Gray render

A gray render is a dangerous predator found in swampy wilderness areas.

Basic Information

Anatomy

With dense muscles and thick bones, gray renders are hulking, powerful masses. They walk on two feet, but they are hunched over, and their extra long arms drag along the ground. Even with such a posture, they reach about nine feet tall. Their broad shoulders are four feet across.
A gray render's body is hairless. They have sharp claws on their hands and powerful jaws full of black teeth. Perhaps most unique is a render's eyes; it had six of them. They are small and yellow-colored and are in two rows along its sloped forehead.

Genetics and Reproduction

They reproduce asexually. They produce a single offspring, which develops in a pocket or pouch in the adult render's body. When the new render reaches a certain age, it departs from its parent and has to live on its own.

Dietary Needs and Habits

When hunting, gray renders sometimes wait to spring a trap. Once they engage in combat, they attack to kill, working themselves into a thoughtless rampage of fearless destruction.

Civilization and Culture

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Gray renders are never found in groups of their kind. However, they often accompany other creatures, both animals and more intelligent races, in a protective role. Scholars can't explain this strange behavior from an otherwise aggressive monster, but gray renders seem to "adopt" these other creatures, whether desired or not. Such a protecting render will even bring freshly killed meat to its charges. Even if those being protected attack the render, it will simply retreat and come back later; it would never cause harm to such creatures willfully.
Sometimes, other predators or scavengers will follow behind gray renders to take the scraps left behind by its path of destruction.