Taruk (5e Creature)
Taruk[edit]
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Large beast, unaligned Armor Class 16
Senses passive Perception 11
Bear Hug. The taruk has advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made to initiate a grapple. Fossorial. The taruk has advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made to dig. Keen Smell. The taruk has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell. Relentless (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the taruk takes 20 damage or less that would reduce it to 0 hit points, it is reduced to 1 hit point instead. Thick Skin. If a melee attack deals less than 15 damage to the taruk, the damage is reduced to 5. Ultraviolet Dampened. Creatures with Keen Sight roll Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see a taruk with disadvantage and the taruk has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide from them. ACTIONSMultiattack. The taruk makes three claw attacks. It may substitute two claw attacks for one bite or slam attack, but can't make use them against the same target. Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) piercing damage. Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) slashing damage. Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5) bludgeoning damage. REACTIONSUnbridled Fury. In response to being hit by a melee attack, the taruk can make one melee weapon attack with advantage against the attacker. |
Though the mainland hukolgur is the most impressive species, they are not alone. There are several other species, though all evolved from the mainland Arvelith population 1.5 million years ago, at the end of the Anchored Period. At the time, the coast of Qajar was much wider and had a lush lowland forest drawing in many new beasts, which then spread to islands now much further away due to high modern sea levels. With their keen sense of smell, hukolgur and many other sloth species detected feeding opportunities to the south and swam out to the singular land mass that is now modern day Qadan, Khalren, the Ring, and the rest of the Khalen islands. While they were hunted to extinction since in Qadan and many other islands in the Great Khalin Sea, Khalren and neighboring islands host a relict of these dwarf hukolgur, called taruk (Tectospelaea kalrenensis "Cave builder from Khalren") by Khalin. This population, although largely hunted to extinction in the coastal regions near settlements like the Khalren tuga, they have a fairly robust population in the highlands and like tuga are among the most common large animals on the island. These sloths aren't much larger than bear sloths. |
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