Pinerunner

Pinerunners are tall bipedal predators native to the frozen pines Oron'Hye. They stand over 213cm tall, with a pair of long legs and four thin, long arms. Their skin begins as a deep grey when small, and fades to a pale white as they reach maturity, with the largest (and rarest) members of their species standing over 275cm tall (As opposed to their usual 213cm) and bearing a snow-white coloration. Their feet are long, thin and have two clawed toes at the front and one at the back. These feet allow them to move easily over rocky flats or grasp onto bare branches, and when spread far apart from the rest of their limbs they serve as a way to divide the creatures weight over a large area, allowing them to move rapidly over the deep snows of the south.
Their long arms possess two flexible elbows, and end in hands with four long clawed fingers, all of which sit at the top-side of the hands. The fingers are strong enough to grasp onto the branches from which they hang waiting for prey to pass, and their curved claws make escape from their grasp near impossible. Pinerunners may spend over a year waiting for prey, and if possible will attempt to ambush it from above, moving from branch to branch. If they are seen they will chase down their enemies as food in their homelands is scarce, and they cannot afford to lose a meal.
The Pinerunners have long, skeletal heads, with large eyes dominated almost solely by black pupils, which shrink to nothing but pinpoints during the day as a means of countering the snows glare. Their sight is best in the dark, and light reflected by their eyes is a dirty orange-yellow. They have small, branchy antlers with sharpened tips, ideal for use as both camouflage and as goring weapons. Their eyes are sunken into their skulls, looking like black pits in their skeletal face.

Size:

213-275cm

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Abomination

Diet:

Meat (Scavenger)

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Native: Oron'Hye Introduced: West Tierdun Domesticated: N/A