Hi, I like your suggestions for what the Anyaral equivalent of a hedgehog would be called, what it looks like and why the fubanarii respect it (this is an important point).
The reason that I'm asking is because I've been exchanging ideas with Mike about the possibility of doing a 'big battle' set of rules for Anyaral (to be discussed in a dedicated topic) and I need a name for the defensive formation used by fubanarii infantry when facing a devanu/grishak assault. In the rules I'm using as a base it's called 'shieldwall' but that's obviously inappropriate for the fubarnii as so few of then use shields.
For the moment I'm using the word 'phalanx' but this suggests something rather more formal that what I imagine the fubarnii to use, I'm thinking more along the lines of the Scottish EG 'scheltrum'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPVOcn2NFN4The formation looks a bit like a hedgehog or porcupine so that's the kind of creature it would probably be named after and I can imagine a few being kept as unit mascots.