Deathclaw

The first deathclaws were created by druid circles as a guardian of deserts and other arid regions. Made by combining the traits of various animals no longer remembered, although some scholars believe a large amount was of a chameleon, deathclaws were made to defend the groves of druids and the ecosystem in the land. 

Deathclaws normally prefer to live on their own and hunt any type of large animals they can find, their diets do change depending on where they live. Usually they hunt down large cattle like aurochs and deer, but some have been documented eating a more varied diet with large insects, bears, dinosaurs, and some packs have been known as becoming maneaters, although these are very rare.

Deathclaws can be domesticated by some brave and foolhardy beings. Druid circles will put them to work as the same grove guardians they were made for. Lizardfolk have been known to tame them to use as massive beasts of war to send into battle. Blue dragons will even keep them around in their lairs as guardian beasts while the dragon is away.

Deathclaws display a complex family structure. Living in a family structure led by a male and their mate the rest of the family is their adult daughters and subadult sons, with male adults leaving the families to form a new pack. Breeding adults are recognizable by their greatly increased size, darker coloration, and altered horn arrangement. Nests are tended to by both the matriarch and the adult females. These nests are fiercely guarded and they will go belligerent over a single egg being taken away from the nest, one account tells of a deathclaw female traveling over six miles through the desert to find a single egg that was stolen from their nest.

Deathclaw nests are made by burying their eggs under sediment and are either in an underground chamber or out in the surface. The hatchlings need to be raised by the whole family and are given dead animals to eat.

Breeding age males are usually wandering alone. These deathclaws, called "Savage deathclaws" are much more chaotic and comparable to owlbears in their level of defiance running headlong to fight even blue dragons. What few savage deathclaws find a mate quickly become alphas.

While at first they appear to be dim-witted brutish monsters, deathclaws are surprisingly intelligent creatures. The average deathclaw is as intelligent as a young child and can tell apart from other humanoids they have met before.

Occasionally the forces that created them manifest in the form of awakened deathclaws. As intelligent as humans these deathclaws live in dens of their own kind in isolation afraid other races will be afraid of them and try to attack. Occasionally these deathclaw societies interact with other settlements and are very precautious with these interactions. Afraid one wrong move could lead to bloodshed.