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As promised, nira final design =D
I think all I've said about them before is that they're kinda like wombats. That's what I had in mind designing the things, anyway. Specifically Fatso the fat-arsed wombat =3
Anyway, yes, niras. The helmet is really bloody solid, kinda like the helmet on a cassowary. If you get one of them charging at you at full pelt, you'd be lucky to escape with just a broken leg. Chances are your bone would shatter. Fun times. They're pretty docile animals tho, preferring to run rather than attack. They're very fast over short distances.
Generally what they do when faced by something that's going to kill them, is run down one of their burrows and block the entrance with their arse. Since they have incredibly tough skin, whatever it is that's chasing will give up on the rear end and try and climb up over them to the fleshier neck area, at which point the nira extends its back legs and crunches the enemy's skull. Go nira go =D
I stole that from wombats too. Hah.
From the helmet, you can prolly see they don't have ears. Silly creatures are stone deaf, so they've got a highly tuned sense of smell to counter this.
Erm... oh yeah, the niras are the animals Raykinians use the hydes of to make their armour, since it's so damn tough. I think that's about it.
I think all I've said about them before is that they're kinda like wombats. That's what I had in mind designing the things, anyway. Specifically Fatso the fat-arsed wombat =3
Anyway, yes, niras. The helmet is really bloody solid, kinda like the helmet on a cassowary. If you get one of them charging at you at full pelt, you'd be lucky to escape with just a broken leg. Chances are your bone would shatter. Fun times. They're pretty docile animals tho, preferring to run rather than attack. They're very fast over short distances.
Generally what they do when faced by something that's going to kill them, is run down one of their burrows and block the entrance with their arse. Since they have incredibly tough skin, whatever it is that's chasing will give up on the rear end and try and climb up over them to the fleshier neck area, at which point the nira extends its back legs and crunches the enemy's skull. Go nira go =D
I stole that from wombats too. Hah.
From the helmet, you can prolly see they don't have ears. Silly creatures are stone deaf, so they've got a highly tuned sense of smell to counter this.
Erm... oh yeah, the niras are the animals Raykinians use the hydes of to make their armour, since it's so damn tough. I think that's about it.