El Dorado Tyrant

El Dorado Tyrant
Artist's impression of a tyrant chasing a monkey.
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Family:	Tyrannosauridae
Genus:	Tyrannosaurus
Species:	T. Doradoensis
Binomial name
Tyrannosaurus Doradoensis 2032

The El Dorado Tyrant, also known as the T.D. is a theropod dinosaur native to El Dorado. It is one of the apex predators of the area and feeds on large herbivores, and less commonly, other predators and carrion.

Physical characteristics

The tyrant exhibits characteristics typical of tyrannosaurs, including two legs, a large head, small arms, sharp teeth and claws, and a tail. Unlike most tyrannosaurs, however, the tyrant is covered in bright orange feathers from the back of its neck to its arms and the base of the tail. It is normally around 3.5 to 6 metres tall and 12 metres long and weigh 4 to 9.5 tonnes, although male specimens reaching 13 metres are not unheard of.

Behaviour

Hunting and diet

The tyrant is a hypercarnivore with a key role in its ecological community. Its wide spectrum of prey consists mainly of ornithopods, especially hadrosaurs like the kincaller, ceratopsians, and smaller theropods, including others of its own kind. It tends to avoid fully grown adult sauropods and small prey such as pterosaurs and ornithomimosaurs. While it is often a solitary hunter, the tyrant has been seen forming temporary hunting packs of 3-5 individuals. These packs have proven more successful than lone hunters.

The tyrant often consumes its prey at the location of the hunt but sometimes drag its prey into cover. It can spend around 50 minutes eating, and when a kill cannot be consumed entirely, the tyrant would rest for a few minutes before before continuing to eat. When the opportunity arises, the tyrant would scavenge.

Reproduction and live cycle

The female tyrant usually reproduces when she reaches the age of 3 and mate throughout the year. She typically lays 1-2 eggs in a nest, which may be a cave, thicket, or other shelter, both natural and man-made. Like female crocodiles, she defends her nest until her eggs hatch, after which she may relocate her young to a different nest, to avoid the attention of other predators. The tyrant hatchling is usually 72 centimetres long and weigh 1.2 kilogrammes. It is protected by its mother until its first year, when it would often lengths of 4-4.7 metres and leave the nest to live on its own. The tyrant can live up to 12-17 years in the wild, with its leading cause of death being violent attacks from another tyrant or from sentients. Injured and young tyrants can fall victim to cannibalism, as well as predation from other theropods or be trampled by sauropods.

Communication

Head rubbing is a common friendly gesture for the tyrant, often considered to be a form of greeting to a non-hostile entity or an apology after a fight. Low puffing and humming can be heard between tyrant mates or a tyrant mother to her young, indicating affection. On the contrary, growling and roaring are often ways the tyrant communicates hostile intent or as an attempt to intimidate other creatures, including sentients.

Relationship with sentients

The declassification of El Dorado's existence, along with the popularity of its cousin, the T-rex, skyrocketed the tyrant to fame. It has now earned its part in contemporary popular culture besides its cousin, if not above it, simply for the fact that it is the largest extant tyrannosaur in the world, being featured in numerous films, TV programmes, and video games. What few zoos the Caliphate of Earth allow to house the tyrant has seen its attendance rise thanks to the dinosaur, including the Beijing Zoo in Amenria, which has maintained a female individual named "Big Red" since 2045.

Due to the dimensional constraints of El Dorado, tyrant attack on humans or other sentients are extremely rare, and cases are usually caused by sickness or injury in the animal, forcing it to hunt weak and easy prey.

Realms of the Multiverse

The El Dorado Tyrant is an enemy type players can encounter in maps in its namesake territory. It is not immediately hostile, only becoming aggressive when the party approaches within 2 metres of it or attacks it from range. It is a formidable enemy and should be dealt with caution, although the large xp gained from defeating it, as well as the chance for it to drop tyrant fangs, tyrant claws, tyrant feathers, and tyrant meat, all valuable materials for cooking or crafting, may be considered good incentives to fight it.

The tyrant is not very persistent and would lose aggression rather quickly if the party manages to put a significant distance between them.

Base stats

Level		50
Class		Brawler
Character trait		Tyrant of El Dorado: The El Dorado Tyrant is 10% more likely to inflict the Fear ailment and land critical hits.
Health		1700
Energy		500
Attack	Defence	Agility	Vitality	Spirituality
50	40	33	42	0
Absorbs	Blocks	Resists	Reflects	Weak
-	-	-	-	Ice
Level	Skill	Cost	Range	Effect
???	Head attack	-	1 m	Deals medium blunt damage and pushes the target 2 metres away.
???	Bite attack	-	1 m	Deals high blade damage to one target.
???	Tail swipe	??? EN	3 m radius, ground	Deals high blunt damage to all enemies in the area.
???	Tyrannical roar	??? EN	10 m radius	40% chance of instilling fear to all enemies in the area.
???	Terrifying gaze	??? EN	Visual	50% chance of instilling fear to one target.
???	Trample	??? EN	3 m line	The creature stomps through a straight line, dealing high blunt damage 1-3x to all enemies in the area.