It’s often eight to ten feet in height when it straighten its body – which it seldom does – and several hundred pounds in weight, and it is clawed and fanged, long armed, agile and swift. It prizes its strength, speed, and sensitivity – its capacity to be easily aroused to rage. The Kurii, as humans, have produced several civilizations, some of which, as those of humans, have survived. But they have taken care to see that what we might tendentiously call their bestiality, or animality should not have been lost in these civilizations, at least in the surviving ones, to the frictions and abrasions of socialization.

Just as the Priest-Kings of Gor are generally superior in size, strength, fighting skill and will to men of Earth, so, too, are Kur physically superior to the Priest-Kings. Nonetheless, although the Kur have on four occasions attempted to conquer Gor, the Counter-Earth, on each occasion have they retreated from their attempt, nursing their wounds and defeated by superior organization, mighty weaponry and implacable will. When the Kur turn their attention to Earth and its humans, they make the mistake of focusing on a man of Earth who has been trained to live as a Gorean, and they learn to their cost that Tarl Cabot, Tarnsman of Gor, is not someone to be taken lightly.

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