Homebrew gigantic chimera ants Species Details

chimera ant a myrhical beast from the famous anime/manga hunter x hunter or hiatus x hiatus.

chimera ants are extremely dangerous insects, also known as "Gourmet Ants" due to carefully selecting their food, they have voracious appetites and can consume several times their own weight within a single day. It is not uncommon for Chimera Ants to devour their preferred fodder species to extinction. In general, normally not even Chimera Ant queens become bigger than 10 centimeters, but gigantic Chimera Ant queens are over 2 meters tall. Chimera Ant queens possess an entirely unique method of reproduction known as Phagogenesis , a term meaning reproduction through devouring. By eating other creatures, a Chimera Ant queen can impart the characteristics of ingested creatures onto the next generation of Chimera Ants it gives birth to. She can produce up to five Ants with one meal. To take advantage of the genes of a particular species, Chimera Ants have been known to feed until the fodder species is driven to extinction in its ecosystem. Humans are known to be extremely nutritious fodder for Chimera Ant queens. Each generation of Chimera Ants is profoundly different from the one that preceded it, and even individual Ants from the same generation exhibit profound genetic differences, which are expressed by their unique appearance: a fodder species/Ant hybrid, the former component depending on the queen's diet. Genes from multiple species can be mixed in the same Ant. Regardless of their non-insect genes, many of them retain athropod legs. Thanks to the unique method of reproduction of the species, Chimera Ant soldiers often inherit advantageous traits of the fodder species the queen fed on. Should the prey in question be humans, the resulting Ants will be more intelligent than ones born from wild animals to different extents, stronger, have the ability to talk, learn and operate machinery such as firearms (also normally when a chimera ant has human genes after a while gains idepentence and may leave the nest or plot against the queen, also ants with human genes may be able to recollect memories of the human they came from). 

A Chimera Ant colony is organized into a military-like chain of command. At the top of the hierarchy is the Queen, who hunts on her own until she produces a sufficient amount of soldiers to procure food in her stead. In the meanwhile, she keeps moving until she finds a suitable location to build a nest, after which she spawns hordes of Construction Ants, where she remains until her death. She produces a King at regular intervals, who leaves the nest to mate with a female of another species and impregnating the next generation's Queen. Right below the Queen and King in the hierarchy are the Royal Guards  a handful of elite soldiers. Initially tasked with protecting the Queen, they are assigned to the King after his birth and leave the nest with him. A Queen's appetite increases while she prepares to give birth to the Royal Guards, at which point she stops spawning Soldiers, and peaks while she is pregnant with the King. Soldier Ants are organized in three ranks, their number is inversely proportional to their degree of strength and authority: directly under the Royal Guards, and, after the King's birth, the Queen, are the Squadron Leaders, each in command of a group of Officers, who in turn have authority over Peons and Drudges. After the Queen's demise, her underlings, starting from the Squadron Leaders, then spreading to the Officers as the chain of command breaks, become copycat Kings and leave the nest to spread their own seed.

A Chimera Ant's life starts from an egg, which the Queen hangs from the ceiling of her shelter. When it hatches a Chimera Ant will emerge in full adult form ready to work for the Queen. The Queen is the center of reproduction. In the event that she should die, reports state that male soldier Ants will break from the colony and will become copycat Kings, trying to forcibly mate with females of other species to give birth to a new generation of Ants.

gigantic chimera ants Traits

you can be anything so get creative.

ability score increase

you increase 3 stats of your choice.

phagogenesis ancestry

you can select 3 traits of your choice from anything in the world but you can't select legendary actions or more ability score increases.