[Dragaera] The Lyorn's Horn

[Howard Brazee]

Jon Lincicum wrote:
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> From: Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net>
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>> Do we know the horn is straight?   Or if it's on the animal's 
>> forehead?   
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> SKZB says it's a straight horn coming out of the forehead, that's good enough for me.
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That works - as he's the one who will be making it all "real".
>> Or long?  How about how it is used?    Maybe it's like a 
>> single ram's horn, used in mating ritual.  It is easier to imagine a 
>> Dragaeran race with the attributes of a ram than with the attributes of 
>> a gazelle.
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> "Lyorn growls and lowers horn."
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> To me, this implies that it is used as a weapon against its enemies... Whatever other uses it might have are, as yet, undisclosed.
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> Majikjon
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This description would work well if it was a ram or rhino horn.    How 
do the straighter horned antelope fight?    I could see some problems 
fighting with a long spear on their foreheads.   Rhinos can attack 
without that vulnerability.