Brown Beast

Monster Summary

• Size: Elephant - standing between 11 to 13 feet tall and weighing between two and a half to three tons (largest recorded beast stood at 20 feet)
• Motivation/Temperament: Aggressively territorial in youth, will become slothful and more stationary with age
• Preferred Environment: Plains (grazes in the plains in southern Anock and through the Wildlands)
• Prevalence: Few
• Danger Level: A large group or town could easily be in danger if a brown beast got close enough - their favorite snack is sentient beings that harbor lots of congruence
• Attack Description: Claws; Pouncing and Stomping; Giant Stature
• Monster Core Size and Appearance: Mature brown beasts have golf-ball sized cores with a marbled effect in shades ranging from white to taupe to chocolate brown, but they can grow in size depending on how old the brown beast is and how long they’ve been in hibernation.

The fearsome “brown beast” makes its home in the plains between Caliharah, Karg, and Alvania, where it roams looking for concentrated areas of congruence. To a casual observer, this hulking behemoth, standing between 11 and 13 feet tall and weighing between two and a half and three tons, has an omnivorous diet. It can survive for months at a time by grazing on the windswept grasses, or by pouncing into the earth to eat some of the smaller vermin beneath the ground, but its favorite diet is that of sentient races. A brown beast has evolved to feed off of the congruence around it, which is why those who are more susceptible to being aware of congruence are targeted by them more frequently, as sentient beings are hubs of congruence.

Brown Beast’s Features

The brown beast has four trunk-like legs, supporting cat-like paws with claws that reach six inches long. Their back legs are powerful and can support the creature’s full weight for when it offers a threat display by standing on its hind legs, but the forelegs are indeed the more impressive of the two sets. Built for pouncing into the earth, their shoulders have reached truly monstrous levels of muscle, and with a pounce or stomp can quickly destroy layers of earth with ease. Their jaw is slightly longer, and they have wide-brimmed tusks jutting from their muzzle, but also from their jawline, both of which are used to shovel and burrow into the dirt. With their propensity for digging, most brown beast lairs can be found underground.(Fun stories of settlements being built over a hibernating brown beast)

Brown Beast’s Socialization

Brown beasts are typically solitary creatures, as their fiercely territorial nature lends itself well to bloody fights with their only competition, other brown beasts. Their hunting grounds are vast and prone to changing very little. The only time brown beasts interact willingly with each other is when they enter estrus, after which the pair will enter a state of hibernation, before spawning a newly born brown beast, about half the size of their progenitor. It spends the next year following the parent of its sex around, before wandering off on its own, and will reach maturity in 10 years.

Hibernation & Temperament

Every 3 years, a brown beast enters a year-long period of hibernation, where it takes the congruence it has consumed and proceeds to calcify the material inside of its body. Brown beasts so far have yet to be recorded using congruence in any meaningful way besides storing it within themselves. As a brown beast matures and continues eating, their size continues to grow, but this is in contrast to their personality changing. As they reach an elderly age, their size can reach 16 to 18 feet(The largest recorded brown beast was well over 20 feet), they eventually become very slothful and stationary, as opposed to their greatly territorial disposition when they are juvenile and mature. They hibernate more, and eventually enter a state of permanent hibernation, where they subsist completely off of the congruence cores in their body, only rousing when mortally threatened.

Brown beasts can seemingly live indefinitely, but their maturity range is 0-1 infant, 1-5 juvenile, 5-40 adult, 40-70 old,70+ ancient. Mature brown beasts have golf-ball sized cores with a marbled effect in shades ranging from white to taupe to chocolate brown, but they can grow in size depending on how old the brown beast is and how long they’ve been in hibernation.

The Kitteri

The kitteri are hybrid beings that live in close-knit communities centered around worship and reverence of the Brown Beasts.The Brown Beasts, despite having an affinity for snacking on congruence, tends to pass on these creatures, as it seems that there is a modicum amount of communication possible between them, although sometimes a snackrifice or two is called on every so often. The kitteri never seem to begrudge their lot when serving under a particularly hungry Brown Beast, and in fact many take such a loss to be the highest honor for them. The Brown Beasts recognize these creatures as little more than an annoyance at worst, most often as a portable fridge, but at best they enjoy the company of these bizarre creatures as much as a mother grizzly would her own cubs. In rare circumstances, a Brown Beast will even leave the nurture and raising of their own cubs to its kitteri swarm.