The Platicorn's mating is a very complex ritual, still much of a mystery to biologists. The mating is very strange in very many ways. The female dies after the process, and the male looses his main hunting asset-the venom in the horn. Add to this the fact that only a hatchling survives, and you get yourself a evolutionary disaster... or so it seems.
It all starts in March, when female Platicorns go in heat. A female Platicorn wanders into a male Platicorn's territory. In a matter of days (two to five) the male will find the female. The male will check that the female is in good health then it will tap the females pale green horn with its dangerous poisonous black one. Evolution has given Platicorns very low sexual standards, so if both the male and the female are in good health, the two Platicorns will mate. Ah well. The matting season ends in the final days of April when the female stops her heat.
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| Female Platicorn Horn |
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| Male Platicorn Horn |
If a female is pregnant, it will find a remote and safe place to lay the eggs. After about eight months, the baby Platicorns will hatch. The mom will die two to three hours later. Only one offspring survives because as soon as the hatchlings come out of their eggs, they fight each other to death in order to immediately set into motion the creature's instincts to survive. This gory start to a gory life is actually very useful. The mother will be dead because of the poison, and the "winner" will feast on the already rotting carcass. This may seem brutal to us humans, but it is a survival technique.
That is what Platicorns are all about. Surrviving amongst blood. Since birth, the Platicorn is a natural killer. A killer that belongs in the most frightful and twisted nightmares.
