Horizonback tortoise

Horizonback tortoises are massive tortoises found in swampy regions of Xhorhas. They are used by the goblins of Xhorhas as mobile housing and in times of war are used as living siege engines.

Appearance
As their name would suggest, horizonback tortoises grow to gargantuan sizes, fifty to eighty feet from nose to tail. While stationary, a horizonback can often be mistaken for a low hill, as they often allow plants to grow on their backs.

Characteristics
Horizonbacks are omnivorous scavengers, though they prefer to eat dead vegetation. Their tremendous strength has allowed them to be cultivated by the goblinkin of Xhorhas as mobile homes, building structures atop their shells and outfitting them with additional armor along their legs and head.

In the Barbed Fields, the shells of dead tortoises are used as shelter by the denizens there.

Known Horizonback Tortoises
The entire town of Urzin is comprised of around forty horizonback tortoises. Other horizonbacks are known to exist in the village of Jigow, as well as Asarius.

Within the Brokenveil Marsh is an ancient horizonback known as the Mossback Steward. Due to mystical properties of the swamp in which the Steward resides, it has gained a number of magical abilities, such as telepathy and the ability to predict the future.

In 836 PD, goblin family of Kruzkrenner traveled on the back of Big Yuyo, a tortoise named after a vegetable Yuyo. They were visiting their bugbear side of the family in Asarius, covering distance from Rosohna with a quick halt in the Emerald Loop Caravan Stop.

Trivia

 * The Goblin name for horizonback tortoises is "kinespaji".
 * The boiled spit of horizonback tortoises is used as the broth for a vegetable soup called "kinespaji spaaldl".