He succeeded in all but one respect. In granting the crabs the intelligence to understand and execute his orders, he accidentally made them both evil in outlook and far too intelligent to control. Communing with the sea in which they dwelt, the crabs taught one another to call forth the magics of nature itself and overthrew their creator, destroying his lair and scattering themselves throughout the sea. His later-discovered journals, history claims, reveal he originally created 3 dozen such crabs. Though they are unable to reproduce, rumor holds that nearly all have survived to this day, hidden in the deepest of underwater caverns, ruling the seas around them.