_excavation|Arrange with Furnace for the excavation|Fallen London|}}</ref> | ||
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Snakehead.png|A Preserved False-Snake. | |||
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