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[Fauna] Meh'kat - Animal Lore


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Habitat:

Cliffs, snowy mountains and tree tops

   

 

Size:

Well known for their rather big size, Meh'kats, also often called ‘Flying Bears’, hatch from their eggs, being the size of a small wolf pup. Over the first few months the younglings will grow up to the size of full-sized wolves only to reach their mature years. Within their mature years they will continue to grow, reaching the height of around 13 feet and a length of around 20 feet. Meh'kats of those sizes are the most common ones, yet, only due to the fact that older Meh'kats are often a rare sight, thanks to hunters and exotic traders. It is, however, said that Meh'kats are growing their whole life and can grow even larger, depending on their age and environment. The normal weight of a Meh'kat ranges from around 400 to 600 pounds, once again depending on their environment.

   

 

Diet:

The diet of Meh'kats consists mostly of meat, sometimes ranging from the size of a human head to the size of a whole cow or even bigger mammals. Yet, it is also known that many Meh'kats are showing a love for nuts and exotic fruits, often smashing them under their claws and slurping the juicy goo or eating the delicious nut. Unlike most other animals, Meh'kats are also known to attack humans if they enter their nest, often devouring them after they killed said humans.

   

 

Temperament:

Meh'kats are known for their harsh and often fiercy temperament, barely allowing anyone to get near them without getting into a aggressive posture. As such, Meh'kats are known as nearly uncontrollable beasts. However, it is also known that some Druids and even some Farfolk were able to tame those beasts in the past, gaining a trusting ally and a mighty warrior on their side.

   

 


 

Brief summary of the creature:

 

Being the rulers of the skies Meh'kats are known as hybrids, combining the features of a bear and either an eagle, owl or other birds. Unlike their land counterparts, the Demigryph, Meh'kats are known to have a set of mighty wings, allowing them to fly and glide over a long distance. Due to them being hybrids Meh'kats are having the main body of a bear, however, they don’t have fur, but are rather covered in feathers all over. Those feathers are often showing all kind of colors, mostly colors similar to their nearby terrain or habitat. Meh'kats on snowy mountain tops are known to have white and black feathers, resembling snow owls, while Meh'kats on tree tops are often holding bluish- or greenish-colored feathers. Their head is resembling their bird counterpart, often holding a sharp peak, able to rip bits of flesh out of their prey, and also holding their sharp eyes in place. The eyes of a Meh'kat can see several miles far, able to spot prey on the lower levels of mountains or fishes inside of the ocean.

 

Next to their mighty wings and their sharp peaks and eyes Meh'kats are also holding a set of sharpened claws at their paws, allowing the majestic beasts to climb up walls, cliffs and sometimes even hang head-over in ocean caves, waiting for a bypasser to walk into their hunting grounds. However, due to such claws and a feathery body Meh'kats are known to be slower then horses, due to them sometimes stumbling over their own claws or feathers.


Meh'kats are known to live for around seventy to more than one hundred years, making them rather long-living animals in comparison to most other beasts found in the current realms. While they are alive the Meh'kats continue to grow the whole time, making them fairly unique animals on their own.


  


 

    Characteristic (Behaviour, Reproduction, Gathering food):

   

Feathers:

The feathers of the Meh'kat are a rare trading good, often reaching high prices on marketplaces. One of the main reason for such is the coloration of the feathers and the density of several feathers together. Many tailors are often trying to use Meh'kat feathers for coats and dresses, yet, also causing the outfit to become far more pricey.

 

   

Senses:

Meh'kats are known for their sharp eyesight, able to view several miles far without having any problems in spotting possible prey. As such they can spot a human before the human will be able to spot them, giving them a great advantage in regards to their own defensive nature. While their eyesight is the biggest aspect Meh'kats are also having fairly good ears and a good smell, often using those to find hiding prey.

 

   

Behaviour:

Like most other animals Meh'kats have a clear tendency to dwell in areas with near to no civilization and place with plenty of food and possible breeding grounds. Like Unicorns and other bigger animals the Meh'kats are known to adapt to climate and environment fairly easy, allowing them to live in jungles, icy mountains or even in desert-like areas without any bigger problems. Many people are also aware that Meh'kats move in large groups, often consisting of those born at the same time in the same breeding grounds. Due to the same age they are known to work with one another, making hunting a lot easier for them

 

Due to their nature Meh'kats are known to be highly defensive animals, protecting their horst and often attacking intruders. As such many people are trying to avoid the habitat of the Meh'kats, mostly to avoid getting attacked by those majestic beasts.

   

 

Breeding:
Meh'kats are known to have no clear leader within their own rows, often allowing free breeding within their own groups. Normally a female Meh'kat is laying around three to four eggs and stays around her nest, protecting it against any attacker, until all of the eggs are hatched and the newborns are able to leave the nest on their own.


 

Taming:
Meh'kats are known to be near to impossible to tame. Full grown Meh'kats can only be tamed by Druids and after the Druid created a strong enough bound with the Meh'kat, yet, even than the Druid is in permanent danger of being attacked or even killed by the Meh'kat before the bound was created.

 

The most common way to tame a Meh'kat is to steal one of their eggs and to imprint on the newborn Meh'kat, yet, entering a Meh'kat horst is often similar to suicide, since the angry mothers won’t hesitate to protect their eggs with everything they got. As such stealing a Meh'kat egg requires intense knowledge about the animal and it’s breeding habits, mostly when the mother will leave the eggs alone (Example: Food gathering) or when the mother will fall asleep.

 

   

Food Gathering:

Meh'kats are always using their flying advantage to gather food. They are known to fly over their prey, just to fall down on top of it or to strike it from above. Some Meh'kats even learned to grab their prey, fly up into the sky and drop their prey, killing the food source with the impact on the ground. Most commonly, the Meh'kats hunt in groups, allowing them to catch bigger preys and to transport more food back to their homes. This is mostly to preserve and burry food for later times, like the winter or times with less food around.

   


 

Origin:

 

Meh'kats are known to be representative in most of the realms, dating back to Aegis and Asulon. As such it is often stated that Meh'kats are able to sense danger and travel to a new realm on their own, either to protect themselves or their family's. The exact origin of the Meh'kats is, however, not known, only the simple fact that they were representative in all realms up to Atlas. Even on Atlas Meh'kats can still be found at several locations, allowing challenging adventurers to try and tame them.

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The Lore-Team can hold this Lore until they have finished their rework/changes, as stated in the Lore-Announcement Pt. 2 ( "This is due to us focusing on fixing up our existing lore (which we’ve already started and are currently working with the admins to set up a solid foundation for things, more will be talked about regarding that in the next monthly update thread). The hold on new lore will last for a few months. ")!

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Thank you for submitting your piece. Due to the changes we are making to the creature index, which will be unveiled this weekend, this is being put on hold but is one of the first in line to be reviewed once we make the announcement.

 

Edit: After reviewing the piece, it has been denied. The creature itself was fine until the whole “taming” part. Druids don’t “tame” they befriend, as per their magic and red lines. And even if it was changed to befriending, having a large creature like this that only helps out a druid is not balanced. If you remove the taming portion and make it so that it’s not something only a specific group can have in their midst, it will probably be accepted.

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