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Livestock Deaths Puzzle Ranchers, Researchers

Livestock Deaths Puzzle Ranchers, ResearchersNews for Sul, Olarune 8th, 998

By David Noonan

AIRHAVEN -- Baffled ranchers in western Aundair expressed their frustration on Zol after finding dozens m

ad sheep and cattle in remote grasslands.

edation on livestock is nothing new to the ranchers, but these cattle and sheep have apparently been stra

crushed, then bled dry. Each corpse bears a series of circular wounds the size of dinner plates.

aun Manakuli, a shepherd on the Eldeen border, reported that he had lost five sheep to the mysterious

enace. "I'd heard the rumors, so I'd been staying awake at night to protect my flock," he said. "It was almos

orning when I heard this low, groaning sound coming from over the hill. I ran as fast as I could, but by the t

ached the top of the hillock, I'd lost five sheep."

hatever killed his sheep did so in seconds, Manakuli claimed, because he was less than 100 feet away wh

heard the groaning sound.

enowned hunter and naturalist Carsenni Rhun described the wounds as perplexing. He vowed to be the fir

ng in the beast responsible -- dead or alive. "I've hunted across Khorvaire, from the Shadow Marches to th

ngles of Q'Barra. No one's ever bagged anything like this, so I guess I'll be first," he said.

hun speculated that an octopuslike tentacle could have caused the wounds. "When I was diving in Eldeen

ortly after the war, sometimes I'd see a whale with a circular scar. Such marks are from the incredibly powckers on the tentacles of certain sea-beasts," he said. "But the scars on the whales weren't much bigger th

y hand," he continued. "What behemoth could leave a tentacle mark as big as these?"

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