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| Sharp '''Special''' || Melee Ranged || '''<span style="color:#274e13">1</span>''' || '''<span style="color:#0c53a6">9</span>''' || '''<span style="color:#980000">N</span>''' || N/A

A legendary, monstrous canine creature, known for its silver fur and its bloodthirsty behavior. When standing on all four legs, the gavodborz can already be considered to be a massive creature, with an average height of 5 foot 6 inches and a weight of 240 lbs. However, the borz, as it is sometimes shortened, has the uncanny ability to stand on its hind legs and walk (though only for short distances). It is thought believed that this ability is largely for intimidation, as standing up causes it to rise its height to nearly seven feet in height, and it frequently growlsgrowling, howlshowling, and beats beating its chest with its claws while doing so, akin to an enraged [[gorilla]]. All gavodborzes have gray or silvery fur. Eye color is either reddish-brown or black.

It is a notoriously intimidating and murderous beast, seemingly enjoying to make making a show out of tearing apart its opponents, eating their remains, or splattering blood over their faces or their bodies. This suggests that the gavodborz has enough intelligence to be ''knowingly'' scary to other creatures, and that it is making efforts to be as intimidating as it is dangerous. Unsurprisingly, the gavodborz is a carnivorous creature, its diet being composed nearly entirely of meat supplemented with bone, which it is capable of crushing to a fine dustsmall chunks with its teeth, which it will then swallow chew and digestswallow; presumably as a method of supplementing the diet with phosphate.

The gavodborz is not all intimidation however; it is a legendary beast, seemingly built for combat. It is capable of delivering severe damage with its claws and teeth, it can fire firing ''frostblast'' beams much like a [[kallwolf]], and it can also spit large balls of magic energy known as ''mist balls''; projectiles about the size of an orange, which explode into clouds of obfuscating mist. These mist clouds are used to disorient opponents, or to conceal the borz's attempts to escape, should it take too much damage and need to retreat.

As should be expected for a Threat threat level 5 creature, even well-prepared adventurers may find themselves having trouble defeating a gavodborz, as their entire body is reinforced by a type of natural, subdermal scale armor, covering the near-entirety of the beast's body, giving the gavodborz a bulky, chiseled appearance. This armor is bullet-resistant and comparable in protection level to medium body armor. As such, if you plan to fight a gavodborz, bring sufficiently powerful and/or armor-piercing ammunition, or other types of weapons that can reliably deal with such threats.

This creature has existed since the beginning of the [[History of the Mazes|medieval eras]], being referenced in numerous books. However, the etymology behind this creature's name does not appear to have any roots in the [[Languages|Old Tongue]]; there are no corresponding words or word roots that would make sense, and it seems the creature has been referred to as ''gavodborz'' since it first appeared. It is therefore unknown what ''gavodborz'' could be transliterated translated to, if anything.