Dire Elephant (3.5e Monster)

Dire Elephant
''Four redwoods, a coiling anaconda, and a terrible earthquake. What am I?''

A dire elephant is a beast of nightmares. Elephants are dangerous enough as-is. A dire elephant, however, towers over regular elephants and its very steps topple buildings around it. And, unlike a normal elephant, it hungers for meat.

Dire elephants obviously look like really big elephants. They still have herbivorous teeth, despite their carnivorous nature, but have strong enough jaws to rip apart meat.

Strategies and Tactics
A dire elephant will charge into the fray, stomping and trampling on opponents as it is able. It will toss debris at flying opponents, generally having them second guess whether flying is a good idea.

Treasure
Dire elephant tusks are really nice ivory that provide defensive magical benefits. Each tusk can be worn around the neck to act as a Amulet of Natural Armor +1 (that is, there are two such amulets provided from a single dire elephant).

Dire elephant tusks can also be used to upgrade existing amulets of natural armor by providing enough material for the difference in cost of the full-price for the item. For example, if you own an amulet of natural armor +1 and you want to make it +2, you will need 6,000 gp worth of tusks (3 tusks). If you get that amount, you can immediately upgrade your amulet. The tusks provide both the gold and material component costs in this way.

Dire elephant tusk pairs are valued at 4,000 gp on the open market (each tusk is 2,000 gp).

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