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An enormous insect, with the appearance of a tick. The giant tick is one of several species of giant insects native to the Mazes. It appears to be an enormous version of the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixodes_scapularis ixodes scapularis]'', a type of hard tick, so called because their bodies are armored with a scale-like shield. These giant ants are approximately 2 feet tall. Their length and weight varies depending on whether they are fully engorged with blood (see below for details), but at rest and empty, their default adult length is approximately 4 feet, and they weigh roughly 30 lbspounds.
Giant ticks are known for their ''vampire bite'' ability, inherited from their regular counterparts. At their size, they are capable of performing blood-sucking bites on nearly any applicable creature in the Mazes, including people. These bites leave remarkably small wounds - small enough, in fact, that sustained bleeding is extremely rare, being closer to a syringe in effect than anything else. Giant ticks sustain themselves by sucking the blood out of other creatures into a sac, engorging themselves until they are full. A fully engorged giant tick grows to six feet in length, and can carry up to 8 gallons of blood (a little over 30 000 cubic centimeters), or the equivalent of 5 average humans' total worth of blood with a bit of room to spare.