Overview
Frosthorn oxen are enormous draft animals used in Teryndal for wagon travel, farm labor, and military logistics. They are favored for strength and tenacity on unforgiving terrain, making them useful alongside essence-core transport and enchanted machinery.
Description and Behavior
Frosthorn oxen have massive hooves, thick fur, forceful snorting breaths, and a deep call that half-mooes and half-roars. They can be harnessed to rugged wagons, enchanted plows, and heavy army carts. Their usual movement is lumbering. One ox gallops with an overburdened cart after Xarion accelerates Teryndal's army with mass enchantments.
Uses
Eira and Lirien travel by frosthorn-ox wagon after leaving Fyrhaven for Lake Velisyth, and Eira thanks one of the oxen at the end of the trip. Frosthorn oxen also work farms in central Teryndal, drag massive enchanted carts south of Irrathis before Teryndal's army marches, and are eaten as grilled steak near the Imperial Institute.
Thalena's Celestial Games suggestions include frosthorn oxen among beasts that contestants could tame and bring to Chronasis, alongside whisperfoxes, ibrashi, colossal fish, and astragons.