Dire Wolves Walk on Water and Hunt God

When the old dragonslayers began winning the war, wolves feasted on draconic flesh. Mystical radiation spread throughout their bodies like untreated cancer. Viral, aggressive, painful, it crushed their bones into dust and rebuilt them into longer, stronger things. Frames filled out with more muscle and fur grew darker and longer and intellects were cultivated. So direwolves were born.

They are tall as horses, as thick as bears, as vicious as wolves, and as smart as dragons. They are solitary hunters but sometimes form small packs of 3-7 direwolves. They are viciously strong and hunt and are hunted by spotted hyenas. They devour drakes of all kinds and terrorize kobolds like how an abusive parent terrorizes their child. A pack of 15 to 30 direwolves can take down a grounded dragon.

This is because the radiation has poisoned them too.

Direwolves have the sight of devils and thus no darkness, no matter how arcane, can blind them. Their jaws bite through steel and stone alike. Their paws let them walk on both shadow and water. Their hides resist spears and spells. Their tactics adapt and are ever brutal.

Once, the God Prince Jan-Kuk hunted a superpack of 50 direwolves. He was equipped with the Holy Instruments that had slain a dragon whose claws crushed mountains. He and his entire retinue were massacred to the man and his body utterly consumed. Ever since then, direwolves have had a taste for god flesh and monthly do they attempt to invade the City to feast on its rulers.

Damn that's a big dog.

DIREWOLF

HD: 8

AC: As Half-Plate + Shield

SPEED: x4 that of a man

ATTACKS: Bite for 1d12 (roll damage twice and take the higher roll). For every other pack member within 5 feet of target, gains another Bite for an additional 1d12.

The direwolf can see through nonmagical and magical darkness. It can walk on shadows as if they were solid, as well as water, at full speed.

Roll on the mutations table for how dragon sickness effects the direwolf pack.

3d6	Direwolf Mutations
3	The direwolf can smell fear up to 100 miles away.
4	The direwolf’s howl deafens any non-direwolf that hears it.
5	The direwolf has fangs of steel, dealing another 1d8 damage when bitten.
6	The direwolf is abnormally vicious. If it bites a target, it will savage them for another 2d8 damage OR remove a piece of equipment.
7	The direwolf’s fur deals 1d6 damage to anyone who touches it.
8	The direwolf has no significant mutation.
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13	The direwolf has a breath weapon. Roll as if a dragon.
14	The direwolf’s bite curses those it wounds. During the next new moon, the bitten turns into a direwolf for 12 hours.
15	The direwolf’s fur reflects any 1st targeted on it back towards the caster.
16	The direwolf has the eyes of the dead and can see through illusions.
17	The direwolf can run on wind at x4 human speed.
18	The direwolf consumed the flesh of a god. It can cast up to 7th level cleric spells.