Gorjak
A predatory lizard that hunted at night in the Kaktis Desert. The gorjak was tripedal, and a distant cousin to the trinatical.
The first and most striking feature were its two arms that it had attached to its upper body. Since gorjaks did not have trinaticals’ spiked feet, they used these two additional limbs to hunt prey. These arms ended in a bone-reinforced sac complete with a protruding, long, sharp, bone stinger. Gorjaks used this weapon to skewer their prey before pumping them full of a potent, toxic magic agent. This venomous arcane secretion induced dizziness and nausea, or in certain individuals, seizures and total blindness.
Gorjaks also had a powerful set of jaws for tearing flesh apart. Their eyes were black with white pupils, giving them an unnerving appearance. Their eyes also allowed them to have near-perfect vision in darkness, which allowed them to hunt effectively at night. This came at the cost of vision in brighter lit conditions; gorjaks become virtually blind in the sunlight.
Gorjaks were covered in evergreen scales, but their main torso (mostly on their backs) was covered in a golden brown down. The down helped gorjaks remain warm during the cold nights in the desert.
A gorjak would hunt anything and everything; tetrashires were a natural prey, but gorjaks would not hesitate to eat humans and their livestock when available. Only death crabs with their thick shells are left alone by these savage reptiles.
Gorjaks have been a deadly scourge in the Kaktis for ages. The oldest of Jinifarian tales tell of gorjaks ransacking entire encampments in the dead of night, leaving no survivors.