Hill Glaciants
Hill glaciants combine the sure-footedness of a goat with the ferocity of a tiger (and the body-shape of a tadpole). Anyone visiting the Yelp Mountains will see these beasties on distant rock faces - traversing the most minimal of footholds on the most vertical of cliffs. They may also see one flanking them from behind. They won't see this for long, however, as the glaciants will promptly kick them to death.
On Tumultia, most nations have eradicated monsters. You still get them in places like the Yelps, as hunting them appeals to tourists. It also gives the locals something to do/kill.
Despite having the freedom to hunt hill glaciants, most adventurers avoid them. They're huge, for a start, with each one standing about 15ft tall. They're also famously ferocious - a trait they combine with the ability to kick a person's head clean off their shoulders (and the jaw strength to bite through stone).
On top of all this, it's difficult to fight them on an even footing on their home turf. The nimble hill glaciants can run up vertical walls and sprint across ice. This makes fighting them more difficult than giving a tiger an unwanted bath.
Partly the hill glaciants' mastery of their environment comes from their ability to use frost magick. Their big, icy beards form as a result of this skill. Said beards usually have a flow to them, but glaciants can harden them into pure ice when needed. This allows them to use their beards as head-stands when sleeping.
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| Hill Glaciant by Zuza Gruzlewska |
On Tumultia, most nations have eradicated monsters. You still get them in places like the Yelps, as hunting them appeals to tourists. It also gives the locals something to do/kill.
Despite having the freedom to hunt hill glaciants, most adventurers avoid them. They're huge, for a start, with each one standing about 15ft tall. They're also famously ferocious - a trait they combine with the ability to kick a person's head clean off their shoulders (and the jaw strength to bite through stone).
On top of all this, it's difficult to fight them on an even footing on their home turf. The nimble hill glaciants can run up vertical walls and sprint across ice. This makes fighting them more difficult than giving a tiger an unwanted bath.
Partly the hill glaciants' mastery of their environment comes from their ability to use frost magick. Their big, icy beards form as a result of this skill. Said beards usually have a flow to them, but glaciants can harden them into pure ice when needed. This allows them to use their beards as head-stands when sleeping.
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- Hill glaciants are related to the much larger (and now extinct) 'mountain glaciants'.
- Although silent more often than not, when hill glaciants do make a noise they go: "BAAAAA!"
- A group of hill glaciants are collectively known as a 'kicking'.
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| Mountain glaciant by Zuza Gruzlewska |
Creation Notes
The glaciants will feature in my upcoming book The Fame Eaters. I didn't really know what they'd look like when I started drawing them. Somehow I ended up with a blue meatball with a beard, tail, and goat legs.
Possibly I meant to come back and redesign them at some point?
Either way, I quite like them! I've always felt terrified by the thought of mountain goats climbing up sheers rock faces - presumably because the thought of falling off a mountain is horrible. Hill glaciants combine that terrifying, goaty goodness with some genuine menace.
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| Just live somewhere flat for god's sake! |
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