Roc (Mount)

• Cost (Combat Trained): 930,000 gp

• Cost (Riding Trained): 465,000 gp

• Weight: 15,000 lbs.

Rocs are the largest known species of bird, and have been known to prey upon sized-huge animals, such as elephants, as meals, carrying them away to their mountaintop nests for consumption. Rocs have the appearance of truly enormous hawks, with patterned brown feathers, with lines of beige, white, and black mixed into their plumage. They are handsome, terrifying beasts that are always a shock to behold, as your mind tries to wrap around just how truly large these things are.

Rocs are Legend roles, which makes them considerably more difficult to control as a mount than creatures that do not have a role.

This mount grants its rider the following bonuses:

Mounted CR:	27
Size:	Gargantuan (can carry up to sized-Huge riders)
Intelligence:	4
Movement:	Walk 10 ft., Greater Flight 150 ft.
Bonus Damage: (if Combat Trained)	+5 bonus damage to all of the rider's melee attacks made while riding.
Carrying Capacity:	8,000 lbs.
Unlockable Special Abilities:

Mutual Respect

• Requires: 1 point(s) of CR
• Benefit: Over time, even the most monstrous of mounts can be taught to respect their rider, even if they never come to actually like them. When this special ability is unlocked, the penalty to Handle Animal and Ride checks caused by this mount's role (e.g. Threat, Heavy, etc.) is reduced by -5.

This special ability can be purchased more than once. Each time it is purchased, the penalty is increased by an additional -5. The penalty can never be reduced beyond 0 (i.e. it can never become a bonus).