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{{Character|title1=Gallblighter Wasp|image1=<gallery widths="130">
<blockquote>''"Thank you. There's nothing I can give you but my blessing. And this advice: learn when to blink."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Can_I_help%3F|Can I help?|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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'''Gallblighter Wasps''' are red, insectoid creatures that can grow to the size of a cat.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Exceptional_Story:_Tauroktonos|An Exceptional Story: Tauroktonos|Fallen London|}}</ref> Like many species of wasp, their swarms produce an unnerving drone,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Exceptional_Story:_Tauroktonos|An Exceptional Story: Tauroktonos|Fallen London|}}</ref> and can be found in secluded, dusty places.<ref name = "gallblighter those eyes!">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Those_eyes!|Those eyes!|Fallen London|}}</ref> They violently attack, or even kill, anyone who disturbs their nests, ''also'' like many species of wasp.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Tauroktonos|Tauroktonos|Fallen London|}} ''"There was a wasp-nest [...] [...] One of the students disturbed it [...] She didn't last."''</ref>
SS gallblightergallsgaz.png|Gall-Eyed Engineer
Tauroktonos-poster.png|Blighted Classicist
</gallery>|location=[[London]]}}<blockquote>''"Thank you. There's nothing I can give you but my blessing. And this advice: learn when to blink."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Can_I_help%3F|Can I help?|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote>
'''Gallblighter Wasps''' are red, insectoid creatures that can grow to the size of a cat.<ref name="fallenlondon.wiki">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Exceptional_Story:_Tauroktonos|An Exceptional Story: Tauroktonos|Fallen London}}</ref> Like many species of wasp, their swarms produce an unnerving drone,<ref name="fallenlondon.wiki" /> and can be found in secluded, dusty places.<ref name="gallblighter those eyes!">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Those_eyes!|Those eyes!|Fallen London}}</ref> They violently attack, or even kill, anyone who disturbs their nests, ''also'' like many species of wasp.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Tauroktonos|Tauroktonos|Fallen London}} ''"There was a wasp-nest [...] [...] One of the students disturbed it [...] She didn't last."''</ref>


Gallblighters are most infamous, however, for their tendency to lay their eggs in human eyes. They often sting nearby bystanders with their ovipositors when they're disturbed,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Exceptional_Story:_Tauroktonos|An Exceptional Story: Tauroktonos|Fallen London}} ''"[...] its ovipositor glinting in the gaslight."''</ref> and they may also infest those who sleep too close to their nests.<ref name="gallblighter those eyes!" /> The young Gallblighters then gestate in the eyeballs of their victim, turning them reddish-yellow and disturbingly swollen.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Gall-Eyed_Engineer#Speak_to_the_Gall-Eyed_Engineer|What does she want?|Sunless Sea}}</ref> During the gestation process, the host's eyesight is also entirely transformed: they may see visions of past memories,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/%22Cousin%22%3F|"Cousin"?|Fallen London}}</ref> fantastical surroundings,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/%22What_do_you_see%3F%22|"What do you see?"|Fallen London}}</ref> or even hidden secrets, depending on where they look. Once their time is up, however, the newly-hatched gallblighters burst free, killing their host in the process.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Kingeater%27s_Castle#Interactions|Allow the Gall-Eyed Engineer to go ashore|Sunless Sea}}</ref>
Gallblighters are most infamous, however, for their tendency to lay their eggs in human eyes. They often sting nearby bystanders with their ovipositors when they're disturbed,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Exceptional_Story:_Tauroktonos|An Exceptional Story: Tauroktonos|Fallen London|}} ''"[...] its ovipositor glinting in the gaslight."''</ref> and they may also infest those who sleep too close to their nests.<ref name = "gallblighter those eyes!"/> The young Gallblighters then gestate in the eyeballs of their victim, turning them reddish-yellow and disturbingly swollen.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Gall-Eyed_Engineer#Speak_to_the_Gall-Eyed_Engineer|What does she want?|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> During the gestation process, the host's eyesight is also entirely transformed: they may see visions of past memories,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/%22Cousin%22%3F|"Cousin"?|Fallen London|}}</ref> fantastical surroundings,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/%22What_do_you_see%3F%22|"What do you see?"|Fallen London|}}</ref> or even hidden secrets, depending on where they look. Once their time is up, however, the newly-hatched gallblighters burst free, killing their host in the process.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Kingeater%27s_Castle#Interactions|Allow the Gall-Eyed Engineer to go ashore|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
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Gallblighter.png|A Gallblighter Wasp.
Gallblightergalls.png|The Gall-Eyed Engineer
Classicist.png|The Blighted Classicist
</gallery>


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