Aflifnanians

The undarlaif (Rh. "leavings") are large, black jackals that came into the Talath Harroch (southern Rhovanion plain) south of Mirkwood at the time of the Great Plague of T.A. 1636-1637.

Originally migrating from the East, they now range from the western flanks of the Orocarni to the eastern bank of the Anduin. Their reddish ears complement and soften their distinct black coloring and their eerie blue eyes, lending them an attractive and somewhat innocent guise that obscures their sly, pitiless ways.

Undarlaif hunt mostly at night, moving and working in wellcoordinated packs of four to twenty. The packs hunt cooperatively in a clever and sinister manner. First, they encircle a small group of prey (deer, kine, sheep, Men, etc.). Then some of them decoy away the strongest defenders, while the others close in on the choicest victims. In lean times, however, they are not too proud to scavenge for carrion and refuse; thus their name.