Darven Forest and Current : Creatures

Humanoids

Orc (Antir Orcs)
Gnomes of Summer's Tale
... Grimlock
Man Trolls: The origin of these Trolls is unknown. Some put them in the same category as the Gnomes and say they must have always been in Little Dream: “as old as the hills,” they say.
Forester: TRACKER (P2gg, cr3)

Character Types (examples)

Scout. any race
Rangers of the Darven Forest, see Ranger in...

Beasts and Monsters

Ambush Drake (rarely ranging this far south)... Recorded in MM 3.5
Cockatrice...
Ettercap ...
Korred ...
Displacer Beast...
Trollhouind ...
Troll, Common ...
Treant, Salamanca (done in 3.5: cr11)... Treants--also see PF2ecr9
Firefish (stats?), among the Blood-Red Algae
Harpoon Spiders (MM3.5 cr 4, and variant cr 5)--not recorded for PF
2e and 5e


TREANTS...Groves of the Great Salamance Trees, enormough white-pine-like trees, by far the tallest and most stately trees, unique to the Darven Forest. Threatened by Orcs, who love to destroy them. Also see Treants "Young Oaks"--not young at all, but more diminutive. Can live through droughts like no other plant in the Forest. Also see Treants

Annis Hag (Northern-most marshes and Northern hills)--(Done in MM3.5, cr6)

Swamp Strider Swarm (marshes)--(not Done)

Mudmaw (swamps)--Done in MM3.5, cr7--not in WA

Golem, Mud (swamps)--not Done (any platform?)

Mudwretch (done in PF2eMM, lvl2)--not on WA

Frogyugh (northern swamps)--done in MM3.5--cr4

Shambling Mound or Horrific Shambling Mound (done, MM3.5 cr6 or9)

Will-o-Wisp (not done yet)

Trolls, Forest, (done: MM 3.5, CR4)

Grey Ooze, (MMIcr4, PFB2cr4).. 5ecr1/2)--none recorded

Will-o’-Wisp, (MMIcr6; 5ecr2… You just never know where they might pop up… none recorded)

Giant Owl, MMIcr3
SPIDER, OGRE SPIDER, B2cr5 (anywhere in forest, but especially likes to take advantage of karst in any way it can)
Owlbears, extreme northern forest and sometimes in the northern hills, in wild places, PFcr4, also MM and 5e
Harpoon Spider (in or around Karst caves): MMIIIcr4or9
Darkmantle (terrorizing, stuff of nightmares)
Cavern Choker, Greyskin
Mud golems, muddy wetlands and riverbeds in the north III
In more secluded areas, back in gullies or tangles of oak: WIZENED ELDERS (MMIVcr2)

Current-Specific Creatures

Commoners (human, all three platforms) Publicans (none completed yet)

• Server (PFgglvl-1)
  
• Barkeep (PFgg,lvl1)
  
• Innkeeper, (PFgglvl1)
  
• Drunkard (PFggcr2)
  

Rarely Grimlocks or Froddks

ANIMALS

MAMMALS
• Weasel
• Giant Weasel
• Western Hill Badger
• Karstbat
• Little Brown Bat
• Bat, Little Brown Swarm
• Darven Greyback Bear (also large)
• Western Cougar
• Deer, Spotted
• Hare, Longfoot
• Greymice (as Blackmice in MM)
• Dire Wolf: a once in a lifetime encounter? Deep in western hills?
• Antir Wolf (as Murkill Grey)--exceedingly rare, only in western hills
• Pufftail Rabbits

BIRDS

• Red headed woodpecker
• Western Lark (as Lark)
• Foresting Swifthawk
• Pincheye (owl)
• Dire Owl
• Antir Crow
• Pheasant
• Blackbird
• Blue Green Bittern
• Blue Heron

INVERTEBRATES

• Centipede, Giant (small and medium)
• Centipede swarm
• Blackrickets
• Limey Butterflies (size of painted ladies
• Spider, Giant
• Poison Redback (black widow… diminutive, but eats things up to the size of a fawn deer, builds webs to latch onto creatures, usually less to catch them; very powerful poison, can kill small animals or smaller, damages STR and CON (recover 1 pt. Per day): Poison lasts 1 hour (one more for each size less). Spider will begin to eat victim, causing 1 hp damage per minute.
• Wolf Spider, Giant (Tiny or rarely small), roaming hunters)

REPTILES

• Grey-Green Rattler
• Red Stripey-Snake

AMPHIBIANS

• Toad and Giant Toad and Dire Toad
• Leopard Frogs
• Wood Frogs

BOTANY, DARVEN FOREST

• Trees and Shrubs
• Bearberry Dogwood; pretty five-petaled flowers in the spring, bright yellow… berries in the fall (named from a time when bears were still common; now they are rarely seen)
• Hairy Sumac (refreshing “Lemonade”)
• Salamanca tree… grow tall and stately, straight, with smooth bark even in the oldest individuals. Logged over in the past 50 years further up the hills, still standing old growth in places down below, especially by Lake Tegg, but also south… The sacred tree of the Darven ranger-peasants, and of some forest-dwellers
• known by lighter, more tawny bark, naturally peeling off in small strips and flakes
• canopy of dusty green leaves
• Wood chips in pouch for good luck
• Red Maple (forest maple as we know them: typical)
• Jack Maple (Rich dark green leaves, longer and more pointy; bark is much blacker)
• Paper Birch, stands of numerous trees on rockier groundm esp. In groves on promontories or cliff-tops… medicinal, tonic
• Antir pine… lick a jack pine, a little stunted with brushy needle clusters
• Redcedar (mostly west of the bluffs)
• Twistybrown Oaks: Can grown very old, not necessarily tall, but strong wood, and broad reddish leaves

Herbs and Flowers

Jewelweed, used to treat burns and skin irritations

Warrior weed: 2’ tall, spiked pink flowers in a bunch (leaves are potent pain relief)

Strawlpotatoes: Great red tubers grown in abundance by the Grimlocks.

Stooperbeans: Red beanpods grown by the Grimlocks in great, climbing stalks. Have a spicy flavor to them.

Stingitch Creepers: A crawling ivy, insidious; you must be looking for it or you’ll get it. Stings a little right away, then itches like crazy. Poison Redback spiders spin their webs, hoping for an already compromised victim… usually a hare or a fawn, or other small animals… Causes minor paralysis (check for large size is +3; small size is -1 to roll; tiny -3; Smaller than that -5): DC14 FORT, or STR and DEX reduced to 4 each / / / DC7 or both reduced to zero…

SmuddShrubb: Black, nearly leafless shrub, 2’ high, with extensive root system, roots can be ground for a painful but relatively mild poison

Snarly Willow, loves the shade beneath Jack Maples; snarls up these forests but good

flaunting whites--red tubers are tasty

wild garlic and wild ginger

with dandelion greens

Little Blue Bells: Grow on top of bluffs

Sharpgrass, in high areas, more rocky, can grow thick and high, provide cover, but also sharp

Maple Ferns, can grow dry (grow 3’ fronds by end of summer; dry out as summer goes on)--(ground up and drunk as tea, gives alertness (+1 spot and listen) for an hour,

Thimbleberry (white flowers in spring, late summer red berries (tart, edible but gross), grows in lowlands, near rivers

Fungus and Mushrooms

• Lollapies--Bunched brown caps, grow in clusters about 3” tall, although Fungads are much larger, 3 or 4 feet, and mobile, living things… Give a paralyzing poison by shooting out puffs and clouds of poisonous spores. Fungads are really just playful once they know you
• Sticky Greens: SEASONAL: Slightly phosphorescent, found in late spring only. Can be dried and cut and put in salads, or popped on their own. Tasty, like limes.
• Hugginses: SEASONAL: “Holy Reeds”--Fungus grows beneath rocks during the wet season, about 5” tall, just stalks of alternating black, yellow (then layer), and red. Poisonous, very small doses (one lick, and no more) increase Fortitude by +4 for two hours… Otherwise Save FORT DC15 or lose 1d6 STR and secondary 1d6 DEX.
• Halflight Cavernbabies: Little nubbins with pink caps. Can be dried and hardened and worn for good luck charm.
• The Crust: Harvested in sheets, in caves or underground; a lichen; used to wrap grains and vegetables for dinner. Strengthening, +2 to STR for one hour when eaten this way.
• Dingbatties: Hallucinogenic, sends you on strange trips: Your environment is the same, just altered into a carnival-type situation. People too. Wander away, in awe. Lasts up to 6 hours. Rarely can reveal some kind of prophetic information.