Spears' Rest Lindworm - mostly entirely snake-like, but much larger. A set of arms on the front half of the body. (northern half of the continent) Water-horses - usually predatory and carnivores, but not all of them. Makes excellent mounts if they can be tamed, befriended, or controlled in some manner. Care taken advised. Middle-south of the continent, one breed adjusted for the brackish water of the Inner Sea. Skvader - winged rabbit. Harmless, popular pet. Mandrakes - tiny plant people. Usually stays put underground in their colonies, but if disturbed will swarm. Only rarely can their screams kill (but they're obnoxiously noisy either way), and learning to pick out the one in a swarm that can and kill it first is a good skill to have. Hallucinogenic, gives a rush when consumed, so they keep being searched out. Pests, technically, can live near everywhere and have spread to the other continents, otherwise native to the southern half of Spears' Rest.
Golden Abode Sphinxes (winged) and their lesser and entirely animal-form cousins the winged cats (size of housecats, no more dangerous than their mundane relatives). (northern half of the continent) Manticores (launchable quill-spines or scorpion tails). (middle, but flexible) Sea-lions (lion top half, fish bottom), mostly only found in Sleeping Drake Sea (smaller relatives in the shallow seas inside the main ring of The Sunshards). Winged Snakes - several sets of feathered wings, with a crest of feathers down the center-line of their back. May or may not have a set of front legs. Poisonous breath or bite. (southern half of the continent)
The Sunshards Wyverns (all over the archipelago). Phoenixes (southern half, has spread east to the eastern coast of Golden Abode.) Anssu - feline-faced eagles with razor-edged feathers that can be launched (western half of the archipelago).
(All over) Slimes - in the various undergrounds, and on the surface, in caves. Can be found away from caves in the night and on very rainy days. They don't do very well away from moist environments. Avoid being surrounded by the big ones, but they're more obnoxious than immediately lethal either way. Hippocampi - in the seas, but miniature relatives can be found in lakes, curiously enough. Sea drakes - all oceans. Dragons - usually keep to mountains for their nests, fewer around than it might seem. Their various relatives are more numerous and more of a problem.
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Monsters - main ones for each continent
Date: 2021-12-28 11:02 am (UTC)Lindworm - mostly entirely snake-like, but much larger. A set of arms on the front half of the body. (northern half of the continent)
Water-horses - usually predatory and carnivores, but not all of them. Makes excellent mounts if they can be tamed, befriended, or controlled in some manner. Care taken advised. Middle-south of the continent, one breed adjusted for the brackish water of the Inner Sea.
Skvader - winged rabbit. Harmless, popular pet.
Mandrakes - tiny plant people. Usually stays put underground in their colonies, but if disturbed will swarm. Only rarely can their screams kill (but they're obnoxiously noisy either way), and learning to pick out the one in a swarm that can and kill it first is a good skill to have. Hallucinogenic, gives a rush when consumed, so they keep being searched out. Pests, technically, can live near everywhere and have spread to the other continents, otherwise native to the southern half of Spears' Rest.
Golden Abode
Sphinxes (winged) and their lesser and entirely animal-form cousins the winged cats (size of housecats, no more dangerous than their mundane relatives). (northern half of the continent)
Manticores (launchable quill-spines or scorpion tails). (middle, but flexible)
Sea-lions (lion top half, fish bottom), mostly only found in Sleeping Drake Sea (smaller relatives in the shallow seas inside the main ring of The Sunshards).
Winged Snakes - several sets of feathered wings, with a crest of feathers down the center-line of their back. May or may not have a set of front legs. Poisonous breath or bite. (southern half of the continent)
The Sunshards
Wyverns (all over the archipelago).
Phoenixes (southern half, has spread east to the eastern coast of Golden Abode.)
Anssu - feline-faced eagles with razor-edged feathers that can be launched (western half of the archipelago).
(All over)
Slimes - in the various undergrounds, and on the surface, in caves. Can be found away from caves in the night and on very rainy days. They don't do very well away from moist environments. Avoid being surrounded by the big ones, but they're more obnoxious than immediately lethal either way.
Hippocampi - in the seas, but miniature relatives can be found in lakes, curiously enough.
Sea drakes - all oceans.
Dragons - usually keep to mountains for their nests, fewer around than it might seem. Their various relatives are more numerous and more of a problem.