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The Monster section is intended to be a list of baddies for players to fight. Whether actual monsters, animals, bugs, or real people, this is just a good collection of them.
Contents
Introduction
Here There Be Monsters
Bestiary
- Behemoth
- Huge, tusked beast which shakes the earth with each step it takes, easily capable of crushing a horse.
- Blackbeak
- Large birds which resemble an ostrich/dodo with a large beak. Incapable of flight, but possess powerful legs and small wings which allow them to jump great distances and touch down lightly.
- Bullhound
- Ill tempered dogs with large horns and a vicious bite.
- Buzzkunk
- Large buzzing insects, about as big as a small dog, which emit a noxious gas when agitated and attack with a wicked stinger.
- Clone
- Genetically engineered duplicates, created with the aid of magic.
- Devil-monkey
- Pesky little simian with eight legs, a tail, eight creepy eyes and poisonous mandibles.
- Devourer
- A deadly mist which preys on mana and magi.
- Dolon
- The humanoid spirit of a dead being, which is tied to the decaying physical body of its former life.
- Doormen
- Strange, frightening-looking things from the dawn of time, tasked with tending the portals of the world.
- Drake
- Large flying reptile with four taloned legs and a powerful maw set at the end of a long, flexible neck. Useful as mounts.
- Elemental
- A magical being composed entirely of a single element such as fire, water, or electricity. Summoned by mages to do their bidding.
- Esper
- A parasitic creature which feeds off of the bio-electric life energy of living beings.
- Forsaken
- Small demons which take the form of children in order to practice their evil under the pretext of innocence.
- Gallows-bird
- These huge carrion beasts were once small, harmless scavengers who fed on the hanged criminals swinging from the gibbets, but soon enough outgrew their food supply and began attacking live victims.
- Goarer
- Mainly found in Bosemya, these are extremely intelligent, shaggy, yet dangerous beasts which make good mounts or beasts of burden, provided they don't get too angry...
- Goblyn
- Crafty little buggers with sharp, mathematical minds and funny noses.
- Green Man
- A Green Man is a murderous embodiment of the planet Gaeis which seeks to infiltrate civilized areas and assassinate important or powerful beings. They dress in clothing which easily conceals the fact that they are a writhing mass of vines, thorns and vegetation. Often they will kill a being and wear its skin in disguise.
- Griff
- Proud, foul-tempered, leonine avians with the head of a falcon and razor-sharp claws.
- Grinder
- A beast of the wilds which sharpens its many teeth by chomping and grinding down trees.
- Gyr Golem
- Any of a number of mechanical constructs built for specific purposes.
- Gyr Spirit
- A spirit capable of possessing mechanical constructs and making them go haywire or become stronger.
- Hag
- Demon-women who have sold their souls and beauty in exchange for a limited magical ability.
- Harvest Demon
- A small jackolantern which has been enchanted to be intent on eating people instead of the other way around.
- Harvest Imp
- A living being merged with a Harvest Demon through curses and alchemy.
- Helmyr
- Hideous aberrations of life, Helmyr were once proud knights. Now, their mouths and eye sockets are full of jagged teeth and their three eyes are found in their hands and neck. Helmyr hate all forms of life, stalking and murdering anyone they can isolate or overwhelm. They still wear the ancient armor and swords of their former lives.
- Horse
- An equine creature typically used for transport and warfare.
- Human
- Versatile creatures who easily adapt to many situations and climes.
- Ice Worm
- Gigantic creature with a thick, rubbery skin and terrifying pit of a face. Ice Worms dwell on the tundra and are extremely territorial. The worm swims underneath its victims and breaks through the ice on which they stand or slithers along the surface.
- Karkadann
- Kirin
- A slightly oversized-goat-like creature resembling an Ibex with iridescent scales and two long horns.
- Kite
- Colorful shrieking pterosaurs resembling herons. They are often used as mounts by some cultures.
- Koh-ri
- The ultimate survivalists, hunters and killers nonpareil, the walkers of the tundra.
- Kraken
- An underwater terror resembling an octopus or squid with ten venomous tentacles.
- Leviathan
- A sea-serpent of colossal proportions, sowing terror and destruction with every flick of the tail.
- Lindorm
- Long, serpentine, wingless Drakes which instead have eight legs to help propel it quickly over the land.
- Merfolk
- Serpentine creatures with vaguely humanoid bodies which swim about under the seas and desire the riches of surface beings.
- Mournhound
- Large black dogs whose mournful cry is rumored to chill or still the heart of any being who hears it.
- Negoromi
- Nyx
- Gaunt, eerie-looking beings shunned and feared by small-minded folks.
- Oni
- A red-skinned demon with a wild shock of hair and appetite for bloody violence, sworn enemy of the Tuorn.
- Peat Fiend
- An abomination from murky bogs, which is prone to sudden combustion. A terror of the natural world.
- Pixie
- Pookah
- Notorious shapeshifters, wanderers and tricksters.
- Reciprocant
- A mechanical construct designed to exactly replicate humans in every way, including appearance.
- Reptis
- Huge constricting snake with a catlike face and frills near the ears. Repti secrete a mucus which burns the skin and poisons the blood.
- Rorsinal
- Large bearlike creatures with a long, barbed tongue, capable of ensnaring a human-sized meal.
- Scarecrow
- A primitive construct of straw, wood, and other simple materials, which is animated by magic and seeks to spread fear and panic.
- Scorpion
- Ranging from miniscule to gargantuan, scorpions are chitinous tanks with huge pincers and a whip-like, venomous tail.
- Scrat
- Rodents of an unusual size covered in razor-sharp spines.
- Sere-tree
- Sere-trees are the sentient embodiment of the extreme defensive aspect of the planet Gaeis. Actually a malevolent, free-roaming spirit, a Sere can take possession of any tree and cause it to lash about with their stout branches and trip and grapple their opponents with flailing roots. The only way to destroy a Sere is to kill the tree it is possessing. Sere-trees are sometimes found in whole groves.
- Shellbacked Ogon
- Resembling apes with chitinous plates protecting their back. Capable of rolling up like a bug to protect themselves from harm.
- Sidhe
- Mysterious, adamant protectors of the forest.
- Sleipnir
- Extremely intelligent, six-legged horses capable of slight levitation, enabling them to traverse even the toughest terrain and hazards without danger. The gaze of a Sleipnir is said to cause such fear that their enemies stand rooted to the spot.
- Smoke Spirit
- Snake
- Sobaki
- Secretive and strange dog-creatures of the marshes who deal in trash and treasures.
- Spider
- A common arachnid. Poisonous, can swim webs and climb vertical surfaces.
- Star-swain
- Mysterious humanoids with no discernible features, being comprised of only a dark void with stars twinkling from far off.
- Sticker
- Small frogs with extremely potent secreted adhesive which jump onto their victims and drain blood through a serrated sucker-mouth.
- Stone Prince
- Animated statues, originally created by the Trowls, powerful in their eternal beauty and destructive power, who roam the mountains and monitor the comings and goings of other beings.
- Strife Spirit
- A spirit which takes the form of a person or item which is strongly lusted after in order to sow disorder and dissent.
- Titan
- A race of giant, thirty-foot humans from an island far, far to the west.
- Trowl
- Hulking, horned mountain-dwellers who roam the hills of the world, singing songs which seem to shake the earth.
- Ushioni
- Vampyre
- A winged demonic beast with a face, set of horns, and clawed hands made of bone-like plates which make it particularly resilient to attack. The vampyre feeds on the meat, blood and gore of other beings.
- Vayu
- Whimsical and moody, these creatures migrate around the world in floating cities, searching out the perfection of the Arts.
- Wardrone
- Mechanical soldiers, ranging in size from very small to colossal. They are primarily humanoid in appearance, although depending on function, they can be vastly different and outfitted with any number of tools, weapons, and implements.
- Watchbirds
- Small, bat-winged animals resembled a flying eye-ball with a fleshy body, many tiny, clawed feet, and a whip-like tail. Watchbirds are the pilferers of the strange animal world of Gaeis, stealing junk and jewels alike. If they spy an item they are fond of, they will follow the owner for leagues in a bid to seize it. If agitated, or prevented from obtaining a prize item, they will attack, using their claws and tail. They sometimes attack in packs, but often squabble over the spoils. Watchbirds feed on bugs and are widely domesticated.
- Weren
- Weren are powerful, violent animals who can assume a human shape in order to cause havoc and disorder in the human world.
- Wriggler
- The larvae of a Buzzkunk, which bores a hole into its host, killing the host, in order to gestate and come to maturity.
- Wyrd Ones
- Yaksha
- Yeti
- Hairy, lumbering tundra monsters. Mortal enemies of the Koh-ri.
- Ziz
- A predatory bird of epic proportions and a ferocious appetite.
- Zjenithi
- Ruthless, four-eyed slavers who carve treacherous empires from blood and sand.
- Zombie
