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Kelpie
Habitat:
Can be found anywhere with Fresh Water, preferably Lochs.
Size:
18-20hh
Biome Role:
Carnivorous Equine
Life Cycle:
As a foal, they live with their mothers untill they become young adults, then they split to look for their own water source. They live long lives, sometimes around 300 years.
Cultural Significance:
N/A
Description:
Kelpies can be found anywhere with Fresh Water sorces.
- If they are in ælheim, their Glamor of Illusion will have bioluminescent in their hair or body.
- If in a place where there is no bioluminescent, they just look like a horse.
- True Form: The true from of the Kelpie is a monsterous carnivorus horse that eats mortal races or anything that will drink from their lake if given the opportunity.
- Their teeth are sharp, they can unhing their jaw for a better grip on struggling prey to drag them to a watery grave where they will drown and eat the victim.
- Coats can have a thing layer of hair, hairless leathery skin, or scaley and fish-like
- Their tails are long with fish-like fins to help with swiming.
Hunting:
Kelpies hunt in a verity of ways, they are opportunistic hunters.
- Ambush predators beneath the surface, similar to crocodiles, if hunting other fauna.
- The use of thier Glamour allows them to look like beautiful white/black horses with bioluminescent green or blue manes and markings. But, they are not. It's an Illusion to lure in prey. The illusion evaporates if they leave the water, so most just stand at the waters edge with their back legs submerged up to their ankles.
Territory:
- Territorial toward other Kelpie Herds, depending on how big the water soruce is.
- A male Kelpie will only share territory with females and one (1) other male if the herds is large enough.
- Will only share water sources with other herds if:
- the body of water is deep enough and the shoreline is big enough for them all.
- Only up to 3 herds max within a single water source.
- Similar to wolf packs in terms of keeping to their own territory, if lake is split in two-three. Each herd will keep to their side.
- Offspring get driven off once they reach maturity.
- Young Nomadic bachelor herds do NOT claim territory, they often travel from water source to water source in search of food.
Notable Features:
- Cathemeral Hunters (active during day and night)
- Preferably only eat creatures that live on land and can eat waterweeds and waterplants to sustain themselves between large meaty meals. Mostly to settle their stomachs from eating bones.
- It is the females that do the hunting majority of the time.
- Females will sometimes ambush and eat their herds male(s):
- If they are weaker than the females
- If they want a new male in the territory
- If the male is sick / injured / old
- Black and white coats are the most common, but they can have other colours you find in normal horses.
- Some have scales, some have smooth leathery skin, some have a thin layering of hair.
- Sharp teeth for tearing into prey
Beast Glamor:
- Illusion: kelpies have the Beast Glamour of Minor Illusion. They can look like beautiful horses standing on the shoreline with long flowing manes and tails, but really; it's just an Illusion to lure in prey.
- Drawback: The Kelpie has to keep at least one (1) hoof submerged in their water soruce or it will evaporate and they will look their true monsterous self.
- Sticky Hide: Any mortal who touches or rides on the back of a Kelpie will become stuck.
- Drawback: ???
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