Environment

Special abilities

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

The rhinoceros is a massive animal of ancient appearance with thick skin and a head ending in a characteristic horn, in some species a large and a small horn. Only the young tend to be hairy. The largest rhinoceroses measure around five meters in length and two in height, and weigh over three and a half tons.

They live in warm savannas, on riverbanks and in jungles, either alone or as a mother with her young, which follows her everywhere. They are herbivores: they graze on low-growing plants and tree leaves and dig up roots with their horn. They graze mainly at dusk and at night; during the day they wallow in mud or rest in the shade.

The rhinoceros sees poorly, but has excellent hearing and smell. It is grumpy and unpredictable and attacks anything that seems suspicious to it, especially when it enters its territory; as soon as it is convinced that nothing threatens it, it calms down. Thanks to its strength and size it need fear no one except elephants and great lizards, and predators warily avoid it.

Combat

In combat it attacks with its horn, preferably from a run-up, and it can knock down and trample a smaller opponent.