Woodstalker

Like a dinosaurian grizzly bear--or better yet, a freakish cross between a theropod dinosaur and a dirk-toothed wolverine--the woodstalker prowls the southern taiga of Diaemus, preying on a wide variety of mammals and dinosaurs. It is a temperate relative of the snowsaber, with which it shares multiple features; chief among these are the animal's powerful forelimbs and specialized front fangs. The woodstalker takes the quadrupedal gait further than the snowsaber. While the snowsaber runs on all fours only when covering great distances, the woodstalker is as much a quadruped as any mammalian carnivore. The forelimbs are just as strong as the hind legs, and the woodstalker rarely rears itself upright. The only times you'll find an upright woodstalker are when the animal's making a threat display, or when it's snapping branches off trees to mark its colossal territory. Preying on a more varied diet than its polar relative, the woodstalker has front fangs that are less developed and more multi-purpose. They are not quite as efficient at slicing the jugular veins of large prey animals, but in exchange are shorter, sturdier, and allow the woodstalker to pursue a wider range of prey. This makes the twenty-foot long carnivores far more dangerous than the larger snowsabers, as they're more than willing to chase down and devour a stray human or Dromean... Fortunately for their prey, woodstalkers are solitary creatures, and cannot usually be found coexisting within a territory. Their fur is a deep brown, almost black, and the animal makes little to no use of magic save for stripes of orange lumuoles which strengthen the limbs when climbing trees. It is not uncommon to find the carcass of a medium-sized animal stuffed at the top of a tree, the only clue to its demise being the savagely torn holes in its throat from a woodstalker's fangs.