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'''Dune Threshers''' are large, melee-attacking animals beasts that look like a crocodile crossed with a shark. They can only attack on the surface, biting and clawing, but are able to "swim" beneath the sand, moving very rapidly while submerged and surfacing beside or behind their targets.
Dune Threshers are [[animalbeast]] type [[monster]]s.
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These beasts travel silently under the dunes, and attack surprised land-based victims, dragging them down under the surface. Due to the fact that the Threshers attack from the sand, many believe that they are safe as long as they travel on solid rock. This is a dangerous misunderstanding, as it's quite common for the Thresher to attack quite far up on the rock and literary drag their victim with them down below the sand dunes, likely suffocating the victim, unless it's killed before that. The attack is made with a jump from the sandy depths up unto the rocks. Professional Thresher-hunter [[Franklin Burroughs]] says that an experienced hunter could possibly survive such an attack, but the average city-dweller would be "lunch".
When hunting, it will generally not chew it's prayits prey, but rather let the effective juices of it's its digestive system take care of it, essentially melting the pray alive.
The Dune Thresher uses the rhythmic sound of footsteps to determine what creature is a potential meal, and where they are. Experienced hunters will adapt by walking slightly more irregular as well as careful, regardless if it's on rock or on the dunes.
These Dune Threshers once lived in the more settled locales, but was driven away to the deep desert wastes of the [[Borderlands]] a long time ago. The average city dweller will rarely ever see a Thresher. Every so often, however, whether due to injury or old age, one of these unholy beasts ventures to the edge of civilization to feast on the frail human animal. When this happens a professional hunter is called in to put an end to the threat.
When hunting a Dune Thresher, direct combat is inadvisable. It's much easier, as well as safer, to rely on hunting [[Scavenger]]s, subduing them and using them as baits. Other burrowing animals could potentially also be used, but the thresher needs to be interested in the movements of the animals, and the scavengers have the added advantage of hurting the Thresher from within it's stomach, often killing the beast before they themselves expire due to the acid contents of the Thresher stomach. If they fail to cause lethal damage to the Thresher, it's possible to use attached chains to drag the monster up to permanently disable it.
We currently lack information to tell whether or not the meat of a Thresher is at all edible, or if the only reason to hunt them would be to diminish their murdering attacks.
==Official Lore==
The Dune Thresher is described in detail by [[Abd al-Hazir]] in his [[Writings of Abd al-Hazir: Entry no. 0005|fifth entry]] in his renowned works [[Writings of Abd al-Hazir]].
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