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protection, but means they can only make short glides
instead of actual flight. They launch themselves as living
battering rams against walled cities or even mountains,
smashing them to pieces. They swallow boulders and melt
them to magma in their guts, vomiting them forth as fiery
projectiles. They hoard valuable gemstones in deep caves.
Daragk’ulnar (Bone Dragons)
Bone dragons reside proudly in the ruins of any civilization they have utterly destroyed. While some expect
them to be skeletal dragons, their names refer to the bone
spurs on their wingtips and joints. Daragk’ulnarin appear
as dragons of pale yellow to ivory hue, their scales always
a shade paler than their hides. They unleash a concussive
blast that can turn a man’s insides to jelly and even crack
marble. From within their warrens of bleached bones and
shattered masonry, they lick clean the weapons and armor
of all who have fallen beneath their massive wings, creating displays of treasure that dare any to take them back.
equatorial regions of Khitus and have long been work
animals for the humans and pachyaur who dwell there.
The colossadant is essentially an elephant that is double
its smaller cousin’s dimensions, therefore eight times its
mass and strength. A large bull colossadant reaches eight
yards in height and can weigh 20 tons. Quite literally, a
single colossadant can apply the brute strength of eight
elephants, and do so much more efficiently since its smaller brethren must be harnessed and managed as a team. A
colossadant can dray half its weight easily, uproot the most
massive trees, and so on. Both elephants and colossadants
require a large amount of water to survive, which is the
single drawback rendering them less well-suited as draft
animals in the southern deserts. If not for that, colossadants
would be preferable as wagon-hauling beasts for the caravans over the difficult and risky thakals and trisaurs.
Fullet (Water Runner)
Elephant & Colossadant
Pachyaur are distant racial kin of the common elephant and its much larger and more powerful counterpart, the colossadant. Both are fairly common in all
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Many a desert wanderer owes his life to a passing stream
of fullets. Sometimes also called “water runners,” fullets
store and carry water with them as they race across the
dunes, making them a life-giving prize. Capturing one
ensures a sweet, quenching draft of clean water, assuming one can catch the speedy creature.
