Chimerite

This article contains spoilers, read at your own risk. Chimerites are small organisms that live inside Chimera. They only form when the Chimera is within a dark, moist environment and when it is well nourished. Chimerites emerge from the original chimera when it dies. The number of chimerites per chimera is anywhere from one to sixty.

Chimerites have the properties of regular chimerae, except they are much weaker and smaller. They have the strange ability to shapeshift into any organism they absorb. Instead of keeping mass of previous hosts, they usually discard extra material.