IZINGOGO

IZINGOGO

"Or, worst of all, the izingogo - creatures that go on all fours like baboons, but have human faces! These things did most of the fighting for the Naamans. They tore, and rendered, and killed, and we could do nothing!"

"For the isingogo were, as Majnun had said, human quadrupeds. Their size approximated that of a full-grown man, but the proportions of their limbs were different. Their arms were longer, ending in broad, spatulate hands. Legs bent like those of a hare propelled the creatures in bounds of terrifying speed. Their backs were hunched like bows, and their bodies, lean as a cheetah's, were covered with short, wooly hair."

"But it was the faces of the izingogo that were their most frightening feature. Save for a slight protrusion of the jaw, those visages were fully human. But when they opened their mouths, the izingogos' jaws revealed the teeth of a carnivore. Those teeth, and the strength in their splayed hands, were the only weapons the izingogo needed, other than their numbers."

Charles R. Saunders, Imaro III: The Trail Of Bohu