Masticore

Created by Odain Cabals to fight the Wustermin in the early Third Era, the Masticore has received a fearsome reputation for its powers on the field of battle.

Anatomy
Looking similar to a lion with a scorpion tail, the Masticore stands at a fearsome nine feet tall and fourteen feet long. Large silvery scales cover this fearsome beast's body, and grant it a high resistance to fire. Poison drips fromt he beasts maw and tail, strong enough to melt plate and kill a man in minutes; the Masticore's poison is world famous for its effectiveness and incureable nature. A quadraped, the Masticroe is capable of high speeds, and the ability to run and hunt at birth. Many Masticores currently alive are in the wild, beasts that have escaped captivity, but there are sitll large number being produced by Odain Cabals.

Lairs
A group of Masticores is called a Harrowing, and they live in hollows. A Masticore's hollow is usually tunnleed beneath a pre-existing structure, and is connected to several other hollows. A harrowing is generally 9-14 adults and twice as amny children; young Masticores have trouble adjusting to the Harrowing and generally slay one another before reaching maturity. Masticores collect shiny object, usually armor ro jewlery, from fallen foes and from the ruins they build their Hollows underneath.

The most common area to find Masticores is in the Wronthic Free-Marches, and Far Wronth itself. Several Masticore hollows generally accompany maurading Ormal Hordes and the occasional Dracoarch.