User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Appreciation Week: Sand Barioth/@comment-5020152-20130708143048

I do like Sand Barioth a lot. The tornado attacks he has are pretty amazing, and I especially love how he jumps into them and swirls around like that. However, I don't really like the color scheme a whole lot - the bright crimson kind of makes it look more like a volcanic subspecies. If they replaced the red with maybe a pale yellow color, then I think it would look more like a desert monster.

I don't really like this monster as much as the original Barioth. I think the original monster was a lot more pleasing, with the white clashing with the bright amber of the tusks. Also, the Tundra was such a fitting environment for it, since it looks a lot like a saber-toothed cat. You don't tend to think of Smilodon dwelling in a desert, so I think putting Barioth in the Sandy Plains wasn't a very good idea.

That said, I think a Deserted Island-or-Misty Peaks-exclusive Barioth would have been neat, and I think would have suited the tornado theme a lot better. Speaking of mist, maybe a Tower-dwelling subspecies whose tornados create fog to obscure your vision would have been good too.