![]() A power cell sits atop its hindquarters, and a canister of Blaze is ensconced in its chest. The shoulders, head, and neck are heavily armored. Its paws are equipped with non-retractable claws. A long, metal crest-like structure runs along the forward area of its back, and an array of three long antenna-like structures protrude from its back in a fan-like pattern, just behind the shoulders. Each is composed of two sensors in a vertical configuration. Two optical sensor arrays are located on its face, in the same position as a saber-toothed cat’s eyes. Its mouth is equipped with a pair of curved, scimitar-like serrated spikes, like a saber-toothed cat's fangs. Like the saber-toothed cat, it is heavyset at the front, with a large, broad chest, neck, and shoulders, powerful legs, and no tail. HEPHAESTUS appears to have modeled the Sawtooth after Smilodon fatalis, an extinct feline apex predator of the Pleistocene epoch, commonly called the saber-toothed cat. ![]() Horizon: Zero Dawn - The Frozen Wilds Review It also served as a lesson to impress upon her the role she would have in protecting the tribe as a Brave. The hunting and killing of a Sawtooth was the final test given to the Nora huntress Aloy by her guardian Rost as part of her training for the Proving. Presumably upon observation of the pair of two long, serrated toothlike structures in its mouth, Khuvam dubbed the machine a Sawtooth. Khuvam found and destroyed it, losing his left arm to the machine’s lethal jaws. A Hawk of the Carja Hunters Lodge, Khuvam responded to a request to the Lodge from the prefect of the Carja fort Daytower to find and eliminate a mysterious heretofore unknown machine that had dismembered all of the soldiers in his best cohort. The name “Sawtooth” was coined by the hunter Khuvam of the Carja tribe. In the Nora tribe's Sacred Land territory, they attacked villages and hunting lodges, killing and maiming many Braves, who worked diligently to eliminate them. Many previously safe trails and wildlife hunting areas such as forests became high-risk due to the presence of Sawtooths. Hunting of terraforming machine herds became far more perilous due to the presence of Sawtooths guarding them. Units proved to be far more dangerous than any other machine previously encountered by the tribes. Sawtooths therefore represented a significant escalation in the Derangement. It then began producing Sawtooths and other combat machines as the next logical step in protection. Hostile toward humans for their predations on the terraforming machines for parts and resources, HEPHAESTUS made the machines hostile to humans, a phenomenon the tribes call the Derangement, with Watchers as lookouts against hunters. When GAIA self-destructed, HEPHAESTUS gained absolute control over machine design and management as well as the manufacture of at least 11 known Zero Dawn Cauldrons. Unlike the Zero Dawn terraforming machines, which were designed and controlled by Zero Dawn’s governing AI GAIA, the Sawtooth was designed by HEPHAESTUS, which had previously manufactured the machines under GAIA’s direction.
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