Lore:Duneripper

A duneripper

Dunerippers are carnivorous desert-dwelling creatures with protective scales on their backs. A duneripper can reach the length of three horses, and its armored tail is covered in chitinous scales. Dunerippers are ambush predators, and have a digestion system that requires only a modicum of food to sustain their large bodies. The duneripper burrows beneath the sand, sometimes lying motionless for days, waiting to strike its victim. Redguard nomads claim that dunerippers of the Alik'r are a fraction of the size they used to be when the Ra Gada first encountered them.

The first sign of an imminent duneripper attack is its dorsal crest piercing the sand, causing the sand to churn like a whirlpool. They rip through the dunes with their fins, and should a bite not incapacitate its prey, the duneripper will try to clamp down on it, roll onto it, constrict it, or burrow back into the sand to smother its prey. The duneripper will also sweep its tail around to upend its prey, and it exhibits shorts bursts of impressive speed. The Giant Scorpion is known to fall prey to dunerippers.

Their armored plates and durable neck spines generally fetch good prices at markets. Duneripper blood is believed to prolong life by the people of Bergama, though that is untrue as duneripper blood can be detrimental to one's health if handled poorly. The spine of a duneripper can been used to make drinking horns. The spine has also been made into dowsing sticks.

They are comparable in appearance to Duneracers.

Gallery

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  Painting of a duneripper

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  Duneripper (ESO)

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  Tremorscale, a giant duneripper

See Also

• For game-specific information, see the ESO and Legends articles.