Talk:Sandworm/@comment-39742770-20191009230740/@comment-10429980-20191010024543

Not all monsters are able to turn women into more of their own kind. Regular imps for instance can't, women monsterized by elementals usually become succubi instead of elementals, etc. So we can't do more than speculate on the sandworm, aside from that what we know about their behavior makes it unlikely they would bother to monsterize a woman even if they could do it.

But for arguments sake, if one was able to and did, then I'd speculate she would either not swallow the woman to begin with, or she'd spit her out before she had time to grow her new shell to its full size, thus avoiding any size complications. If the sandworm's own size was complicating things even then, then she could shrink down her worm shell until she became lamia-sized and proceed to monsterize her target while in that more compact form.

Now as for the question of how a woman would transform if, say, a lilim turned her into a sandworm, well there are few things I can say for sure. One is that sex would not necessarily be required, that's just one of many means monsters use to monsterize someone. Depending on circumstances a powerful monster like a lilim may require nothing more than a simple touch or embrace to initiate a transformation, or a specific spell or ritual.

We can also say that while a newly monsterized body is indeed sensitive at first, said sensitivity invariably results in pleasure rather than pain. If succubi are any indication then monsters have a rather dulled sense of pain in general.

As for how big the newly monsterized woman's shell would be, that depends on just what factors contribute to how big a sandworm's shell gets. If its only age then the monsterized woman might end up growing a shell that would be typical of a sandworm of that age, or if its power related then the shell would be proportional to the woman's own power.

Also, technically the humanoid portion of a sandworm isn't actually a tongue. It's tongue-like, but technically it is the core of her body, the rest of it functioning as basically a huge, living shell that is connected at all times to her core.