Rah

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Description

Very muscular and very tall. This monster ranges from five to eight feet tall. It is completely covered in short, but not very short, fur. Rah have long arms and long legs, allowing them to run on all fours if need be. They have a long tail as well. Their feet are feline proportioned, and have long deadly retractable claws. They walk with knees bent. Their hands have long humanoid fingers, with nearly six-inch mostly retractable claws. They have pads on the bottom of their fingers and their palms much like cats. Their heads are feline proportioned, and have long pointed ears. Their faces have an almost constant grin spread over it, exposing long needle teeth when they smile. They can be covered in markings such as spots, stripes and the like. They have no definite solid colour, and can range from any natural fur colour. Their eyes can be red, yellow, green, or blue.

Gender Differences

Females tend to be slightly less muscular than males, and the males are much more aggressive.

Habitat

Rah can make their homes just about anywhere. They travel in bands and tend to enter small villages, whipping out the population and living in the village until the food is gone, then packing up and leaving.

Mannerisms

Rah are very aggressive to any other creature but each other. They do, however, fight among each other, often killing off one another at enormous rates. Travelers can hire them if the price is right. If not, they will kill the traveler and steal what valuables they can from them. They care little for the plights of others, and have even been known to be hired by slavers to capture unsuspecting field workers or travelers for the slave trade.

Strengths

Their brute force is their main strength. The hardly ever use weapons, for they prefer their own claws and teeth to fight. Their size makes them top predators among the forests, though they can be slightly lacking in the head. They can jump nearly four stories with no aid.

Weaknesses

Though they are fighters, they tend to take the rashest action in a delicate situation. They HATE water. They will take shelter when it rains in, in caves or even someone else's home. When confronted with a river to wide to cross, they will walk all the way around the river, looking for a way to get over, as opposed to swimming.

Abilities

None other than the aforementioned physical abilities. They can speak any language, and normally speak common and smatters of scerg. Their voices are deep, and almost screechy, like a panther's scream.

Life Span

Rah can live for nearly 200 to 250 years if they are not killed by each other or another first. Though they hardly ever die of old age.