Environment

Special abilities

Normal sight 15 | Dark vision 5 | Legs 4 | Faster running 1

The karialis is a massive grey-brown creature with a head about the size of a human, a massive torso and a spiny tail ending like a mace. It walks slowly on all fours, protected by armour plating with spikes on its back and sides.

Although it looks dangerous, it is a peaceful herbivore. By day it grazes calmly in the forest, at night it dozes standing up and digests the grass and leaves it has eaten. Karialises gather in large herds that roam the land and leave behind them a wide furrow and heaps of dung; together they can thus defend their young and themselves against large predators.

In spring the female lays a huge egg the size of a melon, from which the young hatches only the following summer. It reaches adulthood only after many years.

Combat

The karialis attacks only in self-defense or when its offspring is threatened. It can fight with its maw and tail at the same time, even against two different opponents. It prefers to face an enemy head-on or with its back, because its flanks are the least protected. Like every giant, it can simply trample a smaller being that stands in its way.