Tarasque

Tarasques are a species of magical beasts that originate from France, but have now spread worldwide.

Appearance
Tarasques are chimerical in appearance, consisting of a mishmash of animal body parts. Specifically, an individual tarasque will possess a lion head, an ox-like body, with turtle shells on its backs, six, bear-like legs, and, to top it all off, a ;arge, scorpion-like tail.

Behavior
Behavior-wise, Tarasques are an interesting group. They behave similarly to lions, living in prides consisting of an alpha male, his harem, and their cubs. Cubs are hatched from eggs, which are usually laid in clutches of 1 to 6, though somewhere between 3 and 4 is the most common. Tarrasques are omnivorous by nature, needing both meat and plants to sustain themselves. Due to their mostly carnivorous makeup, they prefer meat over plants, but will eat plants if they need to.

Powers

 * Enhanced agility: Tarasques possess the ability to go from one movement to another, effectivey allowing them to effectively dodge attacks, do backflips, swing from things, and numerous other athletic, gymnastic, and martial implements with ease.
 * Enhanced balance: Tarasques possess extremely well developed senses of balance, the positioning of their limbs in space, centers of balance, and the physical conditions to use these facts.
 * Enhanced bite: Tarasques, due to their jaws and fangs, possess extremely powerful bites.
 * Enhanced durability: Tarasques, due to their shells, possess the ability to withstand blows of external assaults.
 * Enhanced endurance: Tarasques possess the ability to operate with little to no energy for extended periods of time.
 * Enhanced hearing: Tarasques possess the ability to pick up sounds with amazzing clairity, distance, detail, and even certain sounds that others cannot hear.
 * Enhanced mauling: Tarasques possess the ability to effectively rip their opponents to shreds.
 * Enhanced smell: Tarasques possess the ability to detect various beasts, beings, objects, places, substances, etc, with nothing but their senses of smell.
 * Enhanced speed: Tarasques possess the ability to move at extremely fast speed.
 * Enhanced stamina: Tarasques possess the ability to stay physically active for considerably longer than most others.
 * Enhanced strength: Tarasques possess the ability to exert a great amount of strength from their muscles.
 * Claws: Tarasques possess claws that are razor sharp, and are generally used as weapons.
 * Tail: Tarasques possess scorpion tails with poisonous stingers on the ends, which can be used both as a stabbing weapon, and as a giant club, whenever the need arises.
 * Roar: Tarasques possess the ability to unleash a sonic blast from their vocal chords, which sounds like a lion roar.
 * Reflective shell: Tarasques possess a shell that has reflective properties.
 * Spell reflection: Tarasque shells possess the ability to reflect any spell back at the caster.
 * Tarasque communication: Tarasques possess the ability to communicate with their fellow tarasques.