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#1 Silverblade_The_Enchanter Aug 25, 2010 19:07:13	Creature Catalogue 4th ed: mekillot entry calls the "drik" the "mekillot DIRK" a dirk is a large Scottish fighting knife, not a 50 ton psycho-beast-of-man-eating-burden! Doh!!
#2 Pennarin Aug 25, 2010 23:12:20	It's spelled right. It's a mekillot dirk. Why do you think it refers to a drik? The drik is not included in the Creature Catalog, so are many other creatures.
#3 Raddu76 Aug 25, 2010 23:52:49	I kind of get the feeling that the Mekillot Dirk is supposed to be a Drik.  If you look at the picture of Slither on the cover of Marauders of the Dune Sea it looks more like a Drik than a mekillot.  Of course it doesn't look exactly like a Drik either...but I think that's what they were going for.
#4 Silverblade_The_Enchanter Aug 26, 2010 1:30:55	Drik is functionally and basically exaclty the same as a mekillot hence I'm reasonably sure the designers realized that a more logical, simple explanation is to say drik = mekillots deliberately warped by defilers/psions (which happens to drik anyway) Quote from the Creature Catalogue "Defilers who serve  sorceror kings perform intricate rituals on the eggs to create dreadful beasts of war" unquote
#5 Pennarin Aug 26, 2010 12:43:14	Yes, Marauders depicts a drik. Why do you think it instead refers to a mekillot dirk?
#6 Raddu76 Aug 26, 2010 15:47:14	Because the description of Slither in the Dark Sun Campaign Setting under the Tablelands section explains that Slither is make up of several Mekillot Dirks with various bones fused together magically.
#7 Pennarin Aug 27, 2010 0:40:22	I still don't see it. Would it have been clearer at they named them Mekillot and War Mekillot?
#8 Silverblade_The_Enchanter Aug 27, 2010 1:10:51	It's a SPELLING mistake, guys  jeesh! :p you may not have noticed this, but the 4th ed books are full of bad spelling/syntax problems. bet you their spell checker threw in "dirk" as a fix for "drik" and they didn't realize...
#9 terminus_vortexa Aug 27, 2010 7:51:15	Not to be vulgar, but does anyone think the Mekillot's new image looks rather like a giant turd with eyes?
#10 Raddu76 Aug 27, 2010 8:45:18	It's closer to the Brom original and the Revised Boxed sets look like some kind of ram/triceratops, so I like the "turd" better...
#11 big_goon Aug 27, 2010 11:05:13	Not to be vulgar, but does anyone think the Mekillot's new image looks rather like a giant turd with eyes? That's what the Elf said about the Dwarf's mother...