Barghest

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Barghests (悪霊犬 (バーゲスト) ) are magical hound creatures that live in Great Forest of Tob.

Appearance[]

Barghests have the appearance that resembled black wolves, with two horns that spring out of their head and a chain that is wrapped around their bodies.

Abilities[]

Barghests have a very good and sensitive sense of smell and likes to hunt and toy with its prey before devouring it. It also has a superior intellect when compared to regular beasts and it has certain magical special abilities. As a magical beast, it has certain magic abilities but the amount of abilities it could use would depend on the strength of the creature.

Chain Cyclone

Trivia[]

Several Barghests came under control of The Giant of East who carried out attacks on other inhabitants of Tob Forest.
Myths of Barghests originate from Yorkshire and are described as great black dogs that prey on lone travelers.
There exists a variant called a Greater Barghest which is said to have more special abilities than regular ones.^[1]