Ikhortaur

The Ikhortaur is a powerful beast created by the blood god KirronKirron meets the Ihokhetlani and then creates the Ikhortaur - https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4890167. It is a huge cattle bull standing over six meters tall with a hide of smooth, angular bronze, and bright red flames in its eye sockets. The creature is missing a mouth and the usual two horns of a bovine, instead sporting only a single blunt and slightly downwardly-angled horn on its forehead. Scalding hot steam shoots from its nostrils as it exhales.
While it is a strong and sturdy beast to begin with, the Ikhortaur's horn is its primary threat. When the Ikhortaur charges, the horn takes on a power to transmute anything it strikes at speed into fracture-like planes of blood and blasts the target away in the same instant. Any material suffers the same effect -- even the air around the horn condenses into rivulets of blood as the Ikhortaur charges.
The Ikhortaur is extremely aggressive, charging any large creature that encroaches on its mountain territory (especially Ihokhetlani). However, when unaccosted for long enough, it ranges out to hunt and kill sapient creatures before returning to its home.
== Creation ==
Kirron created the Ikhortaur in the Age of Monsters after encountering the Ihokhetlani for the first time on the south-western edge of Atokhekwoi. He found the peaceful stone creatures to be unacceptably lacking compared to their potential. To make them into something better, he created the Ikhortaur and dared the local Ihokhetlani to overcome the challenge. After being the unstoppable stone giants of the land for so long, the Ihokhetlani found themselves taken off guard by the creature before them as it shattered the bodies of their friends into bloody rubble.
Kirron still awaits the Ihokhetlani to rally and take on the challenge, one way or another.
== References ==
Category:Legendary Creatures
Category:Life