Tar beast
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A tar beast is an elemental conglomerate of earth and water. It is a black, viscous creature draped with trailing green moss as it oozes slowly across the ground. Its hide appears slick, taut, and rubbery, and the creature forms and retracts small pseudopods as it moves. Any face it might possess is hidden under the veil of moss.
In the steamy bowl of the Un'Goro Crater, the enigmatic tar beasts rise from bubbling black pits to destroy those who cross them. Also found in warm swamps, tar beasts are primal elementals born of the land. Few travelers ever see a tar beast unless they somehow anger the monster - in which case they feel the unbridled wrath of the elemental. As tar beasts are quiet, reclusive, and unspeaking, no one quite knows what will anger one.
Some scholars theorize that primal forces of nature inhabit and animate tar beasts. The fact that such creatures almost always form in extremely ancient, primitive locations bears this theory out, though it certainly proves little. Others claim that the spirits of deceased dinosaurs, trapped and drowned in the tar pits, animate the elementals. No one knows for sure. Tar creatures seem to understand Common and Kalimag (which seems to indicate that the creatures are not dinosaur spirits), but they don't speak.
Tar beasts begin combat by hurling blobs at their nearest foes. When an enemy closes in, the tar beast engages that enemy only until it becomes stuck in the tar creature's adhesive skin. Then the tar beast shifts its focus to the next-closest enemy.MG 131,132
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Notes
- The plant creatures timberlings, and thistleshrubs, and conglomerate elemental creature tar beast, while using the same model as bog beasts are each considered separate types of creatures.MG 131-134
- These creatures are classified as Elementals in WoW, this is a fact confirmed by lore, rather than merely being for gameplay reasons.
