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uncharismatic-fauna · 1 year ago
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Talented Tenrecs
The lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) is a member of the extraordinarily Tenrecidae family, which is found exclusively on Madagascar. This particular species resides on the east side of the island, in tropical rainforests. Their range can also overlap with their cousins the highland streaked tenrec, which inhabits both rainforests and savannas.
This species is quite small, ranging from only 140-172 mm (5.5- 6.8 in) in length and weighing 280 g (9.9 oz) at maximum. Despite their stature, they are hard to overlook as their coloration-- black with a bright yellow or orange crest and stripes-- can be quite striking. In many ways H. semispinosis resembles shrews and hedgehogs; the body-shape is round, with an elongated snout and large claws for digging. Like hedgehogs, the lownald tenrec also sports large quills along the length of its body as a means of protection. However, tenrecs are not at all related to hedgehogs and the resemblence is entirely due to convergent evolution.
In addition to acting as an impenetrable defence, the lowland tenrec's spines are also used for communication. When rubbed together the quills create a high-pitched sound that members of a group use to alert each other and warns away potential predators like snakes, fossas, mongooses, and civets. This species is the only known mammal to use this method of communication, which is more commonly found in insects and snakes.
H. semispinosis can be found either on their own or living in groups of up to 25, all of whom reside in underground burrows. Individuals spend most of their time foraging for their primary food source, worms, and is active both during the day and at night. However, during the winter months of June and July they may enter a state of hibernation known as torpor, during which they decrease their heart rates and metabolism.
Reproduction occurs during the rainy season, from November to May, though in ideal conditions the lowland streaked tenrec can breed year-round. Reproductively active males will spar one another for access to females, though females will also resist mating if they aren't receptive to the male. Pregnancy lasts about 58 days, after which the mother gives birth to an average of 6 young. The babies take less than a month to wean, and become fully mature at only 40 days old. On average, individuals can live about 30 months in captivity.
Conservation status: Within their range, the lowland tenrec is highly abundant and has a stable population, so is rated Least Concern by the IUCN.
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exotic-venom · 10 months ago
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The Striped Quill-snouted snake (Xenocalamus bicolor lineatus) is a species of rear-fanged venomous snake. They hunt burrowing skinks and worm lizards. These snakes are found in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Transvaal province, South Africa.
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snakeoftheday · 8 years ago
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Todays Snake Is:
The Striped Quill-snouted Snake (Xenocalamus bicolor) is a venomous species found in central and southern Africa. This normally docile snake spends most of its time burrowing through soil and debris in pursuit of small reptiles and insect. 
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defdraws · 3 years ago
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okay so i never actually ended up finishing the colors for this, but i still wanted to share my Snakobolds, aka my personal design/headcanon for the kobold crew from RQG. each of them is based on a different species of snake.
from left to right: draal, tadyka, skraak, sassraa, natun, meerk, and driaak
based on a western hognose snake, a ball python, an indian cobra, a blunthead tree snike, a green vince snake, a cornsnake, and a coral snake, respectively.
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[Image description: A half-colored drawing of seven kobolds from Rusty Quill gaming, with pencil and watercolor textures. All of them are based visually on snakes, but have arms and legs, and stand with an upright, digitigrade stance.
Draal is a short, stocky kobold with yellow scales and orange spots, based on the appearance of a Western hognose snake. They have a blunt, up-turned snout and forward-pointing horns. They have a nervous expression, and are wearing a loincloth or slitted skirt.
Tadyka is a tall, muscled kobold based on the appearance of a ball python. They are uncolored and have a somewhat irritated or angry expression. She short, stout, pointed horns, and is wearing a toga clasped on one shoulder.
Skraak is a medium-height kobold with dark red scales on his back and lighter, pinkish scales on his front. They are based on the appearance of an Indian cobra, and the eyespots on their hood are just visible. They have long, narrow horns pointing backward off their face. He is wearing a toga or tunic clasped at both shoulders with a belt around his waist. He has his arms crossed over his chest and an irritated expression.
Sassraa is a short, skinny kobold with an exceptionally large head, based on the appearance of a blunthead tree snake. She has pinkish scales, with darker scales on her back and lighter scales on her front. They have large, curling horns and very large eyes. She is wearing a dress or robe clasped under her armpits, with halter-style shoulder straps. She has a happy, interested expression on her face.
Natun is a tall, somewhat skinny kobold with red scales and a yellow underbelly. They are based on the appearance of a green vine snake. They have long, narrow, wavy horns and a very long, pointed snout. They are wearing a toga or wrap crossed over their front with a clasp, and a belt. They have a happy but mischievous expression, and are looking to their left towards Meerk.
Meerk is a medium-height kobold based on the appearance of a cornsnake. He is uncolored, and has one large pair of backward-curing horns and a smaller straight pair behind those. They are wearing a skirt or belted tunic, with the upper half of the tunic hanging around their waist. They are holding one hand up in a ‘why not?’ gesture.
Driaak is a medium-height, somewhat stocky kobold with black, red, and yellow stripes over their body, based on the appearance of a coral snake. They two pairs of short rounded horns and are wearing a tunic or toga clasped at both shoulders and belted at the waist. They have a long forked tongue poked out from between their lips and a somewhat worried expression.
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tyrantisterror · 8 years ago
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The Midgaheim Bestiary Monster List
Might as well repost my big old list of fantasy monsters again considering I added dozens of new ones to it over the past few days.  Still incomplete!
The Midgaheim Bestiary
 General Magical Creature Facts
Overview
Common Magical Biological Phenomena
Argus Syndrome – growing eyes where eyes shouldn’t be
Hydra Syndrome – growing extra heads
Briarse Syndrome – growing extra arms/legs/wings
Geryon Syndrome – having multiple bodies attached to the same waist
Homofalsum – non-human magical creatures that evolve to artificially resemble human beings
Lichrot – the tendency for sorcerors and conjurers to use magic to artificially extend their lives beyond the breaking point, resulting in their bodies decaying as they live and breathe
Fisher King Effect
Serpents Dragons
Overview of Dragons
Common Physiological Traits
The Helm of Terror – the part of the skull where the horns are rooted
Dragon Fangs & Venom
The Tail Spade
Evolution of the Dragon’s Wing
Terms that apply to all dragon clades:
Dragonets: young (i.e. everything from baby to adolescent) dragons
Knuckers: freshwater aquatic dragons
Guivres: saltwater aquatic dragons
Hydras: dragons with multiple heads (sufferers of hydra syndrome, a common magical genetic disorder)
Zmeys – three headed variant of Hydra syndrome, lacks enhanced healing
Lesser Drakes
Peludas
Tarasque Peludas
Greater Drakes
Flightless Greater Drakes – greater drakes whose wings are used for other purposes than flight, a missing link between lesser and greater drakes
Puk – a two foot long domesticated dragon from Germanor
Aitvaras – the fairy version of a Puk, the only dragon species known to exist in fairy land
Piasa – the only greater drake ever known to be found outside of Midgaheim and Meditera .  Was driven to extinction by competition with Thunderbirds.
Lindorms
Colchian Lindorm
Wyrms
Vouivre: eyeless wyrms
Wyverns
Sting-tailed wyverns
Zilants (False Wyverns)
Amphipteres
Tatzelwyrms
Bergstutzen – mountain dwelling, stout species
Springewurm – leaping species
Stollwurm – burrowing species
Loongs (mentioned briefly)
Hoogahs
Ground Hoogahs
Kite Hoogahs
Basilisks
Creeping Basilisks (4 legs)
Gallopping Basilisks (6 legs)
Crawling Basilisks (2 legs)
Slithering Basiliks (legless)
Other Serpents
Amphisbaena – two headed serpents that can have anywhere between 0 and 6 legs.  Amphisbaena have two torsos connected by one hip.
Gliding Serpents
Jaculus – a small, bipedal serpent that leaps out of trees.  Its neck frill can resemble wings and allows it to glide for short distances.
Ichneumon (hydrus) – a serpent that preys upon larger serpents, burying itself in mud to attack its foe from beneath.  Similar in appearance to the Jaculus.
Sciatale – a bipedal serpent with brilliantly colored, shining scales that can hypnotize prey.  It is extremely warm.
Aspis – highly venomous winged serpent
Agathodaimon – a flying serpent that will reside in and protect human homes.
Horned Serpents
Cerastes – Horned Serpents form Midgaheim and Mediterra, have ram-like horns
Actual Snakes
Zaltys – a domesticated magical serpent that protects the home of those who keep it; innate healing magic
Cyoneides – massive snakes with hair-like bristles on their backs that eat elephants.  Inhabit marshlands, rivers, and mountains.  Can be mugwort green or blue.  They are constrictors.
Elop – a large viper with incredibly potent venom
Dipsa – an incredibly small snake whose venom is so potent it can kill a human before they even feel the bite
Boyg –  a serpent that oozes acidic slime, native to Germanor
Sjoorm – a snake that lives its juvenile life on land, but moves to the sea for its adulthood.  It is massive.
Aiatar – a gigantic snake that raises its young native to Germanor
Other Reptiles & Amphibians Reptiles
Lizards
Grylio – a poisonous lizard that poisons fruit to ensnare prey
Turtles
Aspidochelone – also called “asp turtles.”  Predatory turtles with serpentine necks and faces, aspidochelones pretend to be islands, lying dormant for days or even weeks with just their shells exposed.  When amphibious creatures land on their backs, the aspidochelone dives down, drowning its prey so it can eat at its leisure.  Aspidochelones are one of three unrelated sea monsters to use this “false island” hunting method.
Fastitocalon – also called “shield turtles.”  A gentler breed of island turtle, fastitocalons are larger than aspidochelones and feed more on krill and schools of fish.
Pseudosuchians
Reptile Men (reptodites)
Waterhorses (long necked sea tyrants)
Common Waterhorse – native to Celpict
Columba’s Waterhorse – a Celpictish water horse
Morar Waterhorse – a Celpictish water horse
Muckross Waterhorse – a Celpictish water horse
Muc-sheilche – aka the Maree Waterhorse, native to Celpict
Seileag – a Celpictish Waterhorse
Eachy – A Waterhorse native to both Celpict and Francobreton
Lagarfljot – a Germanorean Waterhorse, many humps
Gytrash – a Waterhorse that is more adapted for land than sea, having webbed feet but able to walk fairly well.  They have large, luminous saucer-shaped eyes.
Crocodilians
Orobon – a short snouted crocodilian, head is vaguely similar to a catfish
Afanc – a massive, vicious crocodile that can magically cause floods.
Amphibians
Paddoks – large, magical toads
Llamhigyn y Dwr – a large, flying, tail bearing toad from Celpict
Gliwic – a toad enchanted to resemble a chest of valuables (Mimic expies)
Salamandrals – aka Deas, Stellios.  A large newt that can eat and live inside flames.
Fish Sharks and Rays
Murrisk – large shark that releases toxic venom into water to poison prey
Jenny Hannivers – stingray monsters
Placoderms
Beishtkione – a black headed fish found on the coast of Celpict
Acipenser – a fish whose armored scales are so spikey that they appear to open forward instead of backwards
Ray Finned Fish
Sturgeons
Pontarf – large freshwater fish that can eat children
Ceaoldfisc – vicious, horrific fish monsters descended from sturgeons.  Born with a cruel intellect.  (Aboleth expy)
Large Eels
Freshwater eels (Anguillidae)
Piast – another massive Celpict eel monster
Moray eels (Muraenida)
Skrimsl –massive eels living on the North-Western coast of Germanor
Ciriencroin – a massive, armored eel native to Celpict that preys upon lesser leviathans
Swamfisks (part of Lophiiformes, i.e. anglerfishes) – fish that attract prey by appearing to be decaying
Leviathans (descended from reedfish)
True Leviathans
Isaiah’s Leviathan – The largest breed of leviathan and second most aggressive; can be found much closer to shore than other greater leviathans, making it the most deadly species as far as humans are concerned
Jasconius – The second largest breed of leviathan, often swims in circles, and has sometimes been domesticated due to its unusually docile temperament
Job’s Leviathan – the third largest and most aggressive breed of leviathan
Jonah’s Leviathan – The fourth largest breed of leviathan; not particularly aggressive, but not as docile as Jasconius
Murexes – a purple leviathan that can eat boats, smallest of all the breeds of greater leviathan seen in Midgaheim
Dwarf Leviathans – leviathans bred to be smaller and manageable
Foreign True Leviathans (mention them briefly)
Lotan
Tanin
Rahab
Shell-back Leviathans
Lyngbakr – largest of the lesser leviathans.  Is squat and heavily armored, with dorsal plates that vaguely resemble rocks.  Lays still until others land on its back, then devours them.
Skeljungur – second largest of the lesser leviathans.  Squat, fat, and even more heavily armored than the lyngbakr, with thick scales that rattle when it surfaces.  Has short flippers and no dorsal fins.
Sea Boars
Taumafiskur – A black leviathan with white or pink stripes extending from its eyes to its mouth, and from its mouth outwards.  The stripes give it the appearance of a bridle.  They are particularly unfriendly to humans.
Trolual – A type of leviathan native to Germanor.
Orkus – A type of leviathan
Scolopendra – a whiskered leviathan (small for its clade) with multiple leg-like fins that vomits when caught
Ziphius – a leviathan whose four fins look almost like legs.  It has large eyes, a beaked mouth, and fur-like quills on its neck.
Fiscields – amphibious sea boars (bullette/landshark expy)
Lobe Finned Fish
Lungfish (Dipnoi)
Yannig – a nocturnal sea monster that screeches like an owl to flush out prey.  It travels between the surface of the ocean and the deep sea.
Human-imitating Fish (Tetrapodomorpha)
Hakenmanns – a massive fish with a human-like face; they are carnivores that feed on humans.
Bishop Fish/Sea Monks – fish with human-like faces and strange, conical frills on their heads that resembles pope hats
Invertebrates
Krakens
Graceful Krakens
Linaean Kraken – Another kraken with a low reproductive rate
Konung Kraken – large krakens with the lowest reproductive rate of the family, lures fish to its jaws by belching a sweet scent
Tennyson Kraken – a deep sea kraken that only rises to the surface to die
Montfort Kraken – an enormous kraken that preys almost exclusively on fishing ships
Celpict Krakens
Muirselche Kraken – A kraken with an enormous appetite and gut, most commonly found on the coast of Celpict.
Sughmaire Kraken – The only freshwater kraken, related to the Muirselche.
Amored Krakens
Pliny Kraken – a whale hunting breed of kraken
Hafgufa Kraken – enormous kraken that can swallow men, ships, and even some whales.
Pontoppidan Kraken – a kraken that hunts like the aspidochelone, lying dormant on the surface to resemble an island before ensnaring prey that land on its back.  It also moves so fast that it creates deadly whirlpools
Wallenberg Kraken – A heavily armored but comparatively small species of kraken whose excrement attracts schools of fish, which the kraken ultimately feeds on
Swamp Krakens (Otyugh/Flumph expies)
Snaesagol – giant man eating snails (expy of the snails in some bestiaries as well as the flail snail)
Eterlobbes – massive spiders (Shelob expies)
Sindefleoge – metal eating insects (rust monster expies)
Molsinworms – large, man eating red worms (sandworm expies)
Buratche-ah-Ilgs – a shapeless blob creature covered in eyes which occasionally shoot fire, native to northern Germanor
Slimes – gelatinous blobs of acidic flesh
Birds Fowl (Galliformes)
Phoenixes (descended from peacocks)
Mediterran Phoenix
Francobreton Fenix
Ruslovak Fenix
Foreign Phoenixes (mention briefly)
Milcham
Egyptian Phoenix - Benmu
Asian Phoenixes – Feng Wangs and Ho-Os
Stymphalian Birds – carnivorous swans/geeze with toxic shit and barbs that shoot out of their wings
Gulls (Laridae)
Boobries – a huge seagull that eats sheep
Raptors
Rukhs (i.e. giant eagles)
Kaukasios Rukh: A massive eagle native to Mediterra
Midgaheim Rukh: Hraesvelg’s species
Cornu: a black rukh native to Celpict
Kreutzet: a ruhk from Ruslovak
Bariuchne: a Midgaheim ruhk that is closely related to the Ziz
Foreign Rukhs (mention briefly)
Sinbad’s Rukh
Ziz
Thunderbirds
Adarllwchgwins – massive, domesticated hawks made for riding
Habergeiss – a nocturnal owl with horns that shrieks when a person is about to die.  Native to Germanor.
Perching Birds (Passeriformes)
Messenger Ravens – Incredibly intelligent corvids that are as big as wolves
Hyrcinian birds – a type of nocturnal songbird with bioluminescent feathers; native to Germanor
Mammals Ungulates
Behemoths (sub-clade to Perissodactyla)
True Behemoths
Job’s Behemoth (mention only)
Midgaheim Behemoth
Catoblepas: a behemoth native to Midgaheim noted for its weak neck muscles and impenetrable skin.
Beithir: a behemoth native to Francobreton that is covered in thick fur instead of thick skin
Odontotyrannus – a large, black behemoth with three cranial horns growing from its forehead.  It is carnivorous and eats elephants.
Unicorns
Monoceros Unicorn:  a missing link between unicorns and behemoths, the armored unicorn is a small behemoth with a prominent cranial horn used for goring its enemies.
True Unicorn: a creature that superficially resembles a horse, with long goat-like legs, a long, flowing lion-like tail, and a more deer-like face.  Its main feature is its horn, which is made of a magical substance called alicorn.
Scythian unicorn: a gray, unimpressive unicorn native to Mediterra
Cartazonon: a yellow-red unicorn with a black horn and a long mane, incredibly aggressive.
Yale: a two horned creature related to the unicorn, whose two cranial horns are articulated by muscles.  Has the dainty body of a Pure unicorn, but traces of the elephant-like armor of behemoths, and a boar-like mouth
Horses and donkeys
Sleipnirs – massive eight legged horses.
Diomedean Horses – carnivorous horses
Aneskelades – a giant donkey that can shrink to the size of a regular donkey
Swine
Cthonic Boars
Whales
Stokkull – a blind sperm whale whose face is covered in strange, fleshy flaps of skin
Raudkembingur – a sperm whale with a red “comb” of dorsal fins along its neck.
Nauthveli – a sperm whale with a cow’s bicolor pattern and a more serpentine tail (no fluke).
Swordfiskur – an orca-like porpoise whose dorsal fin is hard and sharp, allowing it to gore its prey (larger sea monsters, particularly baleen whales) from below
Hrosshvalur – a red-maned porpoise with a horse-like head and enormous eyes.
Mushveli – a dolphin with a ratlike face and a whiplike tail
Deer
White Hart – a magical stag
Sianach – a huge, aggressive, ugly deer native to Francbreton and Celpict
Achlis – an elk with an enormous upper lip and poorly articulated legs
Bovines
Busse – a cow with stag-like horns that can camouflage like a chameleon
Urus – a cow whose massive horns are serrated to saw down trees
Tarbhuisge – a massive, aquatic, ocean dwelling bull
Geryon Cattle – red & purple cows that were discovered by the Mediterran ogre Geryon
Ettincattle – two headed cows with four horns on each head, bred and tamed by ettins
Bonnacon – cows attuned to fire magic
Midgaheim Bonnacon – shits fires
Mediteran Bonnacon – breathes fire
Caprinae (Sheeps & Goats
Khrysomallos – flying, golden fleeced ram
Mustelids
Byreweosule – a magically attuned weasel bred to slay basilisks
Dorraghow – a monstrous otter from Celpict
Felines
Greymalkins – magical housecats that can appear to be in two places at once (displacer beast expies)
Cathanegs – i.e. magically attuned members of panthera
Irusan – a particularly massive cathaneg from Celpict
Murcat – a tusked cathaneg native to Celpict
Armored Lions – various thick skinned lions of Mediterra
Nemean Lion
Cithaeronian Lion
Gulon – essentially a magical bobcat, native to Germanor
Crocottas: massive hyenas
Canines
Calopus – a horned wolf with long, porcupine-like quills on its back
Barghests (Fenrisbrood, Hrodvitnirs) – magically attuned wolves
Orthrus – a massive two headed hound
Freybugs – magically attuned feral hounds
Aufhocker – another, larger breed of magically attuned feral hound
Seals
Katthveli – a massive whale-sized seal with a voracious appetite for flesh.  Its flippers have hooks, its face has whiskers, and males have tusks in addition to sharp teeth.
Roshwalr – giant, vicious walruses native to the northern coasts of Germanor
Rodents
Rat Kings
Rabbits
Banaharas – human-sized killer rabbits, are intelligent enough to use tools/weapons (killer rabbit of caerbanog expy)
Apes
Nependis – an ape monster with a boar-like face
Hominds
Acephali (also called Blemyahs)– humanoids whose heads are directly connected to their chests (no neck)
Blue Men of Minch – hostile subterranean people native to Celpict
Circhos – an aquatic humanoid with three toed feet whose legs are different lengths.
Woodwoses – i.e. wildmen, basically a race of sasquatches
Paragons - magically attuned humans that subconsciously use magic
Sorcerors – magically attuned humans that can consciously use magic, i.e. natural spellcasters
Hags – humans that made pacts with demons for magic powers
Ogres
Crude Ogres
Hill Ogres
Mountain Ogres
Cloud Ogres
Ettin – three headed ogres
Jotun
Beautiful Ogres
Aesir – Germanorean variant
Titans – Mediterran variant
Monstrous Ogres
Centimanes (Hekatonkheires)
Greater Cyclopes
Argus
Lesser Cyclopes
Fair Folk/Forest Folk/Fairies/Nature Spirits Trolls
Swamp Trolls
River Trolls
Pond Trolls
Forest Trolls
House Trolls
Cave Trolls
Mountain Trolls
Sea Trolls
Bergfolk – small, bearded, particularly frog-ish trolls, and also some of the most intelligent.
Grendelkin
Goblinoids
Goblins
Coblyn – mining goblins with copper skin
Garthornes – another breed of subterranean mining goblin
Fachan – a goblin with one arm growing out of its chest, one leg growing out of the center of its hip, one eye, and a tuft of hair on its head. They wear cloaks of raven feathers.
Ironboots – powerful goblins who are immune to the fairy-killing powers of iron.
Samhanach – a strong breed of goblin closely tied to Samhain/Halloween
Powries – a very vicious breed of goblin, tend to be redcaps
Hobgoblins
Bauchans – a human friendly subspecies of hobgoblin
Frids – hobgoblins that dwell inside rocks and caverns.
Gwyll – a hobgoblin species that loves riding horses
Gremlins
Boggarts
Hobyah – a particularly vicious breed of child eating boggarts
Grindylows
Redcaps – not a species of goblin, but a goblin cult
Other Humanoid Fairies
Reptile Humanoid Fairies
Addercrops – snake people (i.e. snakes with humanoid arms and legs – not serpentaurs)
Bug Humanoid Fairies
Sylphs – butterfly people, air elementals
Pixies – Bee fairies
Snow bees
Pillywiggins – bumblebee fairies that are also bumblebee size
Piskies – Ant fairies
Sprites – Beetle faries
Spriggins – grasshopper men who can turn from tiny to massive
Willowisps – firefly fairies
Gardsvors – beautiful roach fairies from Germanor
Manawyddan – shoe cobbling spider fairies
Ettercaps – spider fairies
Bilwis – Germanorean mantis fairies with sickle-shaped toes
Fish Humanoid Fairies
Undines – fish people, sea elementals (Deep One/Kua Toth/Gill Men expies)
Ceasg – Celpictish fairy mermaids who can grant three wishes, but also eat people.
Gwragedd Annwnn – beautiful fish women fairies with golden hair.  They protect lakes.
Berenfini – benevolent water spirits from Ruslovak
Mammal Humanoid Fairies
Kobolds – small dog people, live in mines
Buccas – a seafaring variety of kobold
Low Elves/Brownies – rodent people
Gnomes/dwarves – mole people, earth elementals
Coranians – a particularly strong and well informed group of gnomes
Courils – small gnomes with webbed feet
Riesengebirge – Germanorean gnomes who are wicked
Rubezahl – a Germanorean breed of gnome that dwells in mountains and misleads travelers.  They can also cause storms.
Leprechauns
Dobbies – a lazy, gullible, and stupid breed of brownie
Grogen – golden haired, forest dwelling brownies
Derricks – a breed of brownie that are inclined to tricks and leading travelers astray
Fantine – a group of brownies from Germanor that look after cattle
Pechs – red haired brownies from Celpict with HUGE feet
Prigirstitis – a Ruslovakian brownie with enormous and sensitive ears
Fenodyree – an extremely strong breed of brownie that is hairier than usual and likes to work on farms
Fir Bholgs – a massive breed of brownies that fought the high elves for dominance and lost.
Fuath – a group of hairy rat men fairies that are particularly anti-human
Arkan Sonneys – hedgehog fairies (and a bit of pig as well) with long hairs
Leucrotans – hyena people fairies (Gnoll expies)
Baoban Sith – fairy women with deer’s hooves in place of feet who often transform into crows.  They drink human blood.
Huldra – beautiful, tall, always female fairies whose backs appear to be hollow and who have long, ox-like tails
Urisks – goat-people fairies in Celpict, inexplicably live in the water
Gwillions – goat-hag fairies that live in mountains and eat people.
Selkies – seal fairies that can shed their skin to become humans
Roane – selkies that appear as seal-human mermaids
Bird Humanoid Fairies
Swan Maidens – fairies that must alternate between swan and human forms once every other year
Cyhraeths - harpy-like fairies
Plant Humanoid Fairies
Mandrakes – flower people
Moss Maidens – exactly what they sound like, native to Germanor
Fideal – grass/water weed women, eat people
Greenmen – planet people fairies
Herlewins – green-glowing tree-men with antler-like branches growing out of their skulls.  They are renowned for their hunting. (The Beast expies)
Hamadryads – human above the waist, tree below, native to Mediterra
Radande – Midgaheim hamadryads
Baumesels – Germanorean tree fairies, basically gnarly ents
Nulesmurt – Ruslovakian tree men
Boruta – Female tree fairies from Ruslovak (Poland specifically).  They inhabit fir trees.
Actual Human Fairies
High Elves/Alfar - faeries that are actually descended from humans
Liosalfar – light elves
Dockalfar – dark elves
Schrats – forest elves
Ouphe – dimwitted elves often used as changelings
Wee People – a diminutive variation of High Elves
Ellyllon – small versions of high elves native to Bretony
Feroers – another diminutive subspecies of high elf from Bretony. They are clean freaks.
Mannikins – yet another dimunitive subspecies of high elf
Wood Wives – female only fairy humans
Dryads – Mediterran forest elves
Nymphs – Mediterran freshwater elves
Nereids – Mediteran sea elves
Beive – beautiful, blue eyed, blond, large breasted fairies from Ruslovak (Lithuania).  They protect women from abusive husbands.
Veela – another beautiful group of all female Ruslovakian elves
Keshalyi – Ruslovak fairies (Romanian specifically), benevolent
Rusalkis – a Ruslovakian breed of green haired fairy woman who live in water and eat men, though they sometimes fall in love with their prey.
Matiya – Ruslovakian fairies that have no male counterparts and must breed with human males to survive.  Sadly, they also kill their lovers in the process of mating.
Wood Men – male only fairy humans
Fossegrim – Germanorean elves that are always male and pretty.
Cutty Dyer – fairy men with large, luminous eyes who drink the blood of travelers
Gancanagh – fairy men with jet black eyes who cast no shadows.  They woo mortal women and then leave them forever to pine away as spinsters.
Dodore – one armed, one eyed, one legged human fairies with long red hair and talons.
Fad Felen – a repulsive human fairy with gold eyes, teeth, and hair.
Green Children – a specific, shitty variety of changeling with green skin.
Leshies – green haired, strangely pallid fairies of Ruslovak.
Ban Nidhechain – a little old woman spirit with red webbed feet, protruding teeth, and only one nostril.  They spend their time washing clothes, and anyone they see will die shortly after. If they are captured before they see the person who grabs them, they must grant their captor three wishes.
Bestial Fairies
Aitvaras – a fairy dragon that disguises itself as a cat or rooster.  It will try to make its owner rich via theft, and demands omelets for meals.  They have four limbs but are bipedal, having a vaguely retrosaur-ish stance.  (D&D Kobold expies)
Kelpies
Backahast – imitates a log to ensnare prey
Common Celpict Kelpie – the traditional kelpie
Ceffyldwr – a more proactive breed of kelpie
Eachuisge – a kelpie that inhabits lakes (most kelpies prefer running water like rivers) that is particularly intelligent and cruel, sometimes leaving parts of its human victims for other humans to find.
Shoopiltie – a small breed of kelpie that resembles a pony more than a horse
Tangies – a breed of kelpie with seaweed-like hair
Endrop – a breed of kelpie found in south-eastern Germanor and Ruslovak
Haikur – another kelpie species from Germanor
Neugle – a kelpie whose victims are consumed by magical blue fire when drowned
Cabyll-Ushtey – a kelpie that turns into a human instead of a horse.
Glashtin – another kelpie that turns into a human, albeit with horse ears.
Cheval bayard – a more mischevious/less man-eating variety of kelpie, can turn into both a horse and a human.
Giwoitis – a Ruslovak house spirit and fairy lizard.
Alp Luachra – a fairy newt that turns invisible upon being swallowed, and then parasitically devours all the food its host swallows.
Phookas – giant rabbit/cat hybrid fairies
Brags – evil phookas from Francobreton
Elwetritsch – a scaly, antlered chicken that was made by bizarre fairy sex rituals
Cait Sith – fairy cats
Cud Sith – fairy dogs.  The standard variant has green fur and is as large as a bull.
Biasd Bheulach – a vicious fairy greyhound
Buggane – a large, shaggy dog fairy with luminous eyes
Cughtagh – a mountain dwelling breed of Buggane
Gillitrut – a white, shaggy dog fairy that chases after lost travelers
Cwn Annwn – white hounds with red ears that can turn invisible.
Padfoot – a white, shaggy fairy dog
Crodh Sidhe – aquatic fairy cows
Buckie – a goat fairy that tries to garrote horse riders
Undead-like Fairies
Dullahans
Banshees – appears as a gaunt woman with glowing red eyes in hollow sockets. They wear green or white dresses and gray cloaks, and their hair can be either white or red.  May sometimes appear beautiful, but are generally haggard and old.
Bazaloshtsh – a Germanorean subspecies of Banshee.  Basically the same as a banshee, but smaller.
Caoineag – a banshee species whose individual members each guard a specific family, warning them of danger.
Idises – a Germanorean subspecies of Banshee that appears on the battlefield. They are dressed in black.
Cauld Lad – a ghostly child who visits the deathly ill.  They will touch the part of the ill person’s body that will be affected by the disease.
Dogai – a beautiful young fairy woman whose limbs bend backwards and head swivels unnaturally on its neck that brings disease.  They have long earlobes and thin legs.
Galley-beggar – a skeletal fairy that carries a severed human head, loves to slide down hills and isn’t necessarily wicked
Monstrous Fairies
Bugbears
Oschaert – a breed of bugbear that can turn into a horse, dog, or rabbit, but always has blazing eyes.
Wirrycows
Bardha – mostly benevolent nature spirits that appear as formless white beings.
Brollachan – a small Celpictish spirit that appears as a formless void with eyes and a mouth.
Bugul Noz - a hideous but kindly fairy
Cearb – i.e. the Killing Ones, evil spirits that cause disease in people and cattle.
Nuckleavees
Fomorian Giants
Demogorgon – a monstrous fairy who takes its name from two equally monstrous beings
Locolico – a group of monstrous fairies in Ruslovak (Romany folklore), cruel tormentors of the keshalyi
The Locolico King
Melalo – a filthy gray and green bird with two heads and large vicious talons, first son of the king and Ana, causes mental illness and eats human hearts
Lilyi – a hagfish with an eerily woman-like face and nine long filaments on either side of her body, which inflict colds and flus opon mortals.  Sister and wife of Melalo.
Tculo – a small ball covered in spines that causes stomach pain.
Tcaridyi – a worm covered in long, fragile hairs that cause fever
Silali – a white mouse with extra legs that causes fever and rigor (the sensation of being cold when you’re actually too warm)
Bitoso – a hideous worm with multiple heads and causing nausea
Lolmischo – a red mouse that causes skin diseases, rashes, blisters, and other blemishes
Minceskre – a tiny beetle with a hairy back and a vaginal mouth that causes STDs and diseases of the blood.
Poreskoro – a strange beast with a bird and human-like torso, four canine heads, four feline heads, and a snake for a tail.  It creates plagues.
Nakk – a sea spirit that lures travelers into the sea and, moreso, into its enormous mouth
Nekans – Germanorean sea spirits that take the form of golden haired, green eyed men who demand human sacrifices.
Deofolskin – A many-eyed, scaly skinned floating head (Beholder expies)
Horerczy – A fairy that breathes out a cloud of blood sucking parasitic butterflies
Shellycoat – A vaguely dog-like beast with thick, matted, wet fur that is filled with clattering sea shells
Chimeras Bestial Chimeras
Griffins
Hippogriffs
Heliodromos (Vulture griffin)
Keythong (wingless griffin, kinda pointless)
Enfields - a fox/falcon hybrid, an attempt to build a more mangeable griffin
Beraules - owl/bear hybrids, an attempt to build a meaner griffin (owlbear expy)
Draconic Chimeras
Lou Carcolh – Dragon & Snaesagol Hybrid, enormous, resembles a snail-shelled dragon with tentacles over its mouth, drips with slime, has tinier dragon heads for eyestalks
Tarasque – a complicated chimera: hybrid of dragon, basilisk, turtle, and lion
Zburator – Dragon & Fenrisbrood hybrid
Alphyn – Dragon & Cathaneg hybrid
Naui – a dragon with the head and wings of an eagle; first created in Ruslovak
Draikainas – Dragon, Titan, & Serpentaur hybrid
The Hybrid Children of Echidna
Lernaen Hydra – most of genetic code comes from a Mediterran Lesser Drake species
Ladon – most of genetic code comes from a Mediterran Wyrm species
Chimaera – dragon, basilisk, lion, goat mix
Cerberus – half dragon, half hound; hydra syndrome results in three canine heads and multiple serpent heads
Cetus – half dragon, half kraken
Crommyonian Sow – half boar, half dragon
Gwibers - basilisk/phoenix hybrids, very colorful and beautiful
Cockatrices
Strutting Cockatrices (two legged)
Scuttling Cockatrices (six legged)
Skoffin (Draconic Cockatrices)
Codrile – a particularly unstable and massive cockatrice made of rooster, basilisk, crocodile, and dragon parts that goes through several metamorphoses.  They have a gem-like plate on their forehead.
Amphisien – cockatrice with a head on the end of its tail, made by mixing an amphisbaena with a basilisk and a roosters
Kujgoroz – owl/snake hybrids designed to carry out orders.  They will get irrational if they don’t get new orders fast enough.  An attempt to build a better cockatrice.
Questing Beasts – hybrid of snake, leopard, and stag
Hippocampi
Mediteran Hippocampi
Biast Na Srognig – the horned hippocampus, has one unicorn-like horn
Havehest – a hippocampus whose body is entirely fish and whose head is mostly horse
Perytons – flying stags
Leucrottas – hybrid of crocotta, cathaneg, and unicorn, with monstrously large jaws that none of its component parts have.  Has the legs and tail of a unicorn, neck of a lion, and the rest is a monstrous caricature of a crocotta.
Pegasi – flying horses.
Serras – a monster with the body of a fish, the head of a lion, and the wings of a bat.
Parandus – a hybrid of bear & ibex
Wolpertinger – a rabbit with fangs, antlers, and wings
Ant-lions – one of the most notorious failed chimeras in history, doomed to die because its digestive system cannot handle the food it hungers for.
Allocamelus – a camel with a donkey’s head.
Cameleopard – A hybrid of camel and leopard, has horns for some reason.
Calygreyhound – a mix of eagle, bull, and antelope.  Front legs and skull of an eagle, body and horns of an antelope, and hind legs of a bull.
Celphie – a cow with five legs, which are cow legs at the start and human arms at the end.  It’s made purely as an oddity.
Centycore – a lion bodied, horse limbed, bear headed hybrid with an enormous mouth and ears that speaks in a human voice.
Dard – a creature with the body of a lizard, the neck of a horse, and the head of a cat
Falconfish – exactly what it sounds like
Human Hybrids
Mermaids
Merrows
Moruaches
Nix – Germanorean freshwater mermaids
Suires
Benvarreys – golden haired mermaids who generally kill fishermen, though some are helpful
Marimorgens – exceedingly civilized mermaids, have palaces
Scylla
Charybdis
Arepyiai
Sirens
Harpies
Erinyes
Centaurs
Hippocentuar – part man, part horse, part fish
Ipopodes – a centaur that functions like a satyr – i.e. only has a horse’s hindlegs, not the forelegs.
Onocentaur – part man, part donkey
Minotaurs
Bucentaurs – like centaurs, but with bulls in place of horses.
Spartoi – children of the dragon’s teeth, these unique chimeras are almost entirely human and are produced by a spell involving the teeth of a slain dragon
Serpentaurs
Melusines – humannoids that are human (with some snake features) above the waist, and snake below
Draconcopedes – like normal serpentaurs, except they lack arms
Gorgons
Arachnes
Cacus – three human heads, breaths fire
Myrmidons
Bicorns
Mediteran Sphinxes
Manticores
Fauns
Satyrs
Nains – Francobreton satyrs with clawed hands and carnivorous appetites
Gaborchends – goat headed men
Cynocephali – dog headed men
Donestres – lion-headed men
Undead Ghosts
Poltergeists – haunt specific corporeal ghosts
Specters – haunt-specific corporeal ghosts
Wraiths – free roaming incorporeal ghosts
Phantoms – free roaming corporeal ghosts
Artificial Ghosts – i.e. ghosts conjured by sorcerers rather than by their own will
Skelemen – moving skeletons
Mordobearns – phantom murderers with the minds/souls of tortured children (Jason Voorhees expy)
Living Elements – souls bound to an elemental spell, manifesting as living forces of the four elements: fire, water, wind, or earth.  (Modern elemental expies)
Reanimated Dead
Vampires
Moroi
Strigoi
Ghouls/Draugr
Revenants
Vrykolakas
Stryzga
Bezkost – a truly repulsive vampire, manifesting as a boneless sack of skin that drains blood like a mosquito
Varcolacs
Theriathropes
Werewolves
Conscious
Wulver – a mostly humanoid werewolf that helps the poor
Faoladh – a werewolf that protects children
Unconscious
Chapalu
Berserkers
Artificially Created Life
Hommunculi
Mudmen – traditional homunculi
Strawmen – i.e. living scarecrows
Claymen – i.e. stone-punk robots
Fleshmen – i.e. frankensteins
Automatons
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tyrantisterror · 8 years ago
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What groups have changed since their first bit of concept art?
All of the concept art on my tumblr - well, all of the most recent art, I suppose, since some of the newer stuff contradicts some of the older stuff - is pretty up to date in terms of the general idea, even if it’s not as pretty as it could be if I had drawn it right now.
But here - I’ll give you a big old list of all the monsters planned so far that I haven’t drawn after the cut.  It’s not complete, mind you - just the ones I know I’m gonna cover as of now.
Midgaheim Monsterology
SerpentsDragons
Terms that apply to all dragon clades:
Dragonets: young (i.e. everything from baby to adolescent) dragons
Knuckers: freshwater aquatic dragons
Guivres: saltwater aquatic dragons
Hydras: dragons with multiple heads (sufferers of hydra syndrome, a common magical genetic disorder)
Zmeys – three headed variant of Hydra syndrome, lacks enhanced healing
Lesser Drakes
Peludas
Tarasque Peludas
Greater Drakes
Flightless Greater Drakes – greater drakes whose wings are used for other purposes than flight, a missing link between lesser and greater drakes
Puk – a two foot long domesticated dragon from Germanor
Piasa – the only greater drake ever known to be found outside of Midgaheim and Meditera .  Was driven to extinction by competition with Thunderbirds.
Lindorms
Colchian Lindorm
Wyrms
Vouivre: eyeless wyrms
Wyverns
Sting-tailed wyverns
Zilants (False Wyverns)
Amphipteres
Tatzelwyrms
Bergstutzen – mountain dwelling, stout species
Springewurm – leaping species
Stollwurm – burrowing species
Loongs (will be mentioned in the Midgaheim files and eventually expanded upon once I feel confident enough to tackle the many Asian mythologies in full)
Hoogahs
Ground Hoogahs
Kite Hoogahs
Basilisks
Creeping Basilisks (4 legs)
Gallopping Basilisks (6 legs)
Crawling Basilisks (2 legs)
Slithering Basiliks (legless)
Other Serpents
Amphisbaena – two headed serpents that can have anywhere between 0 and 6 legs.  Amphisbaena have two torsos connected by one hip.
Gliding Serpents
Jaculus – a small, bipedal serpent that leaps out of trees.  Its neck frill can resemble wings and allows it to glide for short distances.
Ichneumon (hydrus) – a serpent that preys upon larger serpents, burying itself in mud to attack its foe from beneath.  Similar in appearance to the Jaculus.
Sciatale – a bipedal serpent with brilliantly colored, shining scales that can hypnotize prey.  It is extremely warm.
Aspis – highly venomous winged serpent
Horned Serpents
Cerastes – Horned Serpents form Midgaheim and Mediterra, have ram-like horns
Actual Snakes
Zaltys – a domesticated magical serpent that protects the home of those who keep it; innate healing magic
Cyoneides – massive snakes with hair-like bristles on their backs that eat elephants.  Inhabit marshlands, rivers, and mountains.  Can be mugwort green or blue.  They are constrictors.
Elop – a large viper with incredibly potent venom
Dipsa – an incredibly small snake whose venom is so potent it can kill a human before they even feel the bite
Boyg –  a serpent that oozes acidic slime, native to Germanor
Sjoorm – a snake that lives its juvenile life on land, but moves to the sea for its adulthood.  It is massive.
Aiatar – a gigantic snake that raises its young native to Germanor
Other Reptiles & AmphibiansReptiles
Lizards (Agamidae)
Grylio – a poisonous lizard that poisons fruit to ensnare prey
Turtles (Testudines)
Aspidochelone – also called “asp turtles.”  Predatory turtles with serpentine necks and faces, aspidochelones pretend to be islands, lying dormant for days or even weeks with just their shells exposed.  When amphibious creatures land on their backs, the aspidochelone dives down, drowning its prey so it can eat at its leisure.  Aspidochelones are one of three unrelated sea monsters to use this “false island” hunting method.
Fastitocalon – also called “shield turtles.”  A gentler breed of island turtle, fastitocalons are larger than aspidochelones and feed more on krill and schools of fish.
Pseudosuchians
Waterhorses
Common Waterhorse – native to Celpict
Columba’s Waterhorse – a Celpictish water horse
Morar Waterhorse – a Celpictish water horse
Muckross Waterhorse – a Celpictish water horse
Muc-sheilche – aka the Maree Waterhorse, native to Celpict
Seileag – a Celpictish Waterhorse
Eachy – A Waterhorse native to both Celpict and Francobreton
Lagarfljot – a Germanorean Waterhorse, many humps
Gytrash – a Waterhorse that is more adapted for land than sea, having webbed feet but able to walk fairly well.  They have large, luminous saucer-shaped eyes.
Crocodiles (Crocodyliformes)
Orobon – a short snouted crocodilian, head is vaguely similar to a catfish
Kelpies
Backahast – imitates a log to ensnare prey
Common Celpict Kelpie – the traditional kelpie
Ceffyldwr – a more proactive breed of kelpie
Eachuisge – a kelpie that inhabits lakes (most kelpies prefer running water like rivers) that is particularly intelligent and cruel, sometimes leaving parts of its human victims for other humans to find.
Shoopiltie – a small breed of kelpie that resembles a pony more than a horse
Tangies – a breed of kelpie with seaweed-like hair
Endrop – a breed of kelpie found in south-eastern Germanor and Ruslovak
Haikur – another kelpie species from Germanor
Neugle – a kelpie whose victims are consumed by magical blue fire when drowned
Amphibians
Llamhigyn y Dwr – a large, flying, tail bearing toad from Celpict
Salamandrals – aka Deas, Stellios.  A large newt that can eat and live inside flames.
FishSharks (Selachimorpha)
Murrisk – large shark that releases toxic venom into water to poison prey
Placoderms
Beishtkione – a black headed fish found on the coast of Celpict
Acipenser – a fish whose armored scales are so spikey that they appear to open forward instead of backwards
Ray Finned Fish
Sturgeons
Pontarf – large freshwater fish that can eat children
Large Eels
Freshwater eels (Anguillidae)
Piast – another massive Celpict eel monster
Moray eels (Muraenida)
Skrimsl –massive eels living on the North-Western coast of Germanor
Ciriencroin – a massive, armored eel native to Celpict that preys upon lesser leviathans
Swamfisks (part of Lophiiformes, i.e. anglerfishes) – fish that attract prey by appearing to be decaying
Leviathans (descended from reedfish)
True Leviathans
Isaiah’s Leviathan – The largest breed of leviathan and second most aggressive; can be found much closer to shore than other greater leviathans, making it the most deadly species as far as humans are concerned
Jasconius – The second largest breed of leviathan, often swims in circles, and has sometimes been domesticated due to its unusually docile temperament
Job’s Leviathan – the third largest and most aggressive breed of leviathan
Jonah’s Leviathan – The fourth largest breed of leviathan; not particularly aggressive, but not as docile as Jasconius
Murexes – a purple leviathan that can eat boats, smallest of all the breeds of greater leviathan seen in Midgaheim
Foreign True Leviathans (mention them briefly)
Lotan
Tanin
Rahab
Shell-back Leviathans
Lyngbakr – largest of the lesser leviathans.  Is squat and heavily armored, with dorsal plates that vaguely resemble rocks.  Lays still until others land on its back, then devours them.
Skeljungur – second largest of the lesser leviathans.  Squat, fat, and even more heavily armored than the lyngbakr, with thick scales that rattle when it surfaces.  Has short flippers and no dorsal fins.
Sea Boars
Taumafiskur – A black leviathan with white or pink stripes extending from its eyes to its mouth, and from its mouth outwards.  The stripes give it the appearance of a bridle.  They are particularly unfriendly to humans.
Trolual – A type of leviathan native to Germanor.
Orkus – A type of leviathan
Scolopendra – a whiskered leviathan (small for its clade) with multiple leg-like fins that vomits when caught
Ziphius – a leviathan whose four fins look almost like legs.  It has large eyes, a beaked mouth, and fur-like quills on its neck.
Lobe Finned Fish
Lungfish (Dipnoi)
Yannig – a nocturnal sea monster that screeches like an owl to flush out prey.  It travels between the surface of the ocean and the deep sea.
Human-imitating Fish (Tetrapodomorpha)
Hakenmanns – a massive fish with a human-like face; they are carnivores that feed on humans.
Undines – mermaids if mermaids were fish who just looked humanoid rather than an actual chimeric hybrid
Bishop Fish/Sea Monks – fish with human-like faces and strange, conical frills on their heads that resembles pope hats
Cephalopods
Krakens
Unarmored Krakens
Graceful Krakens
Linaean Kraken – Another kraken with a low reproductive rate
Konung Kraken – large krakens with the lowest reproductive rate of the family, lures fish to its jaws by belching a sweet scent
Tennyson Kraken – a deep sea kraken that only rises to the surface to die
Montfort Kraken – an enormous kraken that preys almost exclusively on fishing ships
Celpict Krakens
Muirselche Kraken – A kraken with an enormous appetite and gut, most commonly found on the coast of Celpict.
Sughmaire Kraken – The only freshwater kraken, related to the Muirselche.
Amored Krakens
Pliny Kraken – a whale hunting breed of kraken
Island Krakens
Hafgufa Kraken – enormous kraken that can swallow men, ships, and even some whales.
Pontoppidan Kraken – a kraken that hunts like the aspidochelone, lying dormant on the surface to resemble an island before ensnaring prey that land on its back.  It also moves so fast that it creates deadly whirlpools
Wallenberg Kraken – A heavily armored but comparatively small species of kraken whose excrement attracts schools of fish, which the kraken ultimately feeds on
Swamp Krakens
Buratche-ah-Ilgs – a shapeless blob creature covered in eyes which occasionally shoot fire, native to northern Germanor
BirdsFowl (Galliformes)
Phoenixes (descended from peacocks)
Mediterran Phoenix
Francobreton Fenix
Ruslovak Fenix
Foreign Phoenixes (mention briefly)
Milcham
Egyptian Phoenix - Benmu
Asian Phoenixes – Feng Wangs and Ho-Os
Stymphalian Birds – carnivorous swans/geeze with toxic shit and barbs that shoot out of their wings
Gulls (Laridae)
Boobrie – a huge seagull that eats sheep
Raptors
Rukhs (i.e. giant eagles)
Kaukasios Rukh: A massive eagle native to Mediterra
Midgaheim Rukh: Hraesvelg’s species
Cornu: a black rukh native to Celpict
Kreutzet: a ruhk from Ruslovak
Bariuchne: a Midgaheim ruhk that is closely related to the Ziz
Foreign Rukhs (mention briefly)
Sinbad’s Rukh
Ziz
Thunderbirds
Adarllwchgwins – massive, domesticated hawks made for riding
Habergeiss – a nocturnal owl with horns that shrieks when a person is about to die.  Native to Germanor.
Perching Birds (Passeriformes)
Messenger Ravens – Incredibly intelligent corvids that are as big as wolves
Hyrcinian birds – a type of nocturnal songbird with bioluminescent feathers; native to Germanor
MammalsUngulates
Behemoths (sub-clade to Perissodactyla)
True Behemoths
Job’s Behemoth (mention only)
Midgaheim Behemoth
Catoblepas: a behemoth native to Midgaheim noted for its weak neck muscles and impenetrable skin.
Beithir: a behemoth native to Francobreton that is covered in thick fur instead of thick skin
Odontotyrannus – a large, black behemoth with three cranial horns growing from its forehead.  It is carnivorous and eats elephants.
Unicorns
Monoceros Unicorn:  a missing link between unicorns and behemoths, the armored unicorn is a small behemoth with a prominent cranial horn used for goring its enemies.
True Unicorn: a creature that superficially resembles a horse, with long goat-like legs, a long, flowing lion-like tail, and a more deer-like face.  Its main feature is its horn, which is made of a magical substance called alicorn.
Scythian unicorn: a gray, unimpressive unicorn native to Mediterra
Cartazonon: a yellow-red unicorn with a black horn and a long mane, incredibly aggressive.
Yale: a two horned creature related to the unicorn, whose two cranial horns are articulated by muscles.  Has the dainty body of a Pure unicorn, but traces of the elephant-like armor of behemoths, and a boar-like mouth
Horses and donkeys
Sleipnirs – massive eight legged horses.
Diomedean Horses – carnivorous horses
Aneskelades – a giant donkey that can shrink to the size of a regular donkey
Swine
Cthonic Boars
Whales
Stokkull – a blind sperm whale whose face is covered in strange, fleshy flaps of skin
Raudkembingur – a sperm whale with a red “comb” of dorsal fins along its neck.
Nauthveli – a sperm whale with a cow’s bicolor pattern and a more serpentine tail (no fluke).
Swordfiskur – an orca-like porpoise whose dorsal fin is hard and sharp, allowing it to gore its prey (larger sea monsters, particularly baleen whales) from below
Hrosshvalur – a red-maned porpoise with a horse-like head and enormous eyes.
Mushveli – a dolphin with a ratlike face and a whiplike tail
Deer
White Hart – a magical stag
Sianach – a huge, aggressive, ugly deer native to Francbreton and Celpict
Achlis – an elk with an enormous upper lip and poorly articulated legs
Bovines
Busse – a cow with stag-like horns that can camouflage like a chameleon
Urus – a cow whose massive horns are serrated to saw down trees
Tarbhuisge – a massive, aquatic, ocean dwelling bull
Geryon Cattle – red & purple cows that were discovered by the Mediterran ogre Geryon
Bonnacon – cows attuned to fire magic
Midgaheim Bonnacon – shits fires
Mediteran Bonnacon – breathes fire
Caprinae (Sheeps & Goats
Khrysomallos – flying, golden fleeced ram
Dorraghow – a monstrous otter from Celpict
Felines
Cathanegs – i.e. magically attuned members of panthera
Irusan – a particularly massive cathaneg from Celpict
Murcat – a tusked cathaneg native to Celpict
Armored Lions – various thick skinned lions of Mediterra
Nemean Lion
Cithaeronian Lion
Gulon – essentially a magical bobcat, native to Germanor
Crocottas: massive hyenas
Canines
Calopus – a horned wolf with long, porcupine-like quills on its back
Barghests (Fenrisbrood, Hrodvitnirs) – magically attuned wolves
Orthrus – a massive two headed hound
Freybugs – magically attuned feral hounds
Aufhocker – another, larger breed of magically attuned feral hound
Seals
Katthveli – a massive whale-sized seal with a voracious appetite for flesh.  Its flippers have hooks, its face has whiskers, and males have tusks in addition to sharp teeth.
Roshwalr – giant, vicious walruses native to the northern coasts of Germanor
Rodents
Afanc – a giant carnivorous beaver native to Celpict and Francobreton
Apes
Nependis – an ape monster with a boar-like face
Hominds
Acephali (also called Blemyahs)– humanoids whose heads are directly connected to their chests (no neck)
Blue Men of Minch – hostile subterranean people native to Celpict
Circhos – an aquatic humanoid with three toed feet whose legs are different lengths.
Ogres
Hill Ogres
Mountain Ogres
Cloud Ogres
Jotun
Aesir
Titans
Centimanes (Hekatonkheires)
Greater Cyclopes
Argus
Lesser Cyclopes
Fair Folk/Forest Folk/Fairies/Nature SpiritsTrolls
Swamp Trolls
River Trolls
Pond Trolls
Forest Trolls
House Trolls
Cave Trolls
Mountain Trolls
Sea Trolls
Goblins
Hobgoblins
Goblins
Boggarts
Grindylows
Redcaps – not a subtype of goblin, but a philosophy
Other Humanoid Fairies
Attercroppes – snake people (i.e. snakes with humanoid arms and legs – not serpentaurs)
Sprites – bug people
Kobolds – small dog people
Low Elves/Brownies – rodent people
Leprechauns
Gnomes/dwarves
High Elves/Alfar - faeries that are actually descended from humans
Liosalfar – light elves
Dockalfar – dark elves
Schrats – forest elves
Huldra – beautiful, tall, always female fairies whose backs appear to be hollow and who have long, ox-like tails
Sylphs
Dryads
Nymphs
Nereids – fish people
Mandrakes – humanoid plants
Hamadryads – human above the waist, tree below
Bestial Fairies
Bugbears (fairies of indistinct clade)
Phookas
Cait Sith – fairy cats
Cud Sith – fairy dogs
Crodh Sidhe – aquatic fairy cows
Undead-like Fairies
Dullahans
Banshees
Monstrous Fairies
Nuckleavees
Formian Giants
ChimerasBestial Chimeras
Draconic Chimeras
Lou Carcolh – Dragon & Snail Hybrid, enormous, resembles a snail-shelled dragon with tentacles over its mouth, drips with slime
Tarasque – a complicated chimera: hybrid of dragon, basilisk, turtle, and lion
Zburator – Dragon & Fenrisbrood hybrid
Alphyn – Dragon & Cathaneg hybrid
Naui – a dragon with the head and wings of an eagle; first created in Ruslovak
Draikainas – Dragon, Titan, & Serpentaur hybrid
The Hybrid Children of Echidna
Lernaen Hydra – most of genetic code comes from a Mediterran Lesser Drake species
Ladon – most of genetic code comes from a Mediterran Wyrm species
Chimaera – dragon, basilisk, lion, goat mix
Cerberus – half dragon, half hound; hydra syndrome results in three canine heads and multiple serpent heads
Cetus – half dragon, half kraken
Crommyonian Sow – half boar, half dragon
Cockatrices
Strutting Cockatrices (two legged)
Scuttling Cockatrices (six legged)
Skoffin (Draconic Cockatrices)
Codrile – a particularly unstable and massive cockatrice made of rooster, basilisk, crocodile, and dragon parts that goes through several metamorphoses.  They have a gem-like plate on their forehead.
Amphisien – cockatrice with a head on the end of its tail, made by mixing an amphisbaena with a basilisk and a roosters
Griffins
Hippogriffs
Heliodromos (Vulture griffin)
Keythong (wingless griffin, kinda pointless)
Hippocampi
Mediteran Hippocampi
Biast Na Srognig – the horned hippocampus, has one unicorn-like horn
Havehest – a hippocampus whose body is entirely fish and whose head is mostly horse
Enfields – fox/eagle hybrids
Perytons – flying stags
Questing Beasts – hybrid of snake, leopard, and stag
Leucrottas – hybrid of crocotta, cathaneg, and unicorn, with monstrously large jaws that none of its component parts have.  Has the legs and tail of a unicorn, neck of a lion, and the rest is a monstrous caricature of a crocotta.
Pegasi – flying horses.
Serras – a monster with the body of a fish, the head of a lion, and the wings of a bat.
Parandus – a hybrid of bear & ibex
Wolpertinger – a rabbit with fangs, antlers, and wings
Ant-lions – one of the most notorious failed chimeras in history, doomed to die because its digestive system cannot handle the food it hungers for.
Allocamelus – a camel with a donkey’s head.
Cameleopard – A hybrid of camel and leopard, has horns for some reason.
Calygreyhound – a mix of eagle, bull, and antelope.  Front legs and skull of an eagle, body and horns of an antelope, and hind legs of a bull.
Celphie – a cow with five legs, which are cow legs at the start and human arms at the end.  It’s made purely as an oddity.
Centycore – a lion bodied, horse limbed, bear headed hybrid with an enormous mouth and ears that speaks in a human voice.
Dard – a creature with the body of a lizard, the neck of a horse, and the head of a cat
Falconfish – exactly what it sounds like
Human Hybrids
Mermaids
Merrows
Selkies
Scylla
Charybdis
Arepyiai
Sirens
Harpies
Erinyes
Centaurs
Hippocentuar – part man, part horse, part fish
Ipopodes – a centaur that functions like a satyr – i.e. only has a horse’s hindlegs, not the forelegs.
Onocentaur – part man, part donkey
Minotaurs
Serpentaurs
Melusines – humannoids that are human (with some snake features) above the waist, and snake below
Draconcopedes – like normal serpentaurs, except they lack arms
Gorgons
Arachnes
Cacus – three human heads, breaths fire
Myrmidons
Bicorns
Mediteran Sphinxes
Manticores
Fauns
Satyrs
Nains – Francobreton satyrs with clawed hands and carnivorous appetites
Gaborchends – goat headed men
Cynocephali – dog headed men
Donestres – lion-headed men
UndeadGhosts
Poltergeists
Wraiths
Specters
Phantoms
Vampires
Moroi
Strigoi
Vrykolakas
Stryzga
Ghouls/Draugr
Revenants
Varcolacs
Therianthropes
Werewolves
Conscious
Unconscious
Chapalu
Berserkers
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