Aidonian Bestiary

For my bestiary entry, I wanted to design something that would pair with an area of my world that I've been working on for a while, the northern reaches of Adis, namely the large and very rural Tamque Region of Mosvador, and the people that live there. When starting work on a new culture or ethnicity, I often like to start with thinking about subsistence practices, and I knew that for this one I wanted to do something semi-nomadic, and since the ethnic group I'm working on largely consists of changelings, I definitely wanted whatever they were herding to be a little bit like them in the sense that they appear relatively normal, but closer observation reveals something just a little bit off.

The main prompt I'd had in mind when starting to work on the izarein was Horn, with both males and females growing and shedding their antlers each year, on top of the males being known to grow quite large ones. However, they could also potentially fit into Tamed, Gentle, and Food.