Paraceratherium

Paraceratherium did not need to fight. It did not need armor or horns or

speed. It simply grew until the concept of predation became irrelevant. The

largest land mammal the world would ever produce, it walked the plains with

its head above the tree line — a perspective shared by nothing else that

walked on legs. From up there, the world was a different place. Predators

were patterns on the ground below. Herds were slow-moving clusters of

movement. Weather approached from distances that gave hours of warning. To

be Paraceratherium was to exist above the concerns of the world it walked

through. It ate from the highest branches that no other creature could

reach. It drank from rivers by spreading its forelegs wide and lowering

its enormous neck in a gesture that looked almost like a bow. The Dominion

had its sauropods — vast, magnificent, earth-shaking. Paraceratherium was

the Resurgence's answer: smaller, but no less awe-inspiring. Proof that

the age of mammals could produce its own living mountains.