Fiends

These great beasts are some of the most feared in the whole world, and are among the most frequent on monster hunter contracts. This is due to their violent nature and taste for the flesh of mortals.

Appearance

They are large beasts nearing the size of elephants, with the horns resembling those of a moose, and the bodies resembling large felines. Most lethal are their long, curved claws.
Their heads resemble those of a bull, with much smaller noses, and the eyes of a goat, and large, sharp teeth, made for ripping into flesh and crushing bones.
Some of them even sport large black manes, extending from their head, down their neck, and onto their back.

All of them have fur concentrated on their backs, colored black or grey.

Territory

They had once ruled all of the world's biomes, but now they are mostly found in the forests. They are highly territorial and will defend their hunting grounds to the death, from each other as well as from other predators, especially the direwolf, with whom they are often forced to share hunting grounds.

Anatomy and Mating Habits

They give live birth, their young do not suckle, and they immediately start eating meat. Fiends are solitary and will only come together to mate or fight over territory. Often, a male's territory will overlap with several females, but if the territory of two males overlaps, there will be a fight, and one of them will probably die.

It is because of this that fiend mothers have to take care of their babies by themselves, especially because a male fiend will kill any young that aren't his. There is little the females can do about this, other than attempt to fight back. Males are bigger than females, though, and this is often a one-sided battle. If females reject their male, they are either killed or driven from the male's territory.