Environment

Special abilities

Normal sight 15 | Dark vision 5 | Legs 6

Scorpions evidently fascinated ancient alchemists and shady wizards, who mutated them for so long that they bred specimens ranging from the size of a pig to gigantic monsters as big as an elephant. All of them are dirty yellow, brown or black in colour.

Unlike the ordinary scorpion, which buries itself in the scorching sand during the day, the giant scorpion cannot burrow, and the sun does not bother it. It is tireless and hunts all day. Insects are not enough for it, so it looks for bigger prey; not even a lion can resist its poison. It is very voracious and soon becomes the terror of the area. Without food it does not die, but falls into a lethargy from which it is woken by the presence of a warm-blooded creature.

Fortunately giant scorpions breed only a little, apparently because of their magical origin.

Combat

The scorpion has no intelligence, knows neither fear nor fatigue and throws itself blindly at its prey. It likes to catch it with its pincers and then stab it with its poisonous tail. As soon as it catches something and no other prey is within reach, it starts eating and lets the others escape.