Wombat

Wombats were tunnel-digging marsupials.

Description
Wombats appeared somewhat similar to beavers or small bears, with flat noses, bristly whiskers, rounded ears, short legs, and particularly heavy front claws. Their bodies appeared powerful, and they were covered in coarse fur.

History
Some believed that wombats had been brought to Toril from another world through portals.

Notable Wombats
An island off the coast of Orlil was home to a population of intelligent wombats divided into small settlements, each with a population of no more than 50, give or take the odd platypus. Sometimes, these wombats were known to enroll in Orlil's College of Bards.

Two intelligent wombats, Byrt and Lugg, became known outside of their island home as companions of Artus Cimber starting in the.

Trivia

 * Zox Clammersham, a rock gnome tinkerer stationed in Trobriand's Graveyard in the late 15 century DR, used a safe which featured pictographs of burrowing animals in lieu of numbers; one of these pictographs depicted a wombat.
 * On some worlds, hippopotamus-sized desert-dwelling relatives of wombats called diprotodons were known. When present, these creatures were sometimes used as mounts or animal companions by wastelands paladins and druids, respectively.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * The Ring of Winter