Umbros Lions

The Umbros lions are medium sized black furred feline like predators that live in small prides ; while they originally evolved to live in forest biomes they seem perfectly adept at thriving in the urban jungle. The secret behind their ability to bypass any defenses arrayed against them lies in their ability to shadow walk in a way similar to raven guard marines making themselves invisible to all detect devices and sight by bending reality around them to make themselves invisible. Not only that but they go a step further and can render themselves intangible for short periods of time.

## Codex

The Umbros Lions (also known as shadow cats or simply black lions ) are a medium sized feline predators that are feared throughout the Olympian hives for being nearly undetectable and being able to bypass every defense system or trap set for them.

### Physiology

Umbros Lions measure at 3 meters from head to tail , with said tail being one third of that length. They are 100 cm tall at the shoulder with males standing slightly taller at 110-130 cm. Males generally weigh 78 to 127 kg while females are less heavy at a 67 to 100 average .

These felines have phenomenal senses with nocturnal colour vision , hearing that can pinpoint an insect anywhere within 12 km and a sixth sense that allows them to detect warp signatures (souls) of any potential prey nearby.

Not only that but the Umbros have phenomenal strength and speed (being able to reach speeds of 100 miles per hour ) but have a bite capable of eating through adamantium, are excellent climbers and can jump ten times their height. Even the most likely weakness for felines: water, has been shown to be ineffective with them being excellent swimmers. Even more frustratingly is their strong immune systems which have rendered any attempts at crafting species specific bio weapons or toxins futile endeavours.

Of course their most remarkable feature is there ability to “shadow walk “ temporarily rendering themselves non existent by becoming intangible and invisible through some kind of warp mastery . It is not known if normal human psykers can replicate this feat but raven Guard Liberiarians have been known to use a similar skill.

The only upside is that Umbros lions are primarily nocturnal and though instances of them appearing during the day are not rare they seem to be less aggressive when the sun is out.
Umbros lions are pure carnivores and will eat any animal they can bring down from insects to fish and even larger prey like Pachedmis. Their preferred prey however seems to have become humans recently.

### Social Behaviour

Umbros lions live in small groups names shades which consist of a male (or two in the case of siblings ) and a number of females ranging from two to five who function as mates and the cubs resulting from these unions .
Shades are not territorial and multiple shades have been known to live alongside each other with little issue. In fact they have been known to cooperate in taking down larger prey, with three shades being observed working together to take down a Sepailis ; showing surprising intelligence and cunning in the process.
Notably these dark felines seem to single out those corrupted by chaos as prey , indeed during the ongoing cleansing of the underhives they observed showing priority in eating cultists even when easier prey was available.
Their sixth sense seems to be able to detect the taint of the ruinous powers which has made the arbites intrested in the possibility of taming them .

### Range

The Lions exist throughout every major Island continent on Atlantis from the Scorching Johnamian deserts to the unforgiving Nix wastelands , a teastment to their adaptability is that they are the most widespread non-aquatic wild predator on the planet.
Worryingly however is that they seem to take a liking to human habitation, particularly underhives which provides a nice dark environment with an abundance of prey . Indeed many shades are observed to be migrating towards nearby human cities.

## Investigate Umbros Lions

Umbros lions are amongst the most destructive pests on Atlantis , killing thousands of people yearly with no amount of defenses being able to stop them. Zerxes would like to take a look at them.

### Completed

Zerxes has spent five years studying the creature responsible for almost half of civilian casualties in the underhives . The Umbros lions are medium sized black furred feline like predators that live in small prides ; while they originally evolved to live in forest biomes they seem perfectly adept at thriving in the urban jungle.

The secret behind their ability to bypass any defenses arrayed against them lies in their ability to shadow walk in a way similar to raven guard marines making themselves invisible to all detect devices and sight by bending reality around them to make themselves invisible. Not only that but they go a step further and can render themselves intangible for short periods of time.

## Taming (Umbros Lions)

Recent breakthroughs have made Zerxes believe that he can potentially figure out how to tame the Umbros Lions, one of Atlantis’ most deadly predators. If successful this project has immense applications.

### Completed

Zerxes through careful application of sedative drugs, conditioning and much breeding of more obedient spicments has managed to make a population of Umbros lions that are subservient to humans without losing any of their magnificent abilities.

This success pleases you as these felines can be used as anything from scouts for the roughriders to support for the arbites and now you can begin to look into how they can perform such feats of psychic mastery.

## Umbros Lions Enclosure

Now that a small population of tamed Umbros Lions exists, in order to utilize them on anything resembling a large scale Zerxes has to design a - well, not stable in the traditional sense, but an enclosure - that can cater to the Lion’s needs while promoting reproduction among them. Zerxes is aware of the difficulties in building enclosures for creatures that can phase through solid walls, but he is willing to give it a try.

### Completed

The Umbros Enclosure is many ways a miracle of bioengineering as Zerxes has found that a certain type of wood taken from the Salb tree somehow nullifies the lions phasing abilities which had finally allowed him to effectively capture large quantities of the felines.

However the lions can still go invisible and many an escape happened by the way of someone opening a seemingly empty enclosure only to be ripped apart by thin air.

### Rewards

Umbros Lions Enclosure designed, can be built across Atlantis. -50% casualties caused by Umbros Lions. Further options unlocked.