Many-Tusked Behemoth
Leaning against a tree bound in red vines was a large oddly-shaped woven basket. Inside the basket were spars, like those in a boat. Rul-Emor led the group into the many-hued forest. After a short walk he stopped and whistled. Hearing no response, he moved some more and whistled again. Finally, after several more calls there was a distant roar and the sound of splitting trees. Soon, a pale violet-skinned behemoth appeared among the foliage. It turned and began moving toward the group with a strange cadence, borne of six trunk-like legs. Shaking its giant head, six tusks snapped tree limbs as the thing answered the handler’s call. The beast stopped an arm’s-reach before Rul-Emor and lowered its majestic tusks docilely. The handler then explained how to saddle the Torg and led it back to the barn. There, the group helped Rul-Emor hoist the basket onto the creature’s back with a series of ropes, block, and tackle. Leather thongs along the Torg’s chest cinch could then be climbed to the basket.
The Torg is a six-tusked, six-legged pachyderm native to the Great Plateau of Dreaming. Though wild Torg are very dangerous and destructive, trained Torg are very useful and dependable.
Physiology
The back of an adult Torg is commonly 20 feet high.
Torg eat all manner of vegetation, but prefer the meaty reddish-orange leaves of the Ordach.