Melluka-Alharamat

Melluka-Alharamat, also known as the Grimm Pharaoh, is an ancient creature of Grimm whose level of power equals the Grimm Dragon. In the story of RWBY: Falling LEAVes, its movements are the subject of much speculation and its presence is mainly felt in background conversation, until it makes its appearance heading for Vale after the Vytal Festival Disaster to take advantage of its weakness.

Appearance
As his nickname implies, Melluka is a creature of Grimm in the shape of a mummified humanoid pharaoh. It is large, easily reaching the heights of Vale's residential buildings. Its entire body is wrapped generously in thick bandage-like tentacles, with unusually large hands and feet, occasionally interrupted by sharp bone-spikes that continuously shift around its body as it moves. Its head is topped by a Nemes-style 'head-dress' made out of glowing Grimm bone which covers its forehead and neck. If it weren't for the head-dress, its face would have look melded to its body, with only a beard of bandage-tentacles and six glowing-red eyes distinguishing it from the rest.

Abilities
Melluka is classified as a Threat-Level 9 creature of Grimm on its own. Given that the massive horde that attacked Vale was Threat Level 9 (before the Dragon), this is a testament to its incredible strength. Despite its relatively small size for its age, each of the bandage-like tentacles that surround its body have the power to cleave through a building in one whip-like swing. Combined with the fact it is composed out of hundreds of them, this makes Melluka's destructive power ludicrously high. Furthermore, as the tentacles form its exterior, they provide a very tough defense to penetrate, with extremely high-caliber bullets required to reach its inner body. This automatic defense system is considered the first obstacle to taking it down.

When one can overwhelm its automatic defenses and is perceived as a legitimate threat, Melluka will actually attack with its hands and legs. While the number of assaulting appendages is much smaller, Melluka is incredibly fast and its blows carrying the combined strength of every tentacle in said appendage, allowing for the obliteration of Hunters in one blow. The bone-spikes that occasionally poke out of its form will even shift to form 'weapons' like spiked knuckles and mauls, while being secreting a potent venom that is non-lethal but causes extreme pain equivalent to electrocution. It can even absorb bullets fired into and flick them out with the same strength as if fired from an actual gun.

Because Melluka's Threat Level comes from its extremely honed individual strength versus a Grimm Dragon whose main danger comes from its ability to summon more creatures, Melluka can kill a Dragon despite its smaller size.

''The truth to Melluka's form is that it lacks an actual internal body. Minus its head-dress, the Grimm is entirely made out of its tentacles. This is because its origin species is that of a Grimm jellyfish, which over millenia has learned to not only live out of the ocean, but also utilized its tentacles to coil extensively around each other to form a humanoid body for locomotion and combat purposes. This in turn resulted in a tentacle-body that was essentially impossible to harm. After learning of human history, it chose to mimic a mummy's form to trick humans into assuming an inner body, while mimicking human muscular structure with its tentacles, showing its remarkable intelligence. As a result of its form, destroying it requires destroying its 'headdress' but said headdress can only be damaged from the underside, where all of its tentacles originate from.''

Behavior
Melluka is considered an enigmatic creature. It is solitary, moving on its own and scaring away any creature that comes near it, while moving in erratic patterns over land and sea. Because it is in truth a jellyfish, it moves much, much faster in the water, crossing oceans in hours, and hence it gives the illusion to its trackers that it is teleporting from continent to continent. It does not attack human settlements and when running into human caravans, has a tendency to leave everyone alive so long as they do not try to attack it. It does, however, have an unusual frequency in attacking CCTS support towers, doing minor damage.

''Melluka is in actuality a creature dedicated to learning. Unlike the dragons, which hibernated in preparation of destruction, it has remained active over its entire life-span (jellyfish don't 'sleep' like we do) and has in turn amassed a huge amount of information regarding humankind. With the same curiosity that led it out of the ocean, it has effectively deciphered the human-language system, understands human biology, discerned much of human society such as locomotion, weaponry and food and most recently, has realized what the CCTS system is, along with Remnant's version of the Internet. Its attacks on the CCTS support towers are hence attempts at accessing its computers, while its final attack on the city of Vale is to try for the primary tower that sits in Beacon.''