Crab

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Crab
Monster Information
Japanese	カニ
Romaji	Kani
Type	Crustacean Beast
Race	Beast
Dominion	YGGDRASIL & New World
Debut Information
Light Novel	Overlord Volume 4
Manga	Overlord Chapter 20
Game	Mass for the Dead

Crabs (カニ) are aquatic creatures related to the crustacean family that are found in YGGDRASIL and the New World.

Appearance

Crabs were hard-shelled creatures with six pincer-like legs and two claws. Sometimes resembling bright red creatures, though various variants exist depending on their breed.

Types

• Death Snow Crab
• Giant Crustacean
• Large Crustacean
• Mud Crab
• Snap Grasp

Abilities

In YGGDRASIL crab-type monsters existed, and were mostly found around moonlit nights or other places of water like the beach, rivers, swamps and oceans.

Depending on the species crabs had a variety of uses. In the New World, crabs could be fished. They were used as food by peoples like the lizardmen or even could be summoned as giant beasts for battle.

In Mass for the Dead, some crabs could live up to two centuries and possess shells that could blend with a cave wall.

Known Crabs

• Amanomahitotsu
• Undead Axe Land Club

Trivia

• Clavu used crab to make sushi for Tuareninya Veyron.
• Cocytus once had a swimsuit that made him look like a giant hermit crab.
• In some cultures, the image in the Moon, is said to not only resemble a rabbit pounding a mortar and pestle, but of a crab. Additionally the constellation of Cancer is depicted as a crab.
• In Mass for the Dead, Slimeko enjoyed the taste of cooked giant crab meat a the Mysterious Island.
• Ainz Ooal Gown upon finding an undead crab in the Katze Plains, led him to the line of thinking that the area once may have been a body of water, which later dried up, since a crab would never travel so far inland.