within the fridgid, snowless lands of Kerano that creatures
of musk ox likeness can be encountered.  Through it is bitter cold
in the country, the notion of snow is an absurdity, which acts as
the Bobeerins saving grace.. given its size.

Bobeerin are small oxen. No taller than the ankles of the average
man.  With plush, bluish dark coats and white-furred legs, adorned
with pale muzzle and dark nose: the Bobeerin are largely ignored by
the Kauen people, who have little interest in the migratory
creatures oft found roaming their plains. The oxen are thought of
as being inferior to other beasts, and incredibly stupid, for they
adhere to pointless migration. No one place warmer, or  more
fertile than another. For some, questions arise that
are left unanswered. Is it some age old racial memory that they
carry out, enacting it over and over each year from when the world
was younger? Or do they follow something that simply cannot be
understood.

In reality, Bobeerin are 'magic eaters'. While it might look they
are snuffling for plants between the icy layers of the earth, they
are sniffing for streams of magic that have slipped through a
dimensional rift and upon encountering it, feed joyfully. The
Bobeerin,contrary to popular belief, are extremely intelligent.
Before they get to a point where they might deplete the stream, they
pause, and move as far away from it as possible to another one
of their previous haunts.

Once finding two ample streams of magic in distance, they would
remember the locations, and spend much of their time moving
from one, to the other -- and back again once the first was
full and far. They are capable of eating plants that contain a
thread of magical essence, and can adapt to it if the need arises.
Bobeerin however, often expire when caught and attempts are
made to tame them: as most of the plants that do contain
magic are poisonous to humans, and its never considered to
be given to Bobeerin who are treated like regular animals.

Bobeerin are able to travel through magical rifts, into the planes
beyond. They have a wide range of magical abilities, such as
the sprouting of miniature fireballs, but they are generally
extremely gentle and pacifistic.

Last, but not least.. the Bobeerin are tufted on their crowns.

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