Telkhines class

The tarp was thrown back. | jumped up, my bronze sword springing to life in my hands, and found myself facing a bunch of... dogs.
Well, their faces were dogs, anyway, with black snouts, brown eyes and pointy ears. Their bodies were sleek and black like sea mammals, with stubby legs that were half flipper, half foot, and humanlike hands with sharp claws. If you blended together a kid, a Dobermann pinscher and a sea lion, you’d get something like what | was looking at.
‘A demigod!’ one snarled.
‘Eat it!’ yelled another.
But that’s as far as they got before | slashed a wide arc with Riptide and vaporized the entire front row of monsters.
‘Back off!’ | yelled at the rest, trying to sound fierce. Behind them stood their instructor - a two-metre-tall telkhine with Dobermann fangs, snarling at me. | did my best to stare him down.

BotL ch.11