Classification: Demonigenus Tentaculofloran
Designation: Recaller
Type: Ag’nagaruth Possessed — Retrieval / Capture Form
Recallers are not built to kill quickly.
They are built to take you back.
Among the many specialised forms produced by Ag’nagaruth corruption, the Recaller is one of the most disturbing because its purpose is not simple destruction. It exists to retrieve living targets, drag them from defensive positions, and return them to the horde.
Alive.
The body is radically altered around that function.
The upper torso broadens and twists, supporting multiple elongated tendrils or tentacular growths capable of extending far beyond the creature’s immediate reach. These appendages are not soft or passive. They are muscular, barbed and unnaturally precise, able to coil around limbs, armour, weapons and structural supports with violent force.
From darkness, ventilation shafts, ruined corridors or behind dense concentrations of lesser possessed, it waits for distance to become meaningless.
Then the tendrils strike.
One moment a soldier is behind cover.
The next, they are gone.
Recallers are especially effective against organised formations because they attack the integrity of the group rather than the strength of the individual. They separate personnel from one another, pull defenders through breached doors, drag wounded combatants out of firing lines and snatch isolated targets from elevated positions.
The tactic creates panic almost immediately.
Not because of what the creature does.
Because of what happens after someone disappears.
The recovered victim is rarely returned unchanged.
Some are dragged into areas saturated with Ag’nagaruth corruption.
Others vanish into masses of possessed.
Some are later encountered again as Husks, Striders or more specialised forms.
This is where the designation becomes horrifyingly literal.
The Recaller does not simply capture.
It recalls flesh to the horde.
Its anatomy often reflects prolonged adaptation. The central body may remain partially humanoid, but the back, shoulders and ribs distort around the growth of multiple appendages. Some specimens display flower-like arrangements of tendrils unfolding from the upper body, giving rise to the classification Tentaculofloran.
That is usually the last warning.
Recallers are dangerous at range, but they are not helpless in close quarters. Their tendrils can strike, crush, bind and disarm with brutal efficiency. Cutting one appendage rarely disables the creature entirely.
There are always more.
Their battlefield role is simple:
A squad can prepare for Husks.
It can watch for Striders.
It can reinforce against Brutes.
A Recaller attacks the space between them.
And once something coils around your ankle in the dark—
the fight is no longer about killing it.
It is about stopping yourself from being taken.