Fauna Request
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Name:
Most Commonly Called: Fire Bull
Habitat: Fire Planes
Threat: High/Very High
Notable Abilities:
♦ Headbutting, Kicking, & Charging: Much like any other bull, these creatures can attack in groups or individually using a mixture of charging and kicking. However, these attacks come with second and third degree burns and blistering skin.
♦ Boiling Aura: Even when standing around this creature one can feel the heat pouring off of it. Water magic is essentially useless, and will often evaporate away as steam when coming into contact with the creature directly. However, the sheer heat emanating from it can be felt from up to twenty feet away. Like standing next to a volcano or inside a dangerously hot sauna, creatures not from the plane of fire would struggle immensely to simply breathe in it's vicinity, and spending too long within it's 20 foot heat aura will cause ones blood to boil and kill whoever is near it. It is advised that anyone wishing to kill it should do so quickly, and from far away, or have some way to control/redirect heat or fire to avoid these affects.
♦ Volcanic Spikes: Ready to erupt at a moments notice, the spikes lining the back of this creature can harden or soften to regulate the creatures heat and energy exertion. Besides this survival ability, the spikes are also able to be blasted off it's back like volcanoes themselves and send the shrapnel exploding out around it as pieces of molten lava and hardened metal. This is usually only used as a last resort, though, as the pressure inside itself necessary to burst them outward takes up the last of it's fighting ability. To recover it's spines can take months or even years, during which time it is left at it's most vulnerable.
♦ Hot To the Touch: Touching this creature bare handed is asking to get burned. It's spines are hot enough to boil blood and melt most metals, and it's horns and skin is hot enough to give up to third degree burns if one remains in contact long enough.
Description: Adult Fire Bulls stand at a massive twelve feet tall including their spikes and horns. While normally heard animals, the leader has been known to stray from it's pack when defending it and chase down any would be threats until their demise.
Unlike their physical plane counterparts, male and female bulls both have horns. The distinction between males and females is visible by the color and size- males have much longer, thicker horns with a lighter color whereas females tend to have thinner, shorter horns with a darker color sometimes even black. The color of these horns changes over time for the females, starting at a medium grey or brown and darkening with each year they live. Though, as a fire-planes creature, their lives are dictated by the life of fire itself and tend to live long past fifty years old unless killed before then. While they are normally docile towards their own herd, the fire bull is fiercely territorial. Entire herds have been known to fight to the death in order to claim territory, though usually only during mating season (Glade-Searing) when their aggression are at their peak.
Like one would assume, the diet of a Fire Bull is fire! They graze upon molten rock and fire straw, and drink from active volcanoes as if it were water.
There have only been a few people who have heard of such creatures, and even less who've seen them and lived to tell the tale. Perhaps those people are no longer alive- but one thing is for certain. If you see one- pray you can outrun it, because attacking this creature means drawing it's blood, and like any could guess it's blood is an oozing, bubbling lava that sets all around it on fire.
However, without prize they would not be as known as they are. Should one successfully kill a Fire Bull, the rewards are great. Upon dying their bodies begin to deconstruct, melt, and harden, morphing before crumbling into condensed balls of molten rock. When its essence finally dies, in it's place a pile of Magmatyte, Pyrolyth, rough diamonds, and volcanic rock remains. The purity and quantity of these stones varies seemingly randomly, though most only find a handful of dragonshards and diamonds left behind.
