Aryx

The lord of the sands, the aryx is not as bulky as the kingshorn but has longer legs and cleaner lines. A magnificently handsome animal, it boasts striking silver and white diamonds on its face, black, swept-back horns and a black crest along its spine to its tail. The aryx is said to almost never drink, drawing water from the twist-grass and thistle it grazes on in the open desert. The aryx bull strikes itself into the memory by posing on hill-tops and dune-crests at sunset while watching over its herd of five to ten females. The first urdwan to cross the deserts of Harad were said to have followed an aryx that beckoned them every evening in the twilight as they camped. The wise suggest that the beast, if not just a legend, was possessed by the spirit of the Vala Yavanna.