The hoarlephant resembles a mundane elephant, but is much larger, with jet-black skin and a bloated belly. Though they are carnivores, their predations upon travellers in the jungle are often nothing short of malicious. They use their long trunks to pick up their victims and impale them on their tusks for later consumption. Though they do not speak, they seem to posess a great deal of animal cunning, and will sometimes cover themselves in rotting vegetation to lie in ambush.
The hoarlephant suffers from a continous and exaggerated case of constipation. Everything it eats is stored in its stomach and digested. That which cannot be digested, including bones and armour, remains in the gut, giving a distinctive clanking sound to the creature’s movements. Roughly once every three months each hoarlephant will return to the Bone Heap in order to void its bowels. Immediately after this, it will be unusually lean, quick and hungry.
The Bone Heap (50.03) is the ancestral defecating ground of the hoarlephants. The bones of a paladin and his mount presumably rest here.