Jungle Renkir (Basic Lore)

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Jungle Renkir (CR 16)

Jungle Renkir
Pure Evil - Huge - Magical Beast
Renkirs are huge monsters with a vague resemblance to a great ape, although much larger and furless, being covered with thick, rigid, leathery hide. Their great-fanged heads and huge maws are hairless, and they have hugely muscular, elongated arms, allowing them to move on all fours when they want to move quickly, though they often walk upright on their hind legs for a better field of view. Their massive arms end in vast and surprisingly dextrous gripping hands, equipped with seriously nasty claws. They are not at all similar to humanoids in appearance, looking like a terrible hybrid of an ape and a crocodile, and have no relation to giants.

Renkir hide is well known for its toughness, and in battle they are hard to put down, to the point that settlements in territory haunted by renkir packs will often have small siege weapons available to aid in repelling the occasional hungry pack.

Renkirs are aggressive, destructive, and cagey pack hunters, and while no one could accuse them of being smart, they are not without cunning. They delight in hurling victims around the battlefield, exhibiting a degree of cruelty and delight in their victims that would put most housecats to shame. They are frequently hostile to creatures that cross their path, and seem to enjoy killing, even when they have recently fed. Renkirs tend to roam, rather than holding particular territory, menacing the lands they travel through.

Jungle Renkirs have even longer arms and stronger hands than most Renkirs, and prefer living in large forests, where they clamber about with astonishing speed and grace for their vast bulk. That said, Jungle Renkirs are adaptable creatures, and have been found in ruins and cave systems, and even roaming about the tall spires of abandoned cities (and occasionally even an inhabited one).