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Bodies are tied to caste. The only thing that changes with age is size and colour (haven't tried fooling around with the hard-coded appearance modifiers). If you were willing to ignore quite a few things you could make one caste the child form and the other the adult form (or two castes for each form, male and female), but the vast majority of things are fixed at birth.

Reading the OP made me think of Grendel from the book of the same name, but that's more than a decade old for a start.
Uh, until the beak comment.

Yeah, then there's the part where Grendel is based on Beowulf. He's a pretty awesome guy, though.

A Christopher Paolini fan I see.

Indeed. I've heard heavy critisism against him, but the Inheritance cycle is one of my favorites.

The Lethrblaka are just really awesome, and I've sort of wanted to test their mettle. I was also thinking about making them a civ.

Nope. Pretty sure it's not in a dictionary, and that they were invented within the last decade.

Also the children wear cloaks and the parents are naked.

No prob. I'll stick the entity file here, too.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4036

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=4037

K. She's got 2 hurt legs and she's close to dehydration, so it's actually quite comical to watch her limp after my panicking settlers.

Ooh, another just showed up!

And...in what can only be described as ridiculously anticlimactic, both of them seem to have wandered off the map without killing anyone...

Caravan hasn't shown up yet, no caves to be seen. I [PET]ted everything that lives underground, but I doubt that would have done it...One of my dorf got bit by a cave spider, and that's how I actually figured out they were here, and there's an olm chilling on the 10th level down.

Actually, this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyY2mK8pxk

Cast an Elf Tree. Or maybe just cast an Elf.

technically, I don't think any plants actually "drop seeds" to reproduce. Isn't it all by spore or something right now?