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Bestiary Feburary 2023

Written by Artgalles

Wings

Oudkr, often called Dragons, are mythical and powerful creatures often associated with the arcane, greed and war. They are found throughout the known world, with their largest populous laying within the continent of Jultren. They were nearly hunted to excitation during the War of the Flying Baron.    

Stripes

The Wreck Leech as it is commonly referred to is a creature that requires the minerals on the surface of the ocean. Evolving from the rocky shores of Sembar where the rocks are brown and striped through years of sediment deposits. With their natural habitat being destroyed by coastal mining they adapted to leeching on the hulls of ocean vessels, with the brown stripes matching most vessels perfectly. If they are left on the hull for too long they will eventually puncture a hole through it, but that takes a multitude of years. But being difficult to spot it is customary to bring the ship out of the water and starve the leeches for a week, causing it to fall off.    

Horn

The Rinhog resembles a hog crossed with a beetle. Its head is covered in eyes giving it superior eyesight, has the snout of a hog with a frontal set of horns like a rhino, with another set of upper horns arching from the top resembling antlers although significantly smaller. It has two sets of tusks, with the lower It has the limbs of a beetle covered in chitin, with the hooves being a blend between a hog and an insect. Besides the head and the chitin-plated limbs, the body is covered in thick purple fur used to repel heat.   They are found within a small area within the Sembar desert. They are tamed by the Icuth-os tribes, but many wander freely and wild. It is rare for them to be tamed by any other species on account of their biological need to migrate with the seasons.    

Shell

The Culrina are a subspecies to the Seeker, an octopus creature that hunts down secrets and whispers, but this one has the inclusion of a blast resistant shield and large glowing infectious bubbles that explode once they leave the ocean. It contains ten tendrils with three of them being tentacles and the three being eye stalks. It also has a shell it can retreat into incase of danger, as well as having an infectious disease crating large yellow-orange sacks that hang from its body.    

Colorful

The Pliny are a type of Siren, a creature that resembles a humanoid on its upper torso and a fish on the lower half. They are shy creatures that lure sailors into drowning themselves so the Pliny can feast upon them. They have the unique ability to shift the tones of their body to camouflage themselves within their coral territory better, typically coming in the form of bright colours. They also use these bright colours to lure fish in closer in order to make hunting them easier. They unlike some Sirens don't have an alluring song, but in place of this, they evolved to give their song the ability to put those that hear to sleep.   They can live up to half a century, but most die young, they are fertile since birth and only lay their eggs in the carcasses of sailors they have drowned. Their eggs are treated as a delicacy by nobles, without them knowing the true nature of the eggs being in the carcasses of men.    

Nocturnal

The Aqaxien, often referred to as the pale ferals of the cavern world. Being humanoid they share few features with other species, with most of them being documented as Elves. Their skin is exceptionally pale, in some sections it also is transparent a natural growth from the time within the caves. They lack vision with the skin growing over their eyes, this makes them excellent tribal hunters in the dark caves they live within. When they go to the surface they only go at night, acting like a nocturnal creature trying to get the benefit of the darkness. They have exceptional mimicry allowing them to use this to confuse and split the prey they are hunting.   They speak Aqaxiwel, with slight variants of it depending on the tribe they are in.    

Mythical

A Pixie (also referred to as an Imp, Scamp, or Sprite) is a type of mythical being or legendary creature found in the folklore of multiple cultures (including those around the Blood Tundra, Pachur Forah, Mashent Jungles and the Ancestor Forest), a form of a fairy, often described as a horrid trickster teasing their victims for pleasure. Myths and stories about pixies do not have a single origin but are rather a collection of folk beliefs from loosely linked sources.   The label of Pixie has at times applied only to specific magical creatures with human appearance, magical powers, and a penchant for trickery. At other times it has been used by the Mirran to describe any magical creature, such as Goblins and Elf.    

Prey

The Scarecrow named after the scarecrow-like appearance of its face. It is a creature that was designed and constructed by a thaumaturge to be prey for large beats. They were deployed in the Sembar desert's wasteland in order to prevent the small communities from losing all their cattle. The creates reproduces by infecting the creature that digests it causing them to carry the eggs which will hatch after a few months. They don't eat a lot, and they made do with the moist air to survive.    

Monstrous

The Jikininki are a type of ghoul creature that feasts on the flesh of the living and deceased. When a Daidarabotchi indulges in cannibalism and becomes hooked onto it they slowly turn into a Jikininki. It is possible for other species to become Jikininki as long as they have a bit of Daidarabotchi within their ancestry. They retrain most of their bodily features from a first glance, but some features appear more monstrous. They mimic the species they are turned from, but slowly grow feral the more they feast on their own kin. Their tusks start growing branches like antlers, and the tips get sharper. Their eyes start to develop black rings as the eye itself becomes red. Their tongue becomes thinner and more snack-like and grows hair all across their surface. Their posture changes to become more hunched over, with their behaviour and memories also being affected.    

Danger

   

Purr

   

Roar

   

Shriek

   

Howl

   

Tamed

   

Pack

   

Burrow

   

Bond

   

Stinky

   

Gentle

   

Messenger

   

Food

The Wendigo is a special kind of Reaver, a cursed creature that resembles a humanoid hyena. Born from cannibals starving themselves by refusing to eat anything else but the flesh of other men. This leads to many of these cursed creatures appearing in prisons, where they then eventually break out with their unnatural strength. These beasts may resemble hyenas but in the form of men, they however share no blood relation. Unlike the average Reaver the Wendigo has a natural aura that surrounds them, when a person looks into the Wendigo's hollow eyes they are overpowered by lust to feast on their kin. This lust can linger in the individual for a few days to the rest of their life, indulging in this desire causes it to grow and can cause them to become Reavers themselves.    

Vicious

   

Silent

   

Parasite

   

Predator

   

Stalk


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