The Skavverns were humanoid creatures. That much was true. They had two arms and two legs. A head shaped close enough to a human's that, from far away, someone might mistake one for a person.
Up close, that illusion died fast.
Their bodies were built in a wrong way.Their skin clung to muscle like it was worn instead of grown. From the center of their chest, right where a human heart would be, a thick tail extended backward, running down their spine and dropping past their lower back. It moved when they breathed. Sometimes it twitched on its own, like it had a will separate from the rest of them.
Their hands had claws, not nails. Long, curved, and black. They didn't trim it like humans or dull it with time. They stayed sharp enough that even the smallest swipe could peel flesh open.
Their mouths were worse.
