Ghortaur

A creature of unique birth, the Ghortaur is the fruit of a cannibalistic minotaur that mated with a gorgon.
== Breeding ==
The birth of a Ghortaur requires the mating of a gorgon and a minotaur, and is birthed into an active volcano. The result of this union is a giant-sized, four-armed beast with a head full of snake hair from which two massive horns emerge. The babe develops in the volcano, feeding off of heat energy and digesting volcanic rock until it blocks up the magma chamber due to its size. The inevitable explosion causes debris to be blown up to 3km high. The fully grown Ghortaur then goes on a rampage to feed its monstrous appetite.
== Ghortaur and the cosmopolitan society ==
Communities near the active volcano are invariably scenes of carnage, buildings are torn down, the streets littered with petrified civilians foolish enough to look at the creature. Despite the danger inherent to living near volcanoes, the high yields of crops inevitably causes the pregnant parent to have several choices for where to birth its young. This leads to Ghortaurs often appearing on tropical islands created by recent volcanoes. A Ghortaur cannot be birthed until it is in the right conditions, leading to pregnancies that can last years, and aborting is incredibly dangerous for the parent. For this reason, the parent will actively seek out active volcanoes to birth the child. The incubator parent of the Ghortaur, often being a minotaur, can threaten the release of its child in exchange for submission, its unborn child being a deterrent to any who would oppose it.
== Behavior ==
Ghortaurs are barely cognisant, behaving animalistically as they are born fully mature. They possess a variant of medusa's glance where all of its snake heads can independently cause fibrodysplasia akinitosis in its victims. Its four arms, gigantic size (depending on the size of a volcano, from  also make it a challenging opponent
They have a unique weakness of swallowing things whole, which makes feeding it explosives until it is sated and detonating them a viable tactic.
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Category:Minotaur
Category:Gorgon
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