Weekly Beasties: Catriculan Hound (d20)
Catriculan hounds are lanky¸ wily dogs five feet at the shoulder and nearly ten feet from snout to tail. Though they bear superficial resemblance to normal hounds¸ they are of a foul disposition and temperament. If kept well fed and treated fairly¸ though¸ they'll almost never turn on their owners. Almost.
t is not known what the moniker "Catriculan" is in reference to - perhaps some long-forgotten city where the creatures were bred¸ or a wizard who created them from whole cloth. Some scholars theorize that they are domesticated dire wolves¸ much as a normal dog is a domesticated wolf… though that does not explain their foul demeanor.