Ape

How it fights

A brute fights the way a falling tree fights. Once it is coming the only question is where you are standing. It gives ground grudgingly and takes it back all at once, and it hits hard enough that a mistake is not a setback but the end of the conversation. There is no clever way through one. There is only whether you can take what it gives for as long as it takes to give more back.

Field notes

The great apes keep to the trees and the rock and come to the ground for water and quarrel. They are curious before they are angry, and the curiosity is the dangerous part: one will come close to look at a fire, a pack, a shining thing, and it does not know how strong it is. They beat the ground when they want a stranger gone and mean it. A troop's noise carries a long way and stops all at once when something is wrong.

Where it is met

Met in Quiet Shrine of Inner Sea, The First Ash, The Glass Reach and Sunhaven, by travellers of levels 15 to 35.

Known by these names

Known by these names: beast of the pack and grey drifting shape.

The roll

Under this kind stand four of the least sort, ten of the common sort, six tough, six elite, one champion and one worldboss, and one named: Narmir, the Right Hand of a beast-lord's range, besides one that lead without a name.