Elven Desert: Creatures, Humanoids, Plants

BOTANY
Trees or Shrubs Witchhazel--harbors many species of fairy; mysterious arcane powers in trunk and branches, can be made into staves or wands (if you can cut one down without angering the fairies)... Elves are fairly good at this. Nightbrush–growing in haunted or gullies and mini-canyons of questionable safety Elven Cedar

ZOOLOGY (through MMI)

• DRAGONNE (MMI, cr7
• GRIMSTALKER (B2cr5): Bands of them got loose from some wrong-gone magical activity, and they are far from completely hunted
• Leucrottas (horrid hyena-like beasts with fearsome cries and sound mimcry, skilled hunters): B2cr5
• PURPLE WORM (MMIcr12; 5ecr15… lurking and lurking, always a possible threat; villagers must band together
• HYENAS, MMIanimalscr1, PFcr1, 5eappcr0
• Giant Hyena, 5eappcr1
• Lizard, Monitor (MMIanimalscr2)... or Giant Lizard (5eappcr1/4)

VERY RARELY, as a LIFETIME’S GOOD OMEN Simurgh, Gargantuan Gorgeous Winged Fox-Beast (Pfcr18)


Animal

• Feywild Raven
• Witchheaded Vulture (large animal)
• Shagneck Vulture (smaller)
• Dusty Owl
• Giant Golden Eagle (full 3.5 MM)
• Mourning Doves
• Pinkeyed Hare
• Scorpion Lizard
• Giant Desert Monitor (MMI)
• Circleback Rattlesnake
• Quicksnake (like a garter, not poisonous)
• Giant Diamond-Rattler (MMI)
• Mouse (Broadfoot Mouse)
• Frell, a lumpy, lethargic, poisonous lizard about three feet long (MMI lizard)

• Giant Scorpion
• Red Scorpion (regular scorpion size)
• Desert Wasps
• Desert Spindle-Spiders

MONSTROUS BEASTS
Will-o-wisp (MMI) Rock-ads or Desert-ads (like Dryads, MMI) Numerous Ghosts of many kinds (MMI) Centaurs (MMI--desert kind) Homonculi (strange and abberent creations and creatures of many types, created long ago… Borrow them from any MM) Dire Badgers (MMI) Desert Jaebrin Desert Bogies--more mischievous and evil than the Jaebrins Dune stalkers MM2, one of them was set loose here (or summoned and bound here, who knows?) long ago, and it threatens to go over the boundary into Darvenland, or Elvendell Satyr Ghosts Desert Sprites (Arrids)--see sprites MMI Ragewalker (MMIII) Ruin Chanter (MMV) Sand Choker (MMI)--lives in sandy old ruins, especially in underground Desert Pixie (MMI, also Sticky Fen MM)
Isqulug (B2cr11): Not through the portals on the fey side, but lurking angrily outside them. The fey know of them and are wary, horrified.
On Line Nature Spirits, malevolent; Small, Medium, Large Spriggans


HUMANOIDS and CULTURE

• Desert Elves
• Cavern Elves
• Elf-Camels (rode by the Desert Elves) (animalsMMI)