A shantak is large—as big as an elephant and Shantaks secrete a thin coating of slime as an weighing 2–4 tons—and though it is often considered insulator and protective coating, making their scales to be a bird, it has scales rather than feathers It has very slippery They have the ability to fly into and an elongated snout, making its head slightly resemble through space and other dimensions Their slime that of a horse or, more closely, an iguanodon It has protects against almost all environmental effects and four limbs—two legs and two wings—giving it a body is effective in mitigating many attacks arrangement rather like that of a wyvern Shantaks lay Even the bravest person typically has some slight eggs in excavated hollow places in mountain peaks and degree of trepidation while facing a shantak, which elsewhere to tend their young boosts the shantak’s effectiveness This often terrifies the shantak’s opponents, creating a feedback loop that empowers the birdlike monstrosity There are two situations in which the shantak’s empathic fear power does not work First, if the target is so powerful that it doesn’t fear the shantak in the first place, then there is no “foothold” for the empathic loop to get started Secondly, if the prey creature is something that is incapable of fear but is able to cause fear, this sets up a negative feedback loop that weakens the shantak As a result, they avoid entities such as nightgaunts or undead Ecology Shantaks are omnivorous but need protein to breed, so they tend to prefer hunting prey Naturally empathic, their neural structure is focused on their prey’s emotions If their target feels fear, this stimulates and boosts the shantak’s abilities Naturally, they like to chase their prey down to induce the maximum amount of fear or panic before feeding Shantaks, as semi-intelligent creatures, cannot truly be domesticated, but they can be induced to work for a strong and evil master in return for the obvious considerations (such as terrified prey to toy with and then devour) 374