Rare Monsters

  The Gowrow is a fearsome critter from Arkansas. It's considered a species, rather than one individual. There exists multiple different stories of hunters and locals defeating a troublesome gowrow by differing means and in different locations. It's also said that the females carry their soft shelled eggs around in a throat pouch, implying a breeding population. The gowrows are giant reptilian monsters. They're 20 feet long from snout to tail and resemble giant lizards or wingless dragons. Gowrows are said to have massive jaws with even larger tusks, either like those of a hippopotamus or a wild boar. They have a row of bony spikes down their backs and long reptilian tails that end in a blade or a spike which they can use as a weapon. Gowrows have strong front arms which they can use to uproot entire trees and dig through solid rock. The feet are usually, but not always, webbed and and the Gowrow is considered a good swimmer. Besides these qualities, the over all body shap...

  Everyone has heard about qilins. Although fewer people realize that the qilin is not as unicorn like as it is typically depicted. The qilin was originally depicted with two horns before comparisons between it and western unicorns were made. However there are other one horned beasts in Chinese mythology, several in fact. One being the luduan, which shares many aspects with both qilin and unicorns, and had a single horn before western influence. Written descriptions of luduan depict it as deer like, green in color and having a single antler or horn. Sculptural depictions instead show the luduan as a cat like creature with paws. Legends about the luduan say it could run 18 000 li in a day (7000 km), speak every known language and detect the truthfulness of a speaker. The luduan was a peaceful creature who hated violence in any form. Accounts by Buddhist monk, Yelu Chucai say the luduan appeared before Genghis Khan and convinced him to abandon his conquest in India. Although it's ...