[I liked the art, I liked the mechanics, but I didn’t like the name. So I figured I’d blend in a bit of the Nemean Lion. Why the Nemean Lion doesn’t have statistics when so many other Greek legendary creatures do is beyond me.]
Nemeos This
muscular beast is a maned lion the size of a horse. Its head is crowned with
two forward facing horns.
Nemeos, sometimes called “titan lions”, are bestial
and wicked monsters that embody the worst of natural predators. A nemeos
gladly hunts more than its share of game, and they prefer the taste of
intelligent, panicked meat above all others. A nemeos is often thought of as a
divine punishment, and indeed there is some evidence that suggests that they
have the blood of fiends or titans in their veins.
Nemeos are typically solitary, but do associate
with each other to mate and raise offspring. A nemeos female will give birth to
a small litter of 2-3 cubs, the largest and strongest of which typically kills
and eats its siblings. The parents then dote on the survivor and teach it the
ways of cruelty, frequently bringing back wounded prey to their dens for the
cub to practice on. Despite their lion-like appearance, there is no sexual
dimorphism in nemeos—both males and females have manes and horns.
Nemeos are native to Koll, where werelions idolize their strength and boundless cruelty. Nemeos occasionally deign to let werelions hunt alongside them, but the humanoids must be very careful; a wounded companion is as good a prey as any to these cruel felines.
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