Some 100th+ level critter suggestions.
a giant Zaulfung turtle
Grown to monstrous proportions due to the corruptive swamp fumes, this unnatural reptile wades through the brackish waters with lumbering steps. Sickly brown moss and other vile byproducts of the marsh cling to its misshapen grey carapace. With a massive beak of unfathomable bite strength and a long, thick tail with stony ridges jutting rigidly from under its carapace, there is nothing benign about the Zaulfung turtle.
Location: A section (probably northern) of the greater Zaulfung. The area is too big for just sluaghs/hounds anyway.
Level: Juvenile armadillo level.
Type: Cursed
Skin: a jagged grey carapace fragment
Abilities: Stealthy. May decompose into coughing gas like crypt fiends.
a fossilized ebon Zaulfung turtle
Its petrified carapace bearing countless carvings of three-tined talons, the gigantic monstrosity before you appears to be the remains of an oversized Zaulfung turtle, having been reanimated after a brutal sacrifice to Maelshyve. Knotty scars from old, grievous wounds mar its granite-like skin, sealed with some viscous black substance. The carcass looks like it may collapse in a heap any moment, but shifting tendrils of ebon miasma wrap about its entire body, lending unholy vigor to its limbs.
A Maelshyvean death knight sits high atop the great undead turtle, directing the beast with booming blows of its war mattock upon the carapace.
Location: A new, subterranean area connecting the swamp and Maelshyve's Fortress. This could be the long requested shortcut into hierophants, requiring hefty survival skills.
Level: Adult armadillo level.
Type: Fleshy undead
Skin: an engraved ebon carapace fragment
Abilities: The miasma coating its body travels through melee and pole weapons, casting Malediction and CoZ on the attacker (only once like the storm bull zap). Unlike shalswars and damaska boars, the rider never dies with the mount.
a Maelshyvean death knight
Raised from some reformed bones of a sacrificed Zaulfung turtle, the death knight is given life at the same time as the reanimated beast, its essence entwined with its mount in an eternal necromantic bond. Under a glowing reptilian skull, the vaguely humanoid skeleton is clad in tightly interlocking plate armor. Three-tined claws, alight with the same unearthly glow, grip a war mattock disproportionately large to its gangly body.
Location: On top of the zombie turtles.
Level: About the same as zombie turtles. More offense, less defense.
Type: Skeletal undead.
Skin: a warped reptilian skull
Abilities: Can reanimate its mount once after it's slain. Casts Aether Lash.
~Aeth
