Lur Wolf

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Lur Wolf
Area: Deserts
Diet:: Carnivore
Size: Horse sized
Hostility Hostile
Tameable?: Only tameable by the Lur clan
Note: Players can play this creature freely on the server, although it is not common to see them.

The Lur Wolf is a beast of massive proportions, much bigger than their smaller cousins, the wolf. Measuring almost 9 feet tall when standing on its back paws. Their teeth seem to be as big as a small dagger and just as sharp as one. Some are said to even pierce a suit of iron plate with a single bite. The animals claws can easily carve through flesh and rip it to shreds. A pack of over 4 wolves can easily take down any animal even the huge Jabbernacks can be hunted by these beasts The wolves seem to have taken residence in the territory North of the War Nation’s Capital, using it as hunting grounds most likely. Even from a good distance away of their territory you can hear the howls of these animals, as if their stalking you from far away. Beware that if you go into their land alone you will become their prey.

Origin and Behaviour

Lur Wolves get their names from the Lur clan, the only clan which can tame these creatures. Each Lur has his own wolf for his whole life and that is it. When a Lur cub (child) completes his first year he is given his wolf, and most of the times the wolf will be much larger then the cub. The cub and the wolf will then be left in the woods near the Lur lands and will stay there for 4 days and must hunt to live and survive. This forms a pact between wolf and rider. Also if the parents of the cub are killed in war, the wolf will raise the cub like its own. This ofter makes a stronger and more savage orc then usual. Other legends are that the orcs from the extinct Vorn clan a sub clan of Lur leave their cubs to be raised on purpose by wolfs so the cub grows to becomes as savage as possible.

The Lur Wolves almost saw the end of their kind during the clan wars with the massacre of San’lur when more then half of all Lurs died and so did many of their wolves. The surviving wolves from the massacre seemed to crave for vengeance for their fallen riders and stalked the Dom lines during the rest of the clan wars. The wolves who still had a rider almost all died during the suicidal assault of San’Dom which destroyed the last stronghold of the Dom clan. But the beasts continue to live thanks to the efforts of Craotor’lur and other missing Lurs they have reproduce and the pack still seems to be living strong.

The current pack is almost all made up from cubs of Craotor’lur’s wolf Skar, a large black Lur wolf. Skar is the oldest of the wolfs with reports of him and Craotor coming all the way back from the Clan Wars almost 400 years ago his name comes from the scar he had when Craotor first found him,it goes from his right eye to it’s jaw. But despite being the oldest he is not the biggest in any way. The wolf of Urak’lur is one of the few that is not a cub of Skar and definitely the strongest and biggest of them all, measuring almost 11 feet.Urak’lur’s relatives inside the Lur clan seem to have an even bigger affinity with the giant creatures. Their wolfs are always bigger and more ferocious then any other. It may be because of the ancient founder of Urak’lur’s lineage Kurak the Wolf of Lur that first brought the wolfs to Lur.

Abilities

Aside from the Lur Wolves size and killing capacities the most interesting thing about them is that they can be ridden by only one kind of orc and unlike other mounts they will only be mounted by a single master through its whole life. The orcs that ride these beasts are the ones of the Lur clan. They appear to have a special bond with them and often treat the wolfs like they are their friends and family. While mounted these wolves run at incredible speeds rivaling the speed of a horse and sometimes surpassing it. The Lur’s don’t only use them for riding and hunting but also in battles. Once in battles they obey solely to their riders. Used as cavalry like the humans use their horses, used for flanking and breaking enemy lines but the wolves seem to enjoy hunting down routing enemies the most. After battles and during them they will be seen with their fur stained with blood and jaws filled with heavily gnawed and chewed meat and sometimes bits and pieces of armor.

Redlines

  • Can only be ridden by an orc of the Lur clan

Mechanics

  • Can be mechanically represented by a wolf or a horse.