Mole Boar

''Glaring at you with large, dark eyes is some kind of furred boar, albeit with a long, sinuous body. It displays elegantly curved claws the length of your hand and hisses an unmistakable threat.''

Combat
The squat nature of mole boars allows them to move beneath the cover of the blossom field before attacking. When an intruder is detected, the local colony of mole boars charges forth from their burrows to attack the interloper en masse. While charging, mole boars are easy to detect, with dirt spraying behind them as they move in to attack. Since they travel beneath the blossoms, only their general location can be detected once they slow down.

As a mole boar approaches a target, it leaps from the concealing brush, surprising the target if the direction and speed of the attack are generally unknown. If thrown from a target, or if it does not leap, a mole boar uses its two claws and one bite attack on the legs and ankles of its victim. Mole boars eat their prey‘s flesh before it has a chance to mutate. A mole boar eats only a small amount of food, returning to its burrow when full.

Description
The mole boar is a cross between a weasel and a boar, although is more the size of the former. These small creatures are indigenous to the fields around the Pristine Tower, and likely began as mutated invaders centuries ago. All mole boars are immune to the mutating effects of the Pristine Tower. These creatures are short and squat, much like a badger, with large, boar-like fangs and long claws used for both digging and attacking prey.

Mole boars live in communities of up to 100 throughout the blossom fields of the Pristine Tower. There are an equal number of females and males mole boars in each community, and there is no one dominant creature that controls a specific area. Each community claims a roughly 100 square yard territory, attacking any creatures not of its species that it detects. The all live together, hunting the blossom fields for floaters (their primary source of food) and reproducing at an alarming rate. If removed from their environment, mole boars become docile and refuse to eat, eventually starving to death. The floaters of the area must land in order to breed and are fed upon when they do so. In turn, however, the mole boars are one of the mating floater‘s sources of food. Mole boars multiply at a rate of four times a year, and females are most often constantly pregnant with young. They can live up to 10 years, through few do.