(BearOwl )
(Picture reference including credit to artist)
(pisture by TheKidIsGreen on deviantart. http://thekidisgreen.deviantart.com/art/Reverse-Owlbear-281093890)
(http://jamesmakesgames.com/2014/08/17/fing-majestic/10592890_10101497702090408_7518521319174603725_n/)
Habitat:
The BearOwl is most commonly found in forests, but can appear living in the mountains and tundra. The BearOwl will make a nest high up in a tree to call its home.The BearOwl may also chose to live in a tree hole. There nests are made from twigs, grass, and other plant material.
Size:
The BearOwl is a small and fragile creature. A baby BearOwl is about the size of a pigeon. An adult BearOwl averages at about a foot and a half in height. The average weight of an BearOwl is 10 pounds.
Diet:
The BearOwl is a carnivorous creature. It likes to feast on smaller creatures and fish that it pucks from rivers and streams. If desperate for food the BearOwl will attempt to take on larger prey such as wolves, men or even OwlBears.
Temperament:
The BearOwl is typically a docile and harmless creature unless its hunting or being provoked. However the BearOwl is extremely territorial and will attack any creature on site that comes near its nest.
Brief summary of the creature
The BearOwl is a small creature with the feathered body of an Owl and the head of a Bear. Despite its awkward appearance, its combination of Owl and Bear make it a ruthless killing machine when angered. The owl like body of the BearOwl allows it the swift mobility of flight. Its wingspan reaching that of 5 feet. Its bear like head allows has powerful jaws and thick skull allow it a strong biting power to quickly kill any prey stuck between its jaws. The BearOwl would grab its prey with its sharp claws before bringings its jaws down on the prey's head.
Characteristic: (Behaviour, Reproduction, Gathering food)
When it is not hunting or defending its nest/ territory from intruders the BearOwl is a relatively docile creature, that is provided that you aren't stupid enough to purposely approach one. The BearOwl is a nocturnal creature. It sleeps during the day and likes to sore though the skies at night. The BearOwl has a superior sense of hearing, If asleep and someone approached and perhaps stepped on a branch, the BearOwl would wake and attack the person or thing approaching. The BearOwl also has great nightvision, used for spotting prey during the moonless nights.
The mating procedures of the BearOwl are that of a strange one. For a female BearOwl to determine her mate during the mating seasons, Males would compete by bringing her larger and larger prey, (a great danger to animals living near BearOwl nests) The BearOwl that survives and brings the largest catch to the female becomes its mate. After finding a mate, the BearOwl will lay eggs similar to that of a standard owl. The newborns gestate for around 24 days before hatching. A Female BearOwl will lay up to 12 eggs per mating season.
The average lifespan of a BearOwl is 25 years old. The BearOwl is mature enough to mate at the age of 3. Upon being hatched the BearOwl is blind for the first 3 weeks of its life, by its 6th week of life the BearOwl would have learned how to move about the nest. By its 12 week the baby will have learned how to fly. After 6 months of living in the nest, the baby BearOwl will have left the nest to make its own. BearOwls hatch from their eggs by using their tiny claws to pick at the egg shell over the course of 3 days
Origin:
Most people believe that one day the very same Archmage who mistakenly created the OwlBear got very drunk and decided to experiment with the forces and nature of life. Its result was the cross bread of an Bear and an Owl, giving us the BearOwl. It is thought that this powerful Archmage created the BearOwl before mistakenly creating the OwlBears that ended her life.
Weaknesses:
Due to the small frame and frail structure of an Owl, the BearOwls body can easily take substantial damage to the bones and organs if struck hard enough. Although being a wise creature, the BearOwl will defend its territory and children at all costs even if it means loosing its life.
LM Approval Required:
No
If playable, what are redlines?
Tragically the Bearowl should remain unplayable as the strength of these winged beast of doom is too powerful for the everyday RP’er