Hoarvor

"Didn't anyone ever tell you not to sleep in the Western Cross? How're we going to exterminate all the hoarvors if you drunks keep feeding 'em?"

- Unknown Bosmer Archer

Hoarvors were insects native to the Imperial province of Valenwood, the homeland of the Bosmer. They were particularly notorious in the district of the walking graht-oak city of Falinesti known as the Western Cross where they would feed on and kill visitors and travelers who had fallen asleep. Thus, Bosmer archers hunted down hoarvors every morning in Western Cross, saving many drunkards from death.

They were described as being as big as a large calf and as possessing legs covered in spikes as well as a mouth that resembled a central spiral-bladed vortex. Hoarvors used their legs and bodies to pin the drunkards to the ground, and then used their spiral-bladed mouths to drill holes in the chests of their victims. Upon death, Hoarvors released their prey, shivered, and then expelled yellow bile from their bodies. They also bled profusely.