The creature seemed to hound his every step and evade any form of examination at a distance.
Impossible to tame, foolhardy to ride, hazardous to incense, Grand Crestas permeate all aspects of Thangien culture from combat techniques, to architecture, to mythology.
From that day on both superpowers agreed to a silent truce that they not come to blows while in sight of each other for fear of drawing even more stalkers, who might find them as tempting a meal as the unfortunate four-legged life-form...
How this six-limbed killer came into existence and how it endured up until present remains a mystery few are willing to brave either the heat or the Stalkers' hunger to plumb.
Perhaps the wing served as thermoregulation, or a courtship display. In any case, they are thought to have died out well over ten thousand years ago since there are no depictions of them in any artwork found in the Northern Ring.
Crestas view gherfen as a nuisance, but the monkeys hate the "helmed hawks" with bitter ferocity.
