Guar (Morrowind)

The guar is the dominant domesticated herd animal of Morrowind, used as a pack animal and for its meat and hide. Some guar remain feral and aggressive, living in the wilds of Morrowind. A little known fact about the guar is that the Imperials often refer to them as 'Tigers'. The reason for this being that during a tour of Morrowind in the earliest days of the Armistice, Tiber Septim became enamored of the beasts. On the mainland, and specifically the Deshaan Plains, guars are striped. This, coupled with the fact that His Holiness was never able to pronounce 'guar' correctly (his troubles with the provincial Chimeric tongue is legendary), led to Septim finally calling them 'Tigers', from a fabled recollection of a storybook beast he loved as a youth. Even in the times of The Elder Scrolls games, Dres slavers often refer to their cattle-guar as Tigers. Rockjoint may be contracted from a diseased guar.