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|- style="background:navy; color: white;"
|colspan="2"|'''Ground Shank'''
|-
|colspan="2"|[[File:GroundShank.png|300px]]
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|align="right"|'''Type'''|| Large Herbivore
|-
|align="right"|'''Number'''
|style="background: #eeeeee;"| 10-100 herd
|-
|align="right"|'''Move'''|| Fast (90m/turn, 25km/hour)
|-
|align="right"|'''IM/RS'''
|style="background: #eeeeee;"| +5/45
|-
|align="right"|'''Stamina'''|| 80
|-
|align="right"|'''Attack'''
|style="background: #eeeeee;"| 45
|-
|align="right"|'''Damage'''|| 1d10 nip
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|align="right"|'''Special Attack'''
|style="background: #eeeeee;"| a herd can stampede for 10d10
damage (half if RS avoidance roll)
|-
|align="right"|'''Special Defense'''|| None
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|align="right"|'''Native World'''
|style="background: #eeeeee;"| Hentz, plains
|}

Ground shanks are large creatures
with soft fur covering their bodies. Their coloration
varies dramatically, but all possess striped rings
around their ankles of dark color – typically dark brown
or black. A series of spots covers their necks and
backs, to help camouflage them in tall fields of
drygrass in which they graze. The long necks of the
shank can reach low trees for additional nutrients, and
they are fond of urishanuts that grow naturally
throughout Hentz.

These creatures have been the Yazirian premier beast
of burden since the beginning of the species’ existence.
It originated on Waloo (Pavor) and was transplanted to

Today, ground shanks numbers are so high that
ambrikahns had to be introduced to keep their
numbers in check. Because of how plentiful they are,
the cost of a ground shank is now under 100 Credits.

The ground shank had an aerial cousin, the air shank,
that seemed identical other than the ringed markings
around the ankles and tail (and of course, wings). The
air shank was hunted to extinction for food and leather
long ago.

Shanks alone are pretty harmless. They can nip at
their enemies with their small teeth, but the strength
of their jaws is designed to chew grass, not meat and
bone. But in a herd, their numbers can be spurred to
stampede by fire or proximity of a predator. A living
being caught in a stampede takes 10d10 damage, but
a successful Reaction Speed check will cut that damage
in half (round in favor of the character).
Hentz during the relocation.

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Terl obar at 20:05, 10 March 2010

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