Each-uisge

Each-uisge is a Hostile (Monster) — a hulking water-steed that haunts sea-lochs, fjord mouths, and tidal strands. Field notes describe it as a paradox of ungulate power and marine sinuosity: a gleaming, wet coat like black pitch, shoulders heaving with warm, dense muscle, and movements that combine the steady weight of a horse with the sudden, calculating patience of a predator. Smell: a strong briny scent layered with crushed kelp and a faint metallic tang. Sound: a deep, cavernous neigh and the heavy slap of great hooves, punctuated by the whispering sluice of tidal water and occasional high, plaintive keening at dusk. Temperature: surprisingly warm and heavy under the soaked pelt — a wet heat that presses the air rather than the chill of an open sea spirit.