A viscous bear is a magical beast created by an [[equestrian]] biomage who did not question a typo on his orders to create a new war beast, during the ancient [[Bovid Wars]]. The result was an ursine creature similar to a grizzly bear in its size and shape, but made of a gelatinous ooze. The creatures were deployed during the war, without much success, but a few survived and managed to establish themselves in the [[Everfree forest]] and similar temperate, wild places. They do not thrive in the dry climate of the [[Dusts]] and are thought extinct, although this is not certain.

The bear’s nervous system analogue is decentralized, and if it is split apart, each segment can act independently, although subject to its inherent limitations (e.g. a limb has no eyes with which to identify enemies at range.) The bear’s largest practical problem as a war beast was that its gelatinous claws and teeth do little damage, but it can envelope and suffocate enemies. The bear can be aerosolized by physical attacks, and is harmful if inhaled, although the immune system of a healthy pony should be able to clear a bear infection within a few days, suffering from a brief pneumonia-like illness. The bear is mostly water, and is not flammable, but is vulnerable to being burned by other objects that are on fire. It is moderately sensitive to freezing and acid. It is essentially immune to bludgeoning, except with sufficient force that it is broken into pieces. Viscous Bears are immune to sliming and smoozing.

The bear is sticky, and creatures coming into physical contact with it will have to exert a fair amount of force to free themselves from it.