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Very little is known about the early stages of chasmfiendchasmfiends's lifeyouth. It's highly likely that they don't live on the [[Shattered Plains]] for most of their life, but rather migrate there when the time comes for them to breed.{{book ref|sa2|49}} Once there, they set up a nest, and continue hunting and scavenging across the chasms.{{book ref|sa1|12}} Eventually, prompted by some unknown instinct, they climb up to one of the plateaus and pupate, forming an immobile, rock-colored chrysalis around themselves. TheThis pupation typically happens during the night, with the chrysalis already formed come daytime. From then, the chrysalis awaits a [[highstorm]]; what happens once that occurs in unclear, as it is then that people typically harvest them.{{book ref|sa2|49}}

In the natural ecosystem of the Plains, chasmfiends are the apex predators.{{book ref|sa2|49}} Their segmented, narrow body makes it easy for them to move through the chasms; even still, they fill all avaiable space, and their passing is often marked by long scratches and scraped flora as the carapace drags across the chasm wall.{{book ref|sa2|71}} Their massive bulk couldcan also be a form of protection from the [[highstorm]] flooding, as it can lock the chasmfiend in place, stopping the flood water from carrying it off.{{book ref|sa2|74}}

Chasmfiends are carnivorous; within their original habitat, they likely hunt wild [[chull]]s, using their massive foreclaws to crush their prey's shells and feed on the meat within.{{book ref|sa2|70}}{{book ref|sa1|13}} As they travel to the [[Shattered Plains]], however, they turn to carrion-eating, eatingdevouring corpses of creatures that fall or are washed down into the chasms from the pleateaus above.{{book ref|sa1|43}}

Though rarely, adult chasmfiends are also hunted, mostly when one wanders into a territory claimed by one of the [[highprince]]s. First, the chasmfiend is lured to climb up onto the plateau by stringing out hog carcasses, and pouring hog's blood into the chasms, to let the chasmfiendbeast smell it. Once the chasmfiend emerges, which can take up to several hours, a flock of wild hogs is let loose for it to pursue. Archers equipped with [[Grandbowgrandbow]]s -- the only bow type capable of harming the chasmfiend -- then pepper the creature with arrows to weaken it. Eventually, [[Shardbearer]]s approach the beast and cut off its legs with their Blades.{{book ref|sa1|12}} Once toppled, the beastchasmfiend is set up for a killing stroke, delivered with a Blade thorugh the spine. The gemheart can then be harvested from the downed beast.{{book ref|sa1|13}}

During the [[War of Reckoning]], the number of chasmfiends that died before they could produce offspring soared, with over fifteen being hunted down every month for their gemhearts, and the wealth and [[Soulcasting]] ability they provideprovided. As a result, in the waning years of the war, their numbers began to dwindle, with fewer chrysalises appearing. [[Shallan Davar]] theorized that as the species previously lacked any predators, it simply cannotcouldn't cope with this new influx of losses, and iswas thus headed towards extinction.{{book ref|sa2|49}}

Chasmfiends are deservedly consideredsaid to be the deadliest predators on [[Roshar]] by the [[Alethi]]. Prior to the [[War of Reckoning]], they were considered legendary, with people rarely venturing out into the Plains to hunt them.{{book ref|sa1|28}} Back then, to kill a chasmfiend was extremely rare; king [[Gavilar]] hashad never slain one, thoughand not for lack of trying. As the War progressed, however, much of the mystique surrounding them has been stripped away, though they are still understood to be extremely dangerous.{{book ref|sa1|12}}

Prior to and during the [[War of Reckoning]], it was a common belief among the [[Alethi]] that the [[listener]]s considered the chasmfiends their gods.{{book ref|sa1|13}} This was an assumption made by early explorers, and one that was never thoroughly investigated; as such, near the end of the war people like [[Shallan]] came to doubt it.{{book ref|sa2|54}} In fact, even prior to his death, [[Gavilar Kholin]] was aware that the listeners did not, in fact, worship the chasmfiends; however, with the warassassination thatand occuredthe soonsubsequent afterconflict, there was never the time for that to become common knowledge, and so the misconception persisted.{{book ref|sa3|prologue}}

Chasmfiends have also had their place in the [[Vorin]] religion. Ancient depictions of [[Voidbringers]] were often based off ofon chasmfiends, leading some to believe that chasmfiends may've been either Voidbringers or part of Voidbringer forces. However, [[Jasnah Kholin]]'s research suggested that theit muchwas far more likely option was that the artists who originally depicted Voidbringers, who lived generations after the last [[Desolation]], did not know what chasmfiendssaid Voidbringers looked like, and so used the most terrifying creature they knew of -- the chasmfiend -- to approximate.{{book ref|sa1|28}}

With the arrival of the [[True Desolation]], it became apparent that the chasmfiends being depicted as Voidbringers came from the historians conflating them with [[thunderclast]]s, -- another type of massive creaturecreatures, which actually serve [[Odium]]. Thunderclasts and chasmfiends share very few physical characteristics; most notably, their enormous size and the shape of the head. However, they are killed in very similar way, by slicing at their legs with [[Shardblade]]s.{{book ref|sa3|120}}