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Gorgonopsid, the blood hound Species: Inostrancevia Gorgonopsid Time: Permian Diet: Carnivore Temperament: Aggressive Wild: Native to the arks deserts, redwoods, and grasslands, Gorgonopsid is a powerful predator similar in size to the Thylacoleo. However unlike the marsupial lion, this gorgon isn't adapted to climbing, being instead more adapted to tracking injured prey with their amazing sense of smell. This sense of smell allows Gorgonopsids to not only track potential prey but give them information on how injured the prey is while letting them keep track of its location no mater how far they may have gone. With this powerful tool, Gorgonopsids are unique in the fact they will target larger carnivores then they usually would if they are injured enough. When attacking with it's long powerful jaws and saber-teeth, the Gorgonopsid inflicts a gnash effect, causing it's prey to bleed out. This makes Gorgonopsids a living nightmare for any survivors on injured mounts on the warmer habitats they inhabit as your best option is to run and hope the Gorgonopsid finds a more tasty meal or to swim as these predators do not seem to be well adapted to swimming. Domesticated: With such a powerful sense of smell and powerful gnashing bites, many tribes use Gorgonopsids as a powerful battle mount and tracker. Many of which will be used to hunt even the mightiest of apex predators! However their main appeal is their powerful sense of smell, allowing those who tame Gorgonopsid to not only track and identify the strength of wild creatures but also tamed animals, making it an amazing animal for tamers and for scouts. It can even track certain items such as eggs, explorer notes, loot drops, artifacts and even apex drops on apex predators. To tame one of these saber-toothed therapsids however may be counter intuitive for those who are not familiar with them. With their powerful sense of smell the best way to tame one is too use a rare flower scent, which normally aggravates nearby creatures, to mellow down a nearby Gorgonopsid as they seem to enjoy the smell. This makes taming these very dangerous due to the neighboring wildlife as you will have to feed them while the scent of the flower covers you to avoid being attacked by the Gorgonopsid. Gorgonopsids, named after the Gorgon of Greek myth, were a group of predatory stem-mammals that lived before the dinosaurs during the Permian period. Related to Purlovia, they were the top predators of their time. They are characterized by a long and narrow skull, as well as an elongated upper and lower canine teeth, making it much similar to mammals despite having a more reptilian body. Also, if you did not know. This is the ONLY creature ARK has confirmed to appear that never did. Back in ARK’s early days there was a list of all the creatures they planned to add on Steam. All of the creatures on that list were added eventually, with the exception of the Gorgonopsid. The gorgonopsid used to share this title of “Forgotten Creature” with the Giant Crab, but Karkinos has been added in Aberration. Gorgonopsid will spawn in warmer locations such as deserts, redwoods, grasslands. It is a mid-tier to end-tier tame, being a decently powerful mount similar in scale to Thylacoleo. However, the gorgonopsid also has a very specific but incredibly useful ability. This gorgonopsid would have the strongest sense of smell on the ARK, able to use its nose for a variety of different uses. Abilities: -Tracking: By pressing the sniffing ability, a crosshair will appear on the rider’s screen. When released onto a creature in sight, regardless of what it is, where it is, or who it belongs to, the Gorgonopsid will be able to tell its general direction, allowing the rider to track this creature across the map, regardless of its location. This can act as a more organic form of the transponder, as you could give the gorgonopsid the scent of your flyer before you travel. In the event you die but your flyer lives and buzzed off somewhere unknown, you can take out your gorgonopsid to find it. This also has utility in PvP, since this ability can identify and track enemies from a far distance without their knowledge, for the most part. Players will be completely unaware of their tames being tracked, but players will be notified if a gorgonopsid is specifically tracking their character. Another counter is that gorgonopsids lose the scent if the creature they’re tracking is put into a cryopod. Gorgonopsids will remember their last scent if they themselves are put in cryopods, however. -High-Level Tame Finding: While there are creatures like the glow pets that have the ability to detect high level creatures in the area, gorgonopsids have a similar ability that is more direct. When using this ability, the gorgonopsid will show the direction of the highest level creature within a certain radius of itself, and is highlighted to the rider upon being viewed directly. This ability can be refreshed by using the ability again, and the target will change if a higher level creature has moved within range. -Gnash Bite: With a particularly powerful bite of its saber teeth, the Gorgonopsid leaves a gnashing wound upon the creature it attacked. This gives the gorgonopsid a much stronger scent to follow, allowing the rider to track the creature with much better accuracy than merely gaining the scent from afar. On top of this, since the Gorgonopsid has a much stronger scent from the wound, it allows the rider to see the stats of the wounded creature, akin to an organic and more widespread form of the HLN-A. This would be invaluable when looking to tame certain creatures or scouting for weaknesses in the mist of a battle. -Sensory Support: Acting as a companion to other tames, the gorgonopsid could greatly extend the range of nearby creatures with similar sensory abilities, like those of the Fjordhawk, Parasaur, Dire Wolves, Troodon, and others. -Other ways of tracking: -Able to sniff out traps, explosives and other hazards. -Able to sniff out explorer notes. -Able to sniff out apex drops on apex predators. -Senses and warns of creatures in ambush (Thylacoleo/Purlovia). -Using the scent of eggs/tames/dermis to be able to track specific species of creatures in the wild -Using the scent of stolen items/creatures to track down their original owners -Bite: deals average armor piercing damage, causing major bleed damage due to its saber teeth. -Swipe: swipes with claws, does average damage, quick cooldown -Charge: gorgonops will charge at a target with its jaws wide open and if it hits the target deals huge damage and bleed -Sniff: smells the air and, depending on what it's set to, will highlight all targets in a certain radius. Scent ability can target creatures and players, explorer notes or loot drops, artifacts, element. They are highlighted in a spherical radius from the gorgonops. The sniff can detect enemies similar to the Parasaur. -Roar- Fear roar similar to the Yutyrannus. -A stealth ability to sneak up on or sneak past creatures and tames. -High stamina to maintain long distances -High speed to run towards any targets or escape more quickly -High Jump to aid in exploration and tracking across rough terrain. -Damage resistance and less affected by toxins -Weight reduction on meat, prime meat, mutton, pelt, hide, keratin, chitin FOR TOO LONG THE GORGONOPSID HAS NOT BEEN ADDED IN THE GAME SO LET'S VOTE FOR THE GORGONOPSID!!!