Amaroki

Height:  15 feet at the shoulder

Length:  20 feet

Weight:

Lifespan:  20 years

Habitat:  Far nothern reaches of Ch’Karna

Diet:  Carnivorous, eating primarily large tundra herbivores

Nearest Relation:  Wolfs

Amaroki are huge arctic, wolf-like beasts.

Once thought to be legendary, the Amarok is a heavily-built lupine monstrosity, 15 feet tall at the shoulder and nearly 20 feet in length. It has a long coat of thick fur which regularly brushes the ground, large teeth which grow long enough that they cannot fit in its mouth, and each paw sports three scythe-like claws which it can flex independant of the muscles in its feet.

Amaroki prey mostly on large tundra herbivores: reindeer, yale, moose, charging from remote burrows in the ice and often hunting in the mated pairs which they maintain for life. Kills are dragged back to ice burrows or to a den. The pairs are very devoted to one another and stories abound about hunters killing one Amarok, only to have its mate seek him out and kill him years later. Children are always born in pairs, and the cubs remain with their parents until adolescence. An Amarok typically lives about twenty years.

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