Arctic Adaptation. The hair of the Chiming Frost Aurochs have turned white and grown to a thick hardened woollen fur to protect them from the harsh climate of the Frozen Tundra. They have the following benefits:
- their natural AC is increased by 2
- they gain cold resistance.
Frost Aura. The Chiming Frost Aurochs have an innate ability to channel ice elemental magic around themselves.
- Any creature within 5ft of them who is not resistant to cold damage takes 4 cold damages at the start of their turn.
- Furthermore any creature hitting them with a melee range attack must succeed a Dexterity saving throw DC 14 or take 2d4 of piercing damages as shards of ice fly from the impact.
Gore. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5) piercing damage. If the aurochs moved at least 20 feet straight toward the target immediately before the hit, the target takes an extra 9 (2d8) piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone if it is a creature.
Description
A frost auroch is a large, fierce bovine with jutting horns. In the Frozen Tundra, herds of aurochs roam free. The nomad giant kins inhabiting the steppes have tamed some of them to become working beast or sometime meat.
The Frost Aurochs differ from their cousin from the plain of the Mysts or other islands of World 4 by their thick blue-grey fur which provides them enhanced natural protection. Furthermore grazing on the icy steppes lichen and low herb imbued with shreds of elemental magic, they gain an innate resistance to the cold.
Some are also born with an even greater affinity to the elemental magic of the land. As they grow up, their fur becomes pure white with frozen icicles forming at the edges of their hair. When they walk, they chime like thousands of crystal bells creating an unexpected chorus in the relative silence of the Steppes.
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