After the Great Collapse many lands became neglected. The state of neglect can be of different kind: extinct towns, for instance, look wild and unnatural. But the young forest, which grows where once well-groomed fields used to be, looks as alien. There are a lot of such areas both in Guiltarian and Faldortian lands. Erlanies have abandoned such lands on their own accord, since it became absolutely impossible to live there after the Collapse: the roads were destroyed, navigable rivers dried up, and some fields were flooded over… Gradually such places have been populated with bold beasts – both those common for Ragnesis and those which have appeared due to distortion.

Certainly, such beasts do not appear just from nowhere. As a rule, if you scrutinize them, you could recognize features of the beasts which have populated our world before the disaster. But the problem is that these features are distorted, while the fierce nature of the mutated does not dispose to long scrutinizing.

It is sad enough, but many of the mortally dangerous beast used be to quite harmless before. For instance, a krovark, which is sometime referred to as morangpak: before the collapse these animals lived in dense forests. Sometimes, when scared, they could attack a traveler, but usually they preferred to retreat, and in general they avoided coming across with erlanies.

Now krovark is one of the most dangerous monsters of both Guiltarian and Faldortian forests. As compares with the pre-Collapse specimen, the current ones became much larger, their fangs grew longer, and their forefeet are more developed. And the main thing is that krovarks became more intelligent. But this intellect is malicious and is aimed at killing.

Before the Collapse, the main diet of krovarks included young sprouts of reed, mushrooms, berries and fruit, as well as small vertebrates. The current krovarks also wouldn’t mind to treat themselves to fruit, but their main food is meat. These are dexterous and strong beasts of prey, which live in families and chase for their victim together. As a rule, one or two krovarks – full-grown males with loud voices and deterrent appearance – attack an animal and force him to run where female krovarks lay an ambush.

Krovark’s stomach sabre-teeth look threatening, but muscles of their lower jaws are not strong enough to make deadly blows and to unrip a victim’s belly. Krovarks do this only sometimes; the main threat is that these fangs dappled with grooves, are usually stained with dirt and with krovark’s saliva. This mixture is toxic and it poisons an organism as it gets into blood. Then follows exhausting pursuitalong the forest; very soon a poisoned animal or erlany will start wearing themselves out – and those members of krovark’s tribe who are waiting in ambush, only have to finish off the victim.

Four species of krovarks are known. Among them, a rulgiorian krovark lives in Skallurm (a country of Faldorts), while three other species (brown, grey and shaggy) live in Dahroo-Koosaimah, in islands of Guiltarians. They are different in color, size, and habits, but all of them are dangerous enough; they absolutely do not fear erlanies and often they attack them. Large families of krovarks can for many years terrorize small villages and not only kill all the fowl, but also steal kids and eat them.