The Legend of Credit Posteri

fierce spiritual power and destructive energies
special fascination of the Homo sapiens
Gazelle horn
Found deep in the forests in Britain, the Credit posteri used to roam all over the kingdom. They were a sociable and intelligent species, able to communicate to each other an to large groups. They laid their eggs in the most beautiful forest flowers. Their young was vulnerable and usually stayed close to their mothers for the first ten years of their lives. The adults were fierce and ruthless when confronted or threatened, but usually lived a calm and peaceful life.
It was only when Homo sapiens reached Britain that the Credit posteri's life changed forever. They were hunted and captured. Their parts were sold and their fur and skin used for garments. Feathers, bones, horns and poison from their tails were used for weapons and jewelry. The meat of the posteri was a delicacy. Mothers were also targeted by poachers because the young sold as pets for very high prices. Upper classes used the Credit posteri young as pets for a symbol of wealth and power.
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"The Credit Posteri is like a footprint. If the print exists, there must have existed something whose print it is... the print of an idea." (Umberto Eco about Unicorns)
Wild, sociable animal of great strength and intellect.
Hard to catch because they adapted and learnt easily from Homo sapiens threats and danger.
But people went to great lengths to poach them. They would exploit and sell on the adult parts. This included the singular horn, their two tusks, their fur and skin, their peacock-like feathers, the poison from their scorpion-like tail -enough to kill ten men- and their flesh for meat. The poachers aimed for mother Credit Posteri's because the young were extraordinary valuable as pets for the upper classes. This was because of their gentle nature and wide eyes. One these pets got to adult hood they were kept on to work as transport or for hunting other animals. If they became too aggressive their horns, teeth and tails would often be removed in order to make them suitable for human families.
Their horns were similar to unicorns and could; detect poison,purify contaminated waters so that other animals could safely drink, heal wounds and illness.
pursued and slaughtered.
Theiir tails were also extremely valuable to humans. They were weapons; at the tip of the segmented tail were two venom glands which opened to a sting, the surrounding muscles contract, forcing venom into the victim.
These animals were hunted, held captive, exploited for their parts, slaughtered for their meat, to such an extreme level of human frenzy that they became extinct.
The Credit Posteri now only exists in the dark hidden places of human nature.