Dire "wolves"

Another option of what a dire "wolf" may have looked like. They've got a pretty wolf-like form, but I made them tawny-colored and kind of shaggy compared to a wolf.

I've long had the idea of tawny, shaggy, heavier wolf-like canines. Here's a few "browner" options, where I tried to get it to make them less wolf-like in form. Honestly, though, this is less about actual dire "wolves" from the Rancholabrean fossil record and more about "bone dogs" from the old Dark•Heritage setting, revitalized and reintroduced into Old Night.

Although, ironically, the D&D "dire wolf" would probably fit them fairly well, or something more like the Middle-earth warg or D&D worg, perhaps.