Verr
A mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai Mountains; wild, agile, ill-tempered with long hair and spiraling horns; source of a form of wool.
*The verr was a mountain goat indigenous to the Voltai. It was a wild, agile, ill-tempered beast, long-haired and spiral-horned. Among the Voltai crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty yards of one.
~Priest-Kings of Gor, page 63~
Water Lizards
*.."there was a stirring in the water, and I realized the small water lizards of the swamp forest were engaged in their grizzly work. I bend down and washed the blade of my sword as well as I could in the green water, but my tunic was so splattered and soaked that I had no way to dry the blade. Accordingly, carrying the sword in my hand, I waded back to the foot of the swamp tree and climbed the small, dry knoll at it's base."
~Tarnsman of Gor, pages 85-86~
The death would not be a pleasant one. Bound helplessly, without food or water, my own body would torture me by it's weight dragging on the hand and ankle ropes, suspended a few inches above the roiling muddy surface under the fiery sun. I knew that I would not, some days hence, reach the delta of the Vosk and the cities in the delta except perhaps as a bound corpse, withered by exposure and the lack of water. Indeed, it was unlikely my body would reach the delta at all. it was far more likely that one of the water lizards of the Vosk or one of the great hook-beaked turtles of the river would seize my body and drag it and the frame under the water,destroying me in the mud below. There was also the chance that a wild tarn might swoop down and feed on the helpless living morsel fastened to that degrading frame. Of one thing I was certain-there would be no human assistance or even pity, for the poor wretches on the frames are none but villains, betrayers, and blasphemers against the Priest-Kings, and it is a sacreligious act een to consider terminating their sufferings
~Book 1, page 139~
Zeder
A small, sleen-like, carnivorous mammal that in habits the Ua River area. It grows to about 2 feet in length and weighs 8-10 lbs. It is diurnal and can swim very well.
*There is, however, a sleen-like animal, though much smaller, about two feet in length and some eight to ten pounds in weight, the Zeder, which frequents the Ua and her tributaries. It knifes through the water by day and, at night, returns to it's nest, built from sticks and mud in the branches of a tree overlooking the water.
~Explorers of Gor, page 312~ |
