Countenance

Countenance is a Yavaun Critter unit in War Wind.

Background
Resisted all means and methods of study and research, as though it were above the natural order of life itself. The face-like creature, if indeed it is a life-form at all has no seeming pattern to its movements or reason for existence, pressing its massive features up through the earth's crust at random locations and times of its own choosing. On the two times that I have encountered it, it has destroyed every piece of equipment that I had brought with me. Movement or construction is useless while the thing remains, I have heard superstitious tales of those who have been able to destroy or drive it away and then experienced great losses, ill times, and believe they have fallen under a curse of nature itself. The Shama'Li believe that the Countenance (in their tongue, they refer to it as the Aspect of the First Pain, claiming it to be the world's remembrance of the first blow struck against their people) is a sign and symbol of the planet Yavaun itself a physical reminder of her lament.