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Animals and Monsters As Guards

Insolent Lad

Maester
There's one more that's a true beast... You'd need a red shirt to set up a demonstration though. Weasels are known to go through an animal's eye socket to eat its brains. There's a surprise factor because you think of weasels less as being scary and more as kind of a sleazy joke. But their spry fast bodies, plus choice of attack, creates a terrifying shock value.
Weasels are fearsome. That's why the dragons of my primary world are essentially giant weasels. Intelligent, flying, giant weasels. With the typical scent glands and ability to spray of many of their tribe.
 

ShadeZ

Maester
Flying purple kittens so thick the sky darkens.
Oh I was actually looking for a way to make a really unusual pixie. Fae in my books are usually called pixies by humans who dont know the difference. Pixies are small, winged, not particularly smart and often glow and are aggressive. Calling a fae a pixie is not unlike calling a human a bug.
 

Morgoth_69

Dreamer
I've participated in joint stories where one of the subgenres was anthropomorphism, and one of the scariest characters I can remember was a gate guard. A big black bear with scars on his face and wielding a double-edged axe, which imposed a lot of respect.
 

Aldarion

Archmage
What sort of animal based guards would you find to be the scariest and most intimidating? Assuming human or higher intelligence on all of them. Currently thinking of going with large magic weilding dog/wolf monsters as guards but I wanted to get alternative ideas.

Bears, especially polar bears. Bulls. Any African large game, but especially hippos and elephants.
 
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