Sumowl


Rank: B+
Order: Aveoida
Height: 12’3”
Weight: 830 lbs

With its seeming state of tranquility and calm, combat prowess, and vague avian relation, the Sumowl has been an important symbol for Duhdorian spiritualists and martial arts masters for hundreds of years.

Being a key species in the Wuu-Dasu ecosystem, the Sumowl feed on harmful parasites and their method of traversing the canopy with powerful leaps helps to strengthen the Wuu-Dasu branches; a limb bearing the telltale scratch marks of a Sumowl as a sign that the limb is a trustworthy platform to build upon. Sumowls possess an uncanny natural sense of balance, as even in death their bodies will remain locked to a branch and stand upright for days.

While primarily consumers of fungus and insects, the Sumowl is an opportunistic predator, going down in the lower branches of the Wuu-Dasu and pouncing its incredible weight upon whatever poor animal that is below them; using their massive eyes to perfectly aim their strike, even in the dead of night, as they possess a very keen night vision.

Other then the massive Urangutar, the Sumowl is relatively safe in its Wuu-Dasu home and usually the only thing that kills a Sumowl on its turf is another Sumowl while engaging in one of their destructive and nasty brawls through the canopy.

Females will nest in shallow caves built in the crotches of branches during the nesting season, using the ravaged bits of wood to insulate and hide their eggs while they’re out gathering food and hunting. This contrast heavily with the males during the mating season, for a period of three months, Sumowl males will undergo a painful process in which their Nucleus will swell, causing their trademark fleshy fins to engorge and glow with KE. This causes them to brawl mercilessly amongst themselves, but eventually they will leave the Wuu-Dasu trees and migrate for miles around their Wuu-Dasu home, only to engage in mindless combat with any thing hapless enough to get in their way. It is believed that it helps to curb the painful swelling of their Nucleus and to “work-out” the increased amounts of hormones. The surviving males will then return to the Wuu-Dasu and mate with the remaining females. A veteran Sumowl will be riddled in scars and possess an unprecedented combat prowess, and the most ancient of Sumowl males will eventually no longer undergo this ritualistic process (But are impotent and unable to reproduce as a result) but become an almost Buddha-like being in their calm and spiritual peace that has made them the cultural symbol they are today.

Despite their importance, they’re a relatively mundane Kreature, possessing no offensive measures other then their great strength and powerful talons. It’s this mendacity that makes them unappealing to contemporary Tamers, but they commonly used by “Spiritualists” and Martial Artists for their symbolism and potential.


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Wanted to add another "Brawler" type Kreature to the Roster, so the Sumowl was mostly inspired by "Bahtel". Also wanted to tie him into the cultural side of Dimentaria and make more then just a giant bird-ape that punches stuff.

My description is probably a bit drawn out, but I hate not including details.