#macouse

[yzegem]

Some domesticated animals of the world.

Here's the lore for the yakor camel and ogrehounds and here's it for the dragon (wich is not domesticated, I added it for scale and is probably about to destroy that whole scouting platoon)

The galloping bull is species inspired by eggysodon wich is used for milk, meat, leather and as a beast of burden.

The macouse is a large and intelligent herbivore inspired by paraceratherium and similar in behaviour to earth's asian elephant. It's used as a moving fortress and its psychological factor against troops that have never seen such a beast cannot be underestimated. On the macouse's flank there is a banner depicting an ogre. It's known that the Sun Empire feeds prisioners of war to captive ogres in colliseum-like spectacles so this image its not only horrifying but also a ghostly remider to enemy troops of their likely demise.

Out of war, tamed macouses are used for transportation as they can traverse the dense forests/jungles and flooded areas of the Helicas penninsula (core territory of the Sun Empire) during the wet season.

This great dragon resembles the average size of the species. Even though they can get way bigger than this, they are probably the most dangerous at this size, because of their speed and also because they will attack humans for food very often. An elder dragon of this size would rarely or even never fly, and only for short fights. It would probably feed on prey hunted by other carnivores (including younger dragons) and also hunting itself, since they can actually run pretty fast. Dragons are surprisingly good swimmers and some hunt as ambush predators similar to crocodiles. Dragons females are the most fertile during this late stage of life.