Abominations

Mother said there were beasts in the night, terrible beasts that ate you whole. Mother said you had to not go out at night. That's when they prowl. Twisted beasts, she called them. Twisted angry monsters that would gnash and claw at you. Stuck between plant eaters and meat eaters. Mother told me of the one her mother's mother saw. The one who left the old woman half-blind and nearly dead. It's why we don't go onto the plains at night anymore.

— Am'bou'dou Woman

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Most legends of abominations describe an unnatural or stitched together a beast of a dinosaur. Mostly is warning of going out alone at night or when children are being naughty and need to be reminded the world will eat them to get them to behave. Most stories talk about a creature as big as a Rex, with hind claws like a Utahraptor, horns of triceratops, jaws of an acro, the tail of a mosa, and a never-ending appetite for people.

Historical Basis

There have been reports from the DryLock Plains of dinosaur corpses being "stitched" together. The more famous example is when a parasaurolophus head and half the torso was stitched onto Edmontosaurus's half torso and body, nearly perfectly. It was said the creature survived long enough to make it into one of the Wave38 Cities and studied it for less than an hour. It was readily concluded that while rather rare and unique circumstances would be needed for this to actually happen and be a viable creature. So far the Wave38 have just regimented it to a bedtime story.
Few other things have been seen by various tribes from herbivores stitched together with carnivores in various ways but nothing living or still moving, though the stories still seem to say that such an abomination has been seen stalking the world.

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Amobonination Artwork made for Tyleth by Zenon Morgan[Me].

Related Locations

• DryLock Plains
• WildLands*

Spread/Apocrypha

• It has honestly spread from the north to the south, there are numerous iterations of the greatly feared beast, they all follow the same baseline.
• The DryLock Plains is where the largest concentration of Time Ripple Storms happen, lending to the mythos of the Abomination to run rampant within the tribes and people close to this location.

Variations

• Rownak: The tell tales of Allosaurus made to monstrous proportions to rival even the famed Tyrannosaurus Rex.
• Am'bou'dou: It is mostly used as a way to keep children in line and why they don't leave their camps after dark unless there is a full moon.
• Sobacks: Speak of a great stitched Suchomimus, holding parts from Spinosaurus, Baryonyx, and giant crocodiles.
• Khal'ha: While they teach their children to be cautious of the abominations, they also tell them to embody them, to take their power and be like them.
• Marked Ones: They embrace the mythos and use it in their raiding to terrify those they are raiding.

In Literature

• The Wave 38 have catalogued and studied various formations and malformations of the Time Storms have caused.

In Art

• The Am'bou'dou people paint images of abominations on their moonshine containers.
• Khal'ha dawn armor with depictions of abominations either as their helms, their pauldrons, and chest pieces.
• The Sobacks have been known to paint stitch lines on their beasts before combat.
• The Marked Ones taxidermy pieces of dinosaurs and stitch them onto their armor.