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[north-noire]

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[aikoiya]

LoZ: Extended Bestiary

Canon Wild Animals:

Horse (Equus caballus) = Greater Hyrule. Sheikah *Uma (馬: _). Lanayru *Cheval (Pron: _); Étalon _ (Pron: , _ Stud). Deyá *Cavallo (Pron: _). Mabé *Caballo. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

Giant Horse (Equus caballus giganteus) = Taobab Grasslands & Hateno Beach. Sheikah *Kyoba (巨馬: _). Lanayru *Cheval Géant (Pron: _). Deyá *Cavallo Gigante (Pron: _). Mabé *Caballo Gigante. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

White Horse (Equus caballus) = Safula Hill & Deep Akkala. Sheikah *Hakuba (白馬: _). Lanayru *Cheval Blanc (Pron: _). Deyá *Cavallo Bianco (Pron: _). Mabé *Caballo Blanco. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

Giant White Stallion (Equus caballus _) = Inside Ibara Butte. Sheikah *_ (_馬: _). Lanayru *Cheval _ (Pron: _). Deyá *Cavallo _ (Pron: _). Mabé *Caballo _. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

Golden Horse (Equus caballus _) = North Tabantha Snowfield. Sheikah *_ (_馬: _). Lanayru *Cheval _ (Pron: _). Deyá *Cavallo _ (Pron: _). Mabé *Caballo _. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

Stalhorse (Equus caballus _) = Depths & Sanidin Park near Satori Mountain. Sheikah *_ (_: スタルホース) or _ (_馬: _). Lanayru *Staldestrier (Pron: _). Deyá *Stal-lone (Pron: _). Mabé *Caballo Esquelético or simply *Stalcaballo. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

Donkey (Equus asinus) = Domestic. Greater Hyrule. Sheikah *Roba (_: ロバ). Lanayru *Âne (Pron: _). Deyá *Asino (Pron: _). Mabé *Burro. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

Sand Seal (Odobenus roseremus) = Gerudo Desert. Something interesting of note. Sand Seals are actually more akin to walruses &, like walruses, they can lose their tusks. The reason being that they grow continuously & they frequently outgrow their tusk caps. This results in the tusks loosening & falling out. Because of this, Erepinnipediculture suddenly becomes a major source of trade revolving around ivory production. Sheikah *Sunazarashi (_: スナザラシ). Lanayru *Morse des Sables (Pron: _). Deyá *Foca delle Sabbie (Pron: _). Mabé *Morsa del Desierto. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

Bushy-Tailed Squirrel (_ _) = Hyrule Field & Satori Mountain. Sheikah *Otaterisu (_: オタテリス). Lanayru *Écureuil Dresse-Panache (Pron: _). Deyá *Scoiattolo Codafolta (Pron: _). Mabé *Ardilla Huraña. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

Woodland Boar (Sus scrofa) = Hyrule Field & West Necluda. Sheikah *_ (_: _). Lanayru *_ (Pron: _). Deyá *_ (Pron: _). Mabé *_. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: Wild boar (Sus scrofa).

Red-Tusked Boar (Sus scrofa _) = Hyrule Ridge & Akkala Highlands. Sheikah *_ (_: _). Lanayru *_ (Pron: _). Deyá *_ (Pron: _). Mabé *_. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: “These boars are known for their red tusks and black fur. They're similar to your average boars but are considerably stronger.” - A/N: Wild boar (Sus scrofa).

Mountain Goat (Capra aegagrus ibex) = East Necluda & Great Hyrule Forest. Sheikah *Seguro Yagi (_: セグロヤギ). Lanayru *Chèvre à Dos Noir (Pron: _). Deyá *Capra Vellonero (Pron: _). Mabé *Cabra Silvestre or *Cabra Trapacumbres. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

White Goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) = Domestic. East Necluda & Hyrule Ridge. Sheikah *Shiro Yagi (_: シロヤギ). Lanayru *Chèvre Blanche (Pron: _). Deyá *Capra Bianca (Pron: _). Mabé *Cabra Doméstica. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

Mountain Buck & Mountain Doe (Cervus hyliae) = Lanayru, Eldin, & Hyrule Field. Sheikah *_ (_: _). Lanayru *_ (Pron: _). Deyá *_ (Pron: _). Mabé *_. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: Based on the Shika deer (Cervus nippon) of Japan.

Wild Water Buffalo (Bos bubalus arnee) = Lanayru Wetlands, Hyrule Ridge, & Faron Jungle. Wild water buffalo are readily distinguished from other wild cattle by their long scimitar-shaped horns. They are also larger. Lanayru *Buffe des Marais (Pron: ), Buffle d’Eau (Pron: Byfl dü), or Buffleau (Pron: Byflü). However, the wild ones are referred to as Buffleau de Rapides (Pron: Byflü dü ʁah-peed, Rapids Buffalo referring to ‘wild waters’). The Sheikah know them as Wasuigyū, Watsugyū, Atsugyū, or Asugyū (和水牛: わすいぎゅう; わつぎゅう; あつぎゅう; or あすぎゅう) for domestic water buffalo, but as *Shitsugen Suigyū (_水牛: シツゲンスイギュウ) for the wild ones. Deya *Bufalo di Palude (Pron: ). Mabé *Búfalo de Agua. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _; _ & Tatanka. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_” | TotK: "These wild cows come equipped with big, strong horns. They live off grass that grows near the waterfront. Their meat is considered to be high quality, so they're a common target among hunters. Fun Fact: The domesticated Hateno cow, often raised in villages, was bred through selective breeding using these.” - A/N: European water buffalo (Bubalus murrensis) is an extinct water buffalo native to Europe. Also called carabao or kalabaw (Philippines; lives in tropical swampland), water ox. Cebuano kábaw, Tagalog kalabáw, Kavalan qabaw, Minang kabau, Malay/Indonesian kerbau, Javanese kebo, and Indonesian Dutch karbouw. Wild ones are Bos bubalus arnee & domesticated ones are Bos bubalus bubalis. The domestic water buffalo comprises two subspecies: the river buffalo (B. bubalis bubalis) & the swamp buffalo (B. bubalis kerebau). From IRL Suigyū (水牛; すいぎゅう, Water Buffalo) & Yagyū (野牛; やぎゅう, Wild Water Buffalo). Suigyū being an umbrella term for water buffalo that can be used for both river & swamp buffalo. - Ta for buffalo & Tanka for huge.

Hateno Cattle (Bos taurus) = Domestic. Hateno Village & Lurelin Village. Hateno Bà _ (Pron: Bah _, _ Cattle); Bò _ (Pron: Bow _, _ Cow) & Tarbh _ (Pron: Tarv _, _ Bull). Sheikah *Hateno Ushi (_の牛: _のウシ, _ Cattle) with studs being _ no Taneushi (_の種牛: _タネウシ, _ Stud) & milchers as _ no Nyūngyū (_の乳牛: _のニュウンウギュウ, _ Dairy Cow). Lanayru Bétail d'Elimith (Pron: Bee-tah-ihl _, _ Cattle); *Vaches d'Elimith (Pron: Vush _, _ Cows), or Vaches Laitières d'Elimith (Pron: Vush Lee-tyehʁ _, _ Dairy Cows) for the milchers. & Taureaux d'Elimith (Pron: Toh-ʁoo _, _ Bulls) for the bulls. Mabé *Vaca de Hatelia. In Mabéñoles, they’re referred to as *Vacas de Hatelia (_ Cows), but a female is a Vacilla de Hatelia (_ Cow) & a male is a Toro de Hatelia (_ Bull). Deya Mucche _ (Pron: Moo-keh _, _ Cattle); *Mucca di Finterra & Monta _. Gerudo _bōen (Pron: _-boh-ehn); _ Mïbōdrïn & _ Bōnàken. Hebran _ Kýr (Pron: _ Kür, _ Cattle); _ Mál-nyta (Pron: _ MOL-nytah, _ Milcher) for the females & _ Stóðarfr (Pron: _ Stō-thahr-fr, _ Stud-Bull) for the females. Ordon tends to stay fairly simple by staying with Bó-_ (Pron: Boh-_, _-Cow) & Bà-_ (Pron: Baw-_, _-Cows) for the most part. Though, for unusual situations, the females are Bó-Bainne _ (Pron: Boh-Bann-neh _, _ Milkcow), or Bà-Bainne _ (Pron: Baw-Bann-neh _, _ Milkcows) when in a herd, & _ (Pron: Tarv _, _ Bull) for males. Faron _ Kau; _ Mirakau for milches & _ Pūru for bulls. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "Originating in Hateno Village, these cows are kept as livestock primarily for their milk. Their horns are smaller than a water buffalo's, and they're much more docile and therefore easier to raise. Their horns are decorated with bright colors when taken out to pasture.” - A/N:

Highland Sheep (_ _) = Domestic. East Necluda & Akkala Highlands. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N:

Highland Sheep (Ovis _) = Domestic. East Necluda & Akkala Highlands. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N:

Grassland Fox (Vulpus _) = Hyrule Field, Hyrule Ridge, & Lanayru Great Spring. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "This breed of fox is common to grasslands and forests and is hallmarked by its fluffy, white-tipped tail. Unlike other foxes, they tend to act independently rather than form packs. Being omnivores, they hunt animals smaller than themselves and often stick to eating fruit and insects.”

Snowcoat Fox (Vulpus _) = Hebra & Gerudo Highlands. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "This particular breed of grassland fox makes its home in cold climates such as the Tabantha region. Its fur turned white as a means of adapting to snowy weather, serving as a natural camouflage. Because of this, spotting one in the snow takes a keen eye.”

Maraudo Wolf (Canis lupus _) = Hebra & Eldin. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "These wolves are not only carnivorous but can also be downright fierce. They're highly aggressive and aren't afraid to attack people. They hunt in groups and surround their prey as a means of bringing it down. That said, if one of their own is injured, the rest are wise enough to run away. They communicate via howls, so if you're wandering the forest and hear their call, you had best take care.” - A/N: Binomial based on the one for the desert wolf (Canis lupus arabs).

Wasteland Coyote (Canis _) = Gerudo Desert & Gerudo Canyon. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "This contentious beast is native to the Gerudo region. It makes its home in the desert, so it doesn't have a problem with hot, arid climates. They do hunt other beasts and small animals but more often turn their sights on people. They're a threat to anyone traveling through the desert.” - Binomial based on the one for the coyote (Canis latrans). Canis latrans translates to “barking dog.”

Cold-Footed Wolf (Canis lupus _) = Hebra & Gerudo Highlands. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "This breed of maraudo wolf lives in snowy, mountainous areas, such as the Hebra Mountains. They travel in packs similar to their maraudo relatives but are considerably tougher thanks to having adapted to their harsh environment. They're made even more dangerous by their white fur, which provides a natural camouflage in the snow.” - Binomial based on the one for the snow wolf (Canis lupus arctos).

Tabantha Moose (Alces _) = Hebra & Gerudo Highlands. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N:

Dondon (_ _) = Bronas Forest. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N:

Honeyvore Bear (Urus helarctos hylianus) = Hyrule Ridge & West Necluda. These large, dark brown bears are known for their honey-colored muzzle with an orange stripe to their nose. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: Based on the black bear (Urus americanus) & the sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), who both enjoy honey. Sun bears even more the brown bears.

Grizzlemaw Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) = Hebra & Gerudo Highlands. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: Based on the black bear (Ursus americanus) & the grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), which is a subspecies of brown bear.

Hylian Retriever (Canis lupus familiaris) = Domestic. Greater Hyrule. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N:

Blupee (_ _) = Greater Hyrule, near cave entrances & in the Blupee Burrow. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N:

Bubblefrog (_ _) = Greater Hyrule, in caves. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - 

Common Sparrow (Passer _) = Hyrule Ridge & Lanayru Great Spring. This breed of sparrow has bright green feathers, a yellow throat, face, tail tips, a white belly. Sheikah *Tada Suzume (_: タダスズメ, _). Lanayru *Moineau Ordinaire (Pron: _). Deyá *Passero Comune (Pron: _). Mabé *Gorrión Común. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: Appears to resemble the Carolina Herrera sparrows.

Red Sparrow (_ _) = Hebra & Hyrule Ridge. Sheikah *Benīro Suzume (_: ベニイロスズメ, _). Lanayru *Moineau Carné (Pron: _). Deyá *Passero Rosso (Pron: _). Mabé *Gorrión Rojizo. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: Resembles a chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina) & a Sind sparrow (Passer pyrrhonotus).

Blue Sparrow (_ _) = Lanayru Great Spring & East Necluda. This black-crested, blue sparrow has a yellow nape & a _ belly. Sheikah *Aonami Suzume (_: アオナミスズメ, _). Lanayru *Moineau Bleu Vague (Pron: _). Deyá *Passero Blu (Pron: _). Mabé *Gorrión Azulado. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “This breed of sparrow is most often seen in the Lanayru region. They get most of their food from leaves and plants that grow near water. If it's safe enough, they can be spotted bathing in puddles or shallow rivers.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

Rainbow Sparrow (_ _) = Faron Grasslands & East Necluda. This multicolored, magenta-crested, dusty purple sparrow has a pink nape & tail tips, a white throat, & green belly. Sheikah *Goshiki Suzume (_: ゴシキスズメ, _). Lanayru *Moineau Pentacolore (Pron: _). Deyá *Passero Arcobaleno (Pron: _). Mabé *Gorrión Multicolor. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “As the name suggests, their feathers are more colorful than other sparrows', which has made them a favorite among dilettantes.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: 

Sand Sparrow (Passer _) = Gerudo Desert. This red-crested sparrow has an orange nape, black markings on the eyes & throat with black wings, & red-tipped, black tail feathers. Sheikah *Sunahori Suzume (_: スナホリスズメ). Lanayru *Moineau Fouisseur (Pron: _). Deyá *Passero della Sabbia (_). Mabé *Gorrión Cobrizo. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "This desert-dwelling breed of sparrow has adapted to withstand the heat in the arid climate of the Gerudo region. Sometimes they can be spotted half-buried in the sand, holding perfectly still as a means of evading predators.” - A/N: Binomial based on the one for the desert or black-throated sparrow (Passer simplex), which is more of a sandy color with no red crest. Though, both it & the in-game bird share black markings over the eyes & throat, as well as a white belly.

Golden Sparrow (Passer _) = Eldin Canyon & Great Sky Island. Greatly resembles the Sand Sparrow, but instead of having an orange nape & red crest with red-tipped tail feathers, its head & the tips of its tail feathers are all yellow. Sheikah *Kogane Suzume (_: コガネスズメ, _). Lanayru *Moineau Doré (Pron: _). Deyá *Passero Dorato (Pron: _). Mabé *Gorrión Dorada. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. | TotK: "This breed of sparrow is native to the Eldin region. Their down is resistant to burning, an evolutionary trait produced by the harsh volcanic environment. They subsist on small insects that hide inside rocks.”

Wood Pidgeon (Columba _) = Hyrule Field & Hyrule Ridge. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: The Binomial for the common dove (Columba livia).

Rainbow Pigeon (Columba _) = Hyrule Ridge & Akkala Highlands. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - Resembles a rainbow dove (Treron vernans).

Hotfeather Pigeon (Columba _) = Eldin Sky & Eldin Canyon. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "This rare breed of pigeon lives near Death Mountain. Their fireproof feathers are valuable as clothing material. They usually prefer blazing-hot environments, but lately they've been spotted flying high in the sky where the air is cooler.”

White Pigeon (Columba _) = Hebra & Gerudo Highlands. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "This white-feathered breed of pigeon lives in the Hebra region. It's said that a wood pigeon survived atop a snowy mountain by changing its feathers to blend in with the snow and soon after became a white pigeon. They have an extra layer of fat to guard against the cold, so they have been known to yield high-quality meat.”

Accented Pigeon (Columba _) = Great Sky Island & East Gerudo Sky. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "The original variety of wood pigeon, these small birds once were seen all around Hyrule but are quite rare these days. Their color often serves as camouflage.”

Mountain Crow (Corvus macrorhynchos hylianensis) = Great Hyrule Forest & Hyrule Ridge. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "This bird is known for its cleverness and for its distinct claws. They make their homes in mountains, forests, and villages alike. Not only are their jet-black feathers seen as an ill omen, but they'll steal the crops right out of a farmer's hands if given the chance. Because of this, they're often met with enmity.” - A/N: Based on the Japanese crow (Corvus macrorhynchos japonensis).

Bright-Crested Duck (_ _) = Hyrule Ridge & Lanayru Wetlands. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." -

Blue-Winged Heron (Ardea herodias) = Great Sky Island, Lanayru Wetlands, & Faron. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - Great blue heron (Ardea herodias).

Pink Heron (Ardea _) = Hyrule Field & Central Hyrule Sky. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." -

Islander Hawk (_ _) = Hyrule Ridge & Gerudo Canyon. According to the Ordonian myth, hawks are thought of as protectors & are often seen as signs of wisdom & honor that helps people follow their intuition. However, in Gerudàn custom, they are representative of pilgrimages, symbolizing both protection & power, as well as visions. It is believed that seeing one denotes guardianship & many consider them to be messengers of the air & even the divine. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "These carnivorous birds live in plains or highlands. They use their sharp talons and beaks to catch and eat small animals and other birds. They soar calmly through the sky and search for prey from above.” -

Seagull (Larus _) = Necluda Sea & Lanayru Sea. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "These birds live near the ocean. They eat mainly fish, so a flock of seagulls hovering over water is a good indication of where there are fish. Fishermen use this to their advantage when searching for a catch of their own.” ウミカモメ (Umi kamome)

Cloud Seagull (Larus icarus) = Great Sky Island & North Necluda Sky. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "This seagull subspecies dwells mostly at high altitudes and is rarely seen on the surface, although one can occasionally be glimpsed through the clouds. They excel at catching updrafts and gliding around the sky, rarely flapping their wings.”

Eldin Ostrich (Struthio _) = Eldin. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "This large bird makes its home in the volcanic region of Eldin. Their heat-resistant feathers and skin are evolutionary traits produced by the harsh environment. Their wings are too small to facilitate flight, but their long legs make them pretty speedy runners.”

Forest Ostrich (Struthio _) = Great Sky Island & South Lanayru Sky. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "Flightless birds that are thought to have roamed all over Hyrule back when it had more grasslands. They resist cold but don't do well in hot climates because of their thick body covering. They're very alert and often turn their attention from the grass to look around.”

Cucco (Gallus domesticus) = Domestic. Greater Hyrule. The Sheikah know them as both *Kokko (_: コッコ, Cucco) & Kakkōdori (家ッ公鳥: カッコウドリ, Cucco Bird; lit. “House Companion Bird”) or just Kakkō (家ッ公: カッコウ, Cucco; lit. “House Companion”). In Lanayru, they are called *Cuccos (Pron: Koo-koh) or *Cocottes (Pron: Koo-kɔt). Gli Deyavalli instead call them *Coccòs. Though, en Mabéñoles, they call them *Cucos. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "Villages often raise these birds for their eggs, but some people actually keep them as pets. They can't fly but can flap their wings mighty furiously if picked up. They're usually calm creatures, but if you're persistent in your torment of them... Well…”

Animals that Should Be in the Wild Series:

Faron Dusk Monkeys (Plecturocebus _ or Callicebus _) = Faron & Ordona. - A/N: Inspired by the Monkeys from Twilight Princess, but also Dusky Titi Monkeys (Plecturocebus moloch or Callicebus moloch). I really like those!

Elk (Cervus hylianensis) = Central Hyrule. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: Based on the BotW: Second Wind mod.

Marriage Doves (Columba _) = Necluda & East Faron Coast. These lovely white birds with pink, heart-shaped beaks are born with only one wing each (males a right wing & females a left wing) & mate for life. It's only when they find their mate, always of the opposite wing, that the pair are finally able to fly. As such, they have become powerful symbols of the love, commitment, & balance needed for a strong & healthy marriage. Though they also represent peace & new beginnings much like all other species of dove do. - A/N: Inspired by Jian Birds (鹣) or (比翼鳥). When paired, it's called (鹣鹣).

Mountain Crows (Corvus macrorhynchos hylianensis) = The little fuckers that steal your rupees. Even though they are commonly depicted as being the familiars of evil witches, this is actually due to how they are associated with death. In reality, most animals refuse to associate with users of black magic due to its corruptive nature. In fact, corvids tend to despise those who use black magic & will attack viciously & in groups. Crows typically only attack Links for their Rupees due to how shiny they are.

Ravens (Corvus corax) = Actually much more chill than Crows & not as likely to attack people for their shinies. If one were to compare Crows with muggers, then Ravens are more akin to pickpockets. Even though they are commonly depicted as being the familiars of evil witches, this is actually due to how they are associated with death. In reality, most animals are much more likely to attack users of black magic due to its corruptive nature. In fact, corvids tend to despise those who use black magic & will attack viciously & in groups. Ravens generally don't physically attack people unless they've done something to specifically legitimately piss them off, such as use black magic. Oddly slow to true anger & will mostly instead choose to play petty pranks on people who've angered them. Ravens typically actually have very little issue with Links unless they do something to stir their ire. They'll still steal from Links, but they won't attack them without reason.

Crown-Crested Swans (Cygnus _) = A type of swan that bears a crest of golden feathers upon its head that greatly resembles a crown from the side. The feathers of its wings & tail also turn sky blue at the tips. Can be either domestic or wild. The Royal Family used to raise them in the Castle Gardens. They mostly live in Central Hyrule, but you can still find a handful in Necluda & Lanayru. Though, you really only see wild ones out that far & it's best to just leave them be. Can be aggressive fuckers despite how pretty they are.

Albatross (Phoebastria _) = Ocean, island-dwellers. They have adapted to having large, strong wings that allow them to soar over great distances. Interesting thing is that albatrosses aren’t considered birds of prey partly due to being known for their peaceful nature. They tend to spend a majority of their time flying over the open ocean in search of food. However, they actually do display aggression towards intruders on their breeding grounds, but this is perfectly understandable as it’s to protect their mates & nesting sites. They are also well-known for being extremely faithful mates that wait for the same mate every year & the males are very reliable fathers. Not only that, but they are some of the longest-lived birds known & even remain fertile for most of their lives resulting in many raising young into old age. Arubatosu (アルバトス) - A/N: Albatrosses can be Diomedea or Phoebastria. Irl, albatrosses aren’t considered birds of prey due to not having hooked beaks or sharp talons. However, here, I’m doing a bit of alteration so they have both of those, meaning the only reason they aren’t here is due to not normally being aggressive.

Blackfeather Albatross (Phoebastria nigr_) = They're seabirds known to nest on exposed sandy islands in the tropical _ (Pacific). They are also seen as symbols of both good & bad luck. Good luck is their general state, being signs of success & their presence is thought to bring fortune to seafarers. However, killing one turns all that luck around, placing a curse upon the ship of those who did so. As such, they are also thought of as occasionally symbolizing regret for past mistakes. As well as the guilt & shame that comes with such regrets, the consequences of one's actions, responsibility/accountability, the isolation that comes about because of these things, & the penance required to make up for it. Despite this, they are also believed to have magical healing abilities &, in some places, thought to embody the souls of lost sailors. There are also a few other things they are connected with. Things like mystery, fortune, endurance, everlasting love, transformation, introspection, travel, guidance & through that, finding direction, & also freedom. They are even connected to aeromancy & weather divination. - A/N: Based on the black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes).

Loftwings (_ _) = Domestic. Sky Islands. Lanayru *Célestrier (Pron: _). - A/N: Resembles a shoebill.

Remlits (_ _) = Domestic. Sky Islands. The unevolved cousin to the Zonai.

Ringers (_ _) = An interesting hybrid of a flying squirrel & a flying fox. The three bushy tails & the curled head crest of the little cuties come in the various colors of Rupees. They enjoy circling birds as they dive from high up. The only thing dangerous about them seems to be how dangerously cute they are! X3 - A/N: From Skyward Sword.

Shroom-Snout Swine (Sus scrofa _) = Domestic. Greater Hyrule. These black pigs are used to hunt for mushrooms, especially buried Hearty Truffles & Big Hearty Truffles. The sows are especially successful when they're in heat due to them having a similar scent to androstenal, which is typically produced by the males of their species. - A/N: Technically, you could call it a reference to the Pig Mask from MM, but also the Spanish black, Iberian, or Alentejo pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

Mystathi Pig (Sus scrofa _) = These pigs are descended from the ancient War Boars of the Desert Gerudo. In order to survive the cold, they've developed a thick coat of curly hair resembling that of a sheep. Somehow, they have also managed to retain the rather threatening tusks from their larger, more battle-hardened ancestors. And though not quite as talented of a fungus-sniffer as their less hairy distant cousins, they remain very skilled at it. - A/N: Inspired by the Mangalitza Pig (Sus scrofa).

War Boars (Sus scrofa _) = Gerudo Desert. These giant boars used to be used as war mounts by the Gerudo. Not nearly as quick as their horses, but definitely more powerful & durable. Not to mention dangerous with those tusks.

Bighorn Sheep (Ovis _nsis) = Domestic. Gerudo Region, both desert & highlands. Used for their milk & their wool which is good for both desert & snowy mountain climates depending on whether the wool is summer weight or winter weight. Highland-dwelling Bighorn Sheep have noticeably thicker coats. - A/N: Just bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis).

Dunerunner Ostriches (Struthio _) = Gerudo Desert. Can be domesticated, but takes skill to do so. Faster on the sand than War Boars or Sand Seals & some can be even faster than horses, but they are also far more difficult to tame & ride than horses. They're also not suitable for Gerudo mounts & are thus more likely to be raised for their eggs. However, Hylians are the perfect size to ride one.

Rainbow Peafowls (Pavo _us or Geldopavo _ensis) = Gerudo Oases, Gerudo Town, & Faron Jungle. Also called Oasis Peacocks. - A/N: Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus), green peafowl (Pavo muticus), & the Congo peafowl (Afropavo congensis).

Dusttail Foxes (Vulpes _) = Gerudo Desert. - A/N: Inspired by Fennec Foxes (Vulpus zerda).

Lanayru Serpents (_ _) = The waters of Lanayru & Necluda. - A/N: Based on the viperine water snake (Natrix maura), the water moccasin/cottonmouth viper (Agkistrodon piscivorus).

Deku Snake = (_ _) Kept secret by the Deku Scrubs, no one has caught it, so there's quite a large amount of money for those who manage it. Noted to be mythical. Loves Zapples. - A/N: From Echoes of Wisdom.

Sand Vipers (Vipera _) = Gerudo Desert. - Based on the Sahara sand Vipers (Cerastes vipera) & the nose-horned viper (Vipera ammodytes).

Gerudo Cobras (Naja _) = Gerudo Desert. Its hood is used as the symbol representative of the Gerudo as a whole. - A/N: Based on the Indian cobra (Naja naja) & the King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah).

Royal Cobras (Naja _) = Gerudo Desert. An extremely poisonous snake &, much like many members of the cobra family, are able to spray their venom at their prey. Heavily associated with Gerudo Royalty. The pattern on the back of the hood is different depending on whether it is male or female. Gerudo Kings by blood get the mark on the hood of male Royal Cobras tattooed onto their body. The same is said of Gerudo Queens by birth getting a tattoo of the female Royal Cobra's hood. Male Royal Cobras are referred to as kings & the females as queens. - A/N: Based heavily on the the King cobra (Ophiophagus hannah). The main difference here being that the Royal cobra is essentially if the King cobra were part of the cobra family.

Cobra Sharks (_ _) = Lives in the Gerudo Desert, in flowing sand. Though, they're tenacious & vindictive motherhubbards, & if they really have it out for you, they'll jump onto the more solid sand & are even able to follow their prey quite a while before eventually losing traction. At that point, they are basically 'dead in the water' & will die anyway, so might as well make their deaths worth something. They have a type of enzyme in their gums that facilitates infection in those they bite in a similar way to venom, thus earning them their name. Due to living in sand, they have no eyes & instead, navigate mainly by scent & sound. Unlike most sandfish, this one needs to be lured to the surface & killed manually, best to use spears. The Gerudo refer to them as Kōbra Samàqen. - A/N: Resembles a Zebra Shark (Stegostoma tigrinum) if they had stripes instead of spots. Note: Finning is illegal even in Hyrule & the law is enforced strictly. Also, please note that Shark Fin doesn't actually have any flavor. The reason its fins are used is so that no part of the shark is wasted. However, Shark Meat is delicious. Each shark gives 4-8 Shark Fins, 3-5 Shark Meat, 1-3 Shark Bones, & between 5 & as many as 10 Shark Teeth, but higher numbers have decreasing potentiality.

Gerudàn Horses (Equus caballus giganteus) = Basically the Giant Horse, but more than one & these ones are specifically bred & raised by the Gerudo, which they use as calvary & in horseback archery. The only horses that can travel the desert as they are specifically trained to do so. The Gerudo also know how to forge special horseshoes that helps them distribute their weight, thus allowing them to travel more quickly over the sand. The only horses that can carry a full-grown Gerudo. Though the main feature of this species is their gigantism (averaging at around 8'7”, 103 inches, or 261.62cm tall for mares), they also possess harder hooves with feathers on their lower legs as well as short coats, flared nostrils, & high arched necks. They are commonly built for endurance running, as such while Sand Seals are exceptional over a kilometer or so, it's quite rare to find one that does well for extended distances. Thus, Gerudàn horses are more suited to establishing desert trade routes than Sand Seals, who are faster, but don't possess the endurance or the pulling strength necessary to do so. Similarly, the earliest breeds of Gerudàn horse were valued highly for their speed, stamina, their striking beauty, intelligence, gentle, affectionate nature, & proud spirits. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - A/N: Based on the Arabian horse (Equus caballus _), the Shire horse (Equus caballus _), & the extinct Giant Horse (Equus giganteus). Shire horses are the largest breed of horse in the world, averaging at around 6 feet or 18 hands tall while the Giant Horse of ancient North America averaged around 6.6.

Goponga Alligator (Alligator _ensis) = Lanayru, mostly around the Lanayru Swamplands & Lanayru Great Spring areas. - A/N: American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) & Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis).

Faron Crocodile (Crocodylus _us) = Faron Jungle only.

Oxen Sharks (Isurus _ or Hexanchus _) = The Oxen Shark swims all along the Faron-Necludic Coast. Their population is strictly regulated. As such, they are sustainable enough to be eaten if a person only catches one. Faron Coastal residents will often catch one or two & have little parties where the featured ingredient is shark as they use as much of the animal as possible. The Sheikah refer to Oxen Sharks as Oushizame (牡牛ザメ, direct translation). Residents of Lurelin refer to them as Kauo Niuhi. - A/N: Based on the bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus), otherwise known as the cow shark, as well as the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) & longfin mako (Isurus paucus). Note: Finning is illegal even in Hyrule & the law is enforced strictly. Also, please note that Shark Fin doesn't actually have any flavor. The reason its fins are used is so that no part of the shark is wasted. However, Shark Meat is delicious. Each shark gives 4-8 Shark Fins, 3-5 Shark Meat, 1-3 Shark Bones, & between 5 & as many as 10 Shark Teeth, but higher numbers have decreasing potentiality.

Ordon Goats (Capra aegagrus ordonansis) = Both Wild & Domestic. Ordona & seasonally Gerudo. Unique in that they're much larger than other goats with gray-ish blue fur & horns that form a complete circle or ovoid atop their heads. So large, in fact, that the average Hylian can ride a fully-grown one (about the size of Epona, if shorter). Their milk has a distinct taste that separates it from that of other goats. While they can also be found in the Gerudo Region during certain seasons, they mostly dwell in Ordona as that is where they are native. As such, the Gerudo know how to care for them, but not nearly to the same degree as Ordonians. While not normally a threat, when angered they can be difficult to deal with & in order to stop them, one must grab them by the horns & flip them onto their back. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Sheikah *_ Yagi (_: _ヤギ). Lanayru *Chèvre _ (Pron: _). Deyá *Capra _ (Pron: _). Mabé *Cabra _. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _. Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. - A/N: The Faron Grasslands being renamed Ordona here. TP.

Gulch Ibex = (Capra ibex) They may be related to the much-vaunted Ordon Goats of Ordon.

Wasteland Ibex = (Capra ibex gerudae) These goats are known for being lively & playful, but also very tough. Their tan coats are short, making them adapted to the desert. Their ancestors were the Gulch Ibex. - A/N: Based on the Bedouin tribes raising Nubian ibex.

Swampland Buffalo or Bayou Buffalo (B. Bubalus bubalis kerebau or B. Bubalus carabanensis) = These bovine are kept mostly for work, but also for milk. Swamp Buffalo can be either black or white, & sometimes both, with gently curved horns. While smaller than their less civilized cousins, Bayou Buffalo are still larger than their fellow domestic cousins. They are also more ashy gray in color with a drooping neck. They are only raised in the Limnanthes Bayou (Lanayru Wetlands), as such, they provide for most of Lanayru’s dairy needs & it the primary source of milk that is shipped out to other locations across Lanayru to be processed into cream or butter. Numachi no Suigyū (沼地の水牛: ぬまちのすいぎゅう) or Numagyū (沼牛: ぬまぎゅう) for domestic swamp buffalo. Buffleau des Marais (Pron: Byflü dee Mah-rey) or Buffleau des Bayou (Pron: Byflü dee Bah-yoo) depending on where exactly they are being raised. Deyá _ (Pron: _). Mabé _. Gerudo _ (Pron: _). Hebran _ (Pron: _). Rito _; _ & _tanka. Ordon _ (Pron: _). Faron _ (Pron: _). Hateno _. - A/N: Also called carabao or kalabaw (Philippines; lives in tropical swampland). Wild ones are Bubalus arnee & domesticated ones are Bubalus bubalis. The domestic water buffalo comprises two subspecies: the river buffalo (B. bubalis bubalis) & the swamp buffalo (B. bubalis kerebau).

Flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber) = Faron, especially Lurelin.

Cats (Felis catus) = Domestic. Greater Hyrule. Why are there no cats?? Maybe a few of different kinds like Tabbies, Oranges, Calicos.

Catamounts (Felis _) = Wild & dangerous. Lives on forested mountains all over Hyrule, including Central Hyrule, Necluda, Lanayru, & Akkala. - A/N: Catamount literally translates to “cat of the mountain.” A mix of Bobcats (Lynx rufus) & Mountain Lions (Puma concolor).

Mountain Tigers (Felis tigris _) = Wild & dangerous. Lives in the Hebra Mountains. - A/N: Like a mix between a Mountain Lion (Felis puma concolor) & a White Bengal Tiger (Felis Panthera tigris tigris).

Jungle Tigers (Panthera tigris fatalis) = Wild & extremely dangerous. Ferocious. Lives in the Faron Jungle & will occasionally wander into the Faron East Coast. Caution: Extremely dangerous because water won't stop them as they actually quite enjoy swimming. One of the most dangerous predators in Hyrule that isn't a monster. Superseded by Lynels. At least, one on one. The 2 creatures have only been noted to meet once or twice as most Lynels prefer open areas while Jungle Tigers prefer densely wooded areas. The one known time they have been recorded to meet, it was a Red Lynel who had trespassed in the Faron East Coast. While the Lynel managed to fight off the solo Jungle Tiger, it later came back with its pride & they managed to kill the Lynel by luring it into uneven terrain & sneak attacking it before piling on top of him, though not without losing a few. It has thus been concluded that while not as dangerous alone as even a Red Lynel on their own, they have the advantage of being more cooperative than Lynels, who are solitary by nature. - A/N: Like a larger bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) or Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), but with saber-teeth (Smilodon fatalis).

Sebala (Felis caracal domesticus) = Domestic. Lives in the Gerudo Desert. Very, very small, but very, very deadly if provoked. And, are known for possessing a 90% kill success rate. Fantastic hunters & trackers. And extremely sassy. A bit smaller than the typical housecat. May share a common ancestor with Remlits. - A/N: Inspired by IRL Sand Cats (Felis margarita) & Black-Footed Cats (Felis nigripes), but spotted like cheetahs instead of striped & possessing long claws. Miershooptier, meaning “anthill tiger.” English: Black-footed cat, Small-spotted cat; Sesotho: Tsetsa, Xhosa: Ingwe yeziduli; Afrikaans: Klein gekolde kat, Swart-poot kat, Meirshooptie; Tswana: Sebala, Sebala-molokwane, Sebelabala.

Taiga Cats = (Felis caracal domesticus var. lynx) Domestic. Lives in the Gerudo Highlands. Larger than the Sand Cat, as well as more muscular, but still every bit as deadly if provoked. With a 60% predation rate. Fantastic hunters & trackers. And extremely sassy, yet also very friendly when they like or trust you. Used to be Sand Cats until they migrated with their mistresses to live in the Highlands. - A/N: Inspired by sand cats (Felis margarita), black-footed cats (Felis nigripes), snow leopards (Felis panthera uncia) or Siberian lynx (Felis lynx wrangeli), & maine coons (Felis catus). The coloration & patterning of snow leopards, the long, fluffy fur & size of maine coons, & the broad ears of Sand Cats, but pointed like a lynx. Also having very long claws.

Dune Caracal (Felis caracal var. _) = The wild cousin of the Sand Cat from which they were domesticated. - A/N: Imagine a spotted Sand Cat (Felis margarita) about the size of a Bobcat (Felis lynx rufus). But the look of a desert lynx or caracal (Felis caracal).

Highland Yaks (_ _) = Domestic. Gerudo Highlands. Used for yak wool & yak milk.

Meadow Rabbits (Lepus _) = Hyrule Field. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." -

Snowdrift Rabbits (Lepus _) = Hebra & the Gerudo Highlands.

Wasteland Hare (Lepus tibetanus) = Gerudo Desert, Gerudo Canyon, & the Ordona Grasslands. - Based on the Desert Hare (Lepus tibetanus).

Jackalope (Classified as Lepus _, but is actually a male of the species Lepus tibetanus) = Gerudo Desert, Gerudo Canyon, & the Ordona Grasslands. An extremely rare hare with antlers. Often mistaken for Blupees at night, so it isn't unusual to shoot them by accident only for the hunter to feel somewhat guilty when instead of some quick change, he finds the corpse of an antlered hare. It's considered a mixed bag of sorts as the feet are considered good luck, but the antlers are bad luck. As a result, people tend to view them as fae of sorts. Some people speculate that Jackalopes are actually male Wasteland Hares as no one has really seemed to catch a male hare before.

Forest Owls (_ _) = Wooded areas. Nocturnal.

Snow Owls (_ _) = Wooded areas in Hebra. Nocturnal. Often mistaken for ghosts due to how silently they can fly, their ghostly white color, the tapetum lucidum in their eyes, & the fact that they're only seen at night.

Tabantha Oxen (_ _) = Domestic. Tabantha Tundra. Provides Fresh Milk. - A/N: Baby oxen are called stots or calves.

Hebran Bison (Bison _) = The wild brethren of the domesticated Tabantha Ox. Bison is an old Hylian word meaning “Wild ox.”

Estrellonez Cows & Estrellonez Bulls (Bos taurus var. stellamanducare) = A type of cattle raised exclusively at Rancho Lonez in Mabévilla, only a stone's throw to the southeast of the capital. Lonez being the surname of the family that owns the ranch & the cows. The cows themselves have a mostly cream-colored coat, speckled sparingly with small black & peachy pink-colored splotches (more pink splotches than black ones) & even more sparingly with larger tan splotches. They also tend to have star-shaped patterns on their foreheads. These cattle often graze on the Starlight Rosemary that grows in the Hyrule Great Plains, possibly being part of the reason for their Radiant Butter's luminescent qualities. The name for them in the local native tongue of Mabéñoles is Vacas de Estrellónez (Star Cattle), but a female is a Vacilla de Estrellona (Starlet Cow) & a male is a Toro de Estrellón (“Starlon” Bull), or more recently, Estrevacas (Star-Cows) & Estretoros (Star-Bulls). The Sheikah can be a bit… dramatic about their exonym for the bovines in that they go so far as to call them Seikakui no Ushi (星花喰いの牛: セイカクイのウシ, Starflower-Eating Cattle) with studs being Seisutsū no Taneushi (星突撃の種牛: _タネウシ, Star-Charging Stud) & milchers as Seikakui no Nyūngyū (星花喰いの乳牛: セイカクイのニュウンウギュウ, Starflower-Eating Dairy Cow). Lanayru Bétail Étoilé (Pron: Bee-tah-ihl Ee-twah-lee, Stellated Cattle); Vaches Laitières Étoilées (Pron: Vush Lee-tyehʁ Ee-twah-lee, Stellated Dairy Cows) for the milchers & Taureaux Étoilés (Pron: Toh-ʁoo Ee-twah-lee, Stellated Bulls) for the bulls. Deyá Mucche Stellate (Pron: Moo-keh Steh-lah-teh, Starry Cattle); Mucca Stellata (Starlit Cows) & Monta Stellato (Starlit Studs). Gerudo Estàrbōen (Pron: Eh-stahr-boh-ehn); Estàr Mïbōdrïn & Estàr Bōnàken. Hebran Jǫrðstjarna Kýr (Pron: Yord-sh-tay-ʁnah Kür, Earthstar Cattle); Stjerna Mál-nyta (Pron: Sh-tahʁ-nah MOL-nytah, Star Milcher) for the females & Stjerna Stóðarfr (Pron: Sh-tahʁ-nah Stō-thahr-fr, Star Stud-Bull) for the females. Rito Asanai Ihka(ke) or Asanaihka; Asa-Pimoróo for milches & Asa-Ihkatanka for bulls. Ordon tends to stay fairly simple by staying with Bó-Rétlu (Pron: Boh-Reet-loo, Star-Cow) & Bà-Rétlu (Pron: Baw-Reet-loo, Star-Cows) for the most part. Though, for unusual situations, a females are Bó-Bainne Réalta (Pron: Boh-Bann-neh RRAYL-tah, Starlight Milkcow), or Bà-Bainne Réaltaí (Pron: Baw-Bann-neh RREEL-tee, Starlight Milkcows) when in a herd, & Tarbh Réalta (Pron: Tarv RRAYL-tah, Starlight Bull) for males. Faron Hōkū'iwi Kau; Hōkū Mirakau for milches & Hōkū Pūru for bulls. Hateno Bà Reulèannan (Pron: Bah Rrē-lee-ah-nahn, Star-Meadow Cattle); Bò Reulach (Pron: Bow Rroo-lahKH, Starry Cow) & Tarbh Reulach (Pron: Tarv Rroo-lahKH, Starry Bull). - A/N: A bit of a re-imagining of the Lon Lon Cows, inspired by Star Cows & Marbled Cows from A Wonderful Life. Estrellónez is also supposed to be a pun on Estrellónes & Lonez. Estrellado is starry, stellate, stellated, star-shaped, covered with stars, or starlit. Estrellato is stardom. And Seisutsū is an honestly awful attempt as trying to make Seisutotsugeki (星す突撃) more compact.

(Not my best work, but what can ya do?)

Big-Horned Rhinoceros (_ _) = Hebra Mountains & Gerudo Highlands. | BotW: “_.” | TotK: "_." - The fuck did they go???

Dolphins (_ _) = Because cool. Not rapists of the sea here. Faron & Necluda Seas.

Unicorns (Equus antiquitus monoceros) = Because why not? Old forests of Greater Hyrule. Its horn gives it access to purifying & healing magic.

Pegasi (Equus antiquitus pegasi) = Because Pegasus Boots but no pegasi?? Sky Islands.

Hippocampi (Hippocampus antiquitus) = Because we need more aquatic animals. Faron & Necluda Seas.

Horned Hippocampi (Hippocampus antiquitus monoceros) = Has a narwhal-like horn on its forehead that it uses to channel magic & control the currents around it.

Finned Hippocampi (Hippocampus antiquitus pegasi) = Has back fins similar to that of a flying fish, allowing it to jump out of the water & glide a short distance.

Stymphalian Bird (_ _) = These massive, man-eating birds are known for having bronze beaks, sharp blade-like feathers which they were able to shoot at their prey, & poisonous dung. They are known to dwell in an ancient swamp. - Pausanias described them as crane-sized with an ibis-like shape and a strong bill; He also compared them to hawks or eagles.

Roc (_ _) = A massive-ass, fuck-off desert bird so large that its wings block out the sun & a beat from them causes gale force sand tornadoes. Its feathers are imbued with wind magic & were once use to make Roc Capes, which allowed the wearer to jump high, long distances, & even glide. Much like the Sīmurgh, can pick up & carry off full-grown Molduga. This makes it the natural predator of said Molduga. Acts as a sort of mini-boss much like Hinoxes & Lynels despite not being monsters. Though, they do tend to cause issues for people by taking livestock.

Phoenix (_ _) = Very Rare. Sky Islands & Eldin Region. Can be killed, but it's considered bad luck. When killed it bursts into flames & crumbles into ash before leaving behind a few drops. It's implied that the Pheonix isn't actually dead, rather restarting its life cycle. However, being forced to repeat said cycle when they don't need to is actually very frustrating & inconvenient, not to mention rude. In the beginning, the Phoenixes are corrupted by evil & are instead called Furnixes. After purifying their queen & helping her with a purifying ritual, the Phoenixes return to their original states & gift Link with rare drops whenever they see him. Or in the case of Link being in battle at the time, they will come to his aid.

Phoenix Queen (_ _) = The benevolent monarch of the Phoenixes. Very large & resembles the Fenghuang, having peacock-like traits. When Link meets her, she is known as the Furnix Queen & acts as a boss, however upon defeating her (specifically with the Master Sword, a Light Arrow, or some form of Light or Twilight Magic), she bursts into flames & her ashes fall upon the ground. If Link later returns to the place where he defeated her & the thing that dealt the final blow was either the Master Sword or some form of Light or Twilight Magic, then in the place of the Furnix Queen will be the Phoenix Queen, who will thank Link graciously for purifying her. She will then request that he aid her in a ritual that will purify all her kin. After which, all the Furnixes will change to Phoenixes.

Estuarine Mallard = (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus var. aestuaricola) These large-bodied, domesticated dabbling ducks are known for their varied colored feathers, as well as their grey bills & feet. While largely white or brown-bodied depending on their sex, they have vivid blue & green-tinted stripes on their wings. The drakes have mostly white feathers on their main bodies, but beautifully green-feathered heads. And, while the hens are almost entirely tan in color, their feathers also have very attractive coffee or walnut-colored patterns on them. And, although the Estuarine Mallard is best known for meat production, the hens are capable of laying a decent amount of greenish-blue to sagebrush green eggs, thus making them more dual-purpose in use. Due to having adapted to a fluviatile lifestyle, they've developed a certain hardiness that would allow them to thrive in many different habitats. However, Lanayru has always been their preferred residence & likely always will. This breed of duck actually came about due to how wet & rainy Lanayru tends to be. This, alongside the seasonal flooding, resulted in Lanayru residents tending more towards the use of ducks rather than Cuccos. And because of Lanayru's riverine coastal environment, they were bred to not only remain unbothered by the wetness, but absolutely love it there. Similarly, this variety of duck is also known for their grazing habits, making them quite helpful in maintaining vegetation wherever they dwell. Personality-wise, Estuarine Mallards are generally pretty calm & placid in temperament. They're also social animals by nature, as well as being fairly affable, enjoying the company of other ducks & regularly interacting with their people. They actually become quite attached to their owners & are known to follow them throughout their daily chores. And though most Estuarine Mallards are fairly quiet, the hens can often be found honking calmly together in groups known as “rafts.” So, while not loud, they can be chatty. Interestingly, although their gentle dispositions make them easy to handle, something to keep in mind is that these Mallards are smart, curious, & have a penchant for being somewhat adventurous. Because of this, they tend to wander at times, often going off to explore their surroundings as they quite enjoy discovering new things. However, do not worry too terribly, they can handle themselves just fine & have an innate sense of direction. Unless something really bad happens, they always come back by sundown. Called Colverts Estuariens (Pron: Kul-veyʁ Es-h-styoo-ah-ʁyã) in Lanayru.

A/N: Heavily based on Rouen Ducks (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus), which are a French breed known for their Mallard-like appearance, while also being easier to keep. Though, my version of them are a tad bit more prone to flying. Not often, but if it strikes their fancy, then yes. The buggers will fly. Estuarine & estuarial means ‘formed or found in an estuary.’ Aestuarium means “tidal inlet of the sea.” Also refers to “a tidal marsh, mudbeds covered by water at high tides; channel inland from the sea.” Inspired by @pochamarex's cool little Cucco Lore, where they suggest that due to all the flooding, those living in Lanayru would use ducks instead of Cuccos. I thought it was brilliant!

Hyrulean Gilded Cucco (Gallus domesticus var. aureplumis) = The vaunted offspring of extremely happy & well-taken-care-of Cuccos. They are insanely rare & hard to come by. They come from eggs that have a lightly sparkling, pale gold-like sheen to their shells & slightly shimmering yolks. Both the eggs & the Gilded Cucco are sought after by the rich as the eggs themselves are a luxury food & are often an ingredient in gourmet recipes. Gilded Cuccos can be found anywhere in Hyrule, but are extremely rare & mostly found in Ordon. The reason being that the hatching of a Gilded Cucco is considered the mark of an exceptional cucco farmer. Technically, one can be hatched anywhere depending on how well its mother was raised, it just so happens that Ordon tends to produce these more often than other places. It's said that a Gilded Egg is laid when a hen is positively brimming with happiness & contentment & love for its farmer. Thus, having one is considered a point of pride amongst cucco farmers. If that Gilded Egg happens to be fertilized, then it can hatch a Gilded Cucco. And if that Gilded Cucco is a hen as well, it too will produce Gilded Eggs. And consistently. On the other hand, a Gilded Rooster means that any one of the hens that it roosts with can lay Gilded Eggs, but much less consistently. Though, rarely will any of those eggs be fertilized, only happening when that Gilded Hen has reached that same threshold as their mother did before & a Gilded Cucco can only lay one fertilized Gilded Egg in its entire life. No one knows why their fertility rates are so much lower than the typical Cucco, but a lot of old ranchers & chicken farmers say that it's to keep ya from getting complacent or a big head. It's also said that hatching & raising a Gilded Cucco causes a blessing to be placed upon the farmer's family & land that only leaves it if the cuccos are ever treated badly by their keepers. It's nothing too extreme, just more good luck, higher yields, higher quality products, longer harvests, shorter winters, stuff like that. You'd barely notice unless you were paying very close attention. All the same, these little things do tend to add up.

Gilded Eggs are very nutritious & delicious, even more so than the typical egg, which is already considered a superfood, & are known for the sparkling, pale gold-like sheen to them. Their yolks being known to shimmer slightly & are the absolute best when done over medium so that the whites are cooked, but the yolk remains runny. These eggs are considered a luxury & are often sought after by the rich. A single ranching community typically can't have more than 3 Gilded Cuccos at once. Though, even still, it is insanely rare to get just 1, let alone more than that. And with each Gilded Cucco, the likelihood of hatching another, decreases. However, there is a way to circumvent this to a degree. But it requires a cucco farmer with a Gilded Hen & a Gilded Rooster, which is even less likely than hatching a second Gilded Cucco. As such, it's far more viable for 2 cucco farmers, one with a Gilded Rooster & one with a Gilded Hen, to make a deal to breed them. There’s often a written agreement with witnesses ensuring that the owner of the Gilded Rooster is due half of the profits made off the Gilded Eggs lain by the hen. However, this has resulted in the beginning of… a bit of what one might call “Cucco Royalty” within the farming community. This first came about when one clever little Sheikah girl who was in a secret relationship with an Ordonian boy. However, their families were bitter enemies for several generations as both insisted on having been the first blessed with a Gilded Cucco. But, the Sheikah girl, as the owner of her family’s generation of Gilded Rooster, had the idea to elope at the Temple of Time while adding the first agreement to have their Cuccos breed & allow their families to split the profits from the resulting eggs. There was outrage & anger… but the promise of half the profits… Let’s just say that it smoothed things over fairly quickly. Lanayru *Cuccos d'Or (Pron: Koo-koo doʁ) or Cocottes d'Or (Pron: Koo-kɔt doʁ). Deya Coccòs Dorato. Mabé Cucos Dorado. - Twilight Princess & Hyrule Warriors.

Weather Cucco, Blue-Silk Cucco, or Silky Blucco (Gallus domesticus ‘bantam’ var. tempestanimbus) = This ancient Hebran variety of black-skinned & blue-feathered, fluffy Bantam Cuccos are known to be able to glide for a decent distance & the males are even able to fly for short ones. While this is partially a result of their larger wingspans, it is also mostly due to the barbicels in the males’ wingfeathers that most other varieties of Cucco lack. They are quite well-liked partly because of their small sizes, their police, friendly nature, & fluffy plumage that is often compared to silk. Though, the feathers of their wings tend to have a more down quality to them. Known for possessing larger wings & more ornate, curling tailfeathers than other Cuccos. On the other hand, as with other breeds of Bantam, they produce smaller eggs. Not to mention, they also have a tendency to brood, meaning that the hens will much more frequently lay on their clutches until they hatch. While not a problem when the eggs are fertilized as it means they will bring in more chicks, when those eggs aren’t fertilized, it tends to disrupt things, making them not as reliable as producers. Despite this, the hens are wonderful mothers. On the other hand, Silky Bluccos are actually fairly cold-hardy as a result of their plumage & will continue laying through winter where most other breeds wouldn’t. Which explains why they’re the primary poultry raised in Hebra. The Sheikah know them as both *_ Kokko (_: _コッコ, _) & _ Kakkōdori (_家ッ公鳥: _カッコウドリ, _ Cucco-Bird; lit. “_ House-Companion-Bird”) or just _ Kakkō (_家ッ公: _カッコウ, _ Cucco; lit. “_ House-Companion”). In Lanayru, they are called Poulets de Soie-Azurs (Pron: Pü-leh dü Swa-zyüʁ), Cuccobaltes de Soies (Pron: Kü-koo-bahlt dü Swa), Cocottes Voiles (Pron: Koh-kɔt Vwal), Cocottes Azur-Soies (Pron: Koh-kɔt Ah-zyüʁ-Swa, Sky-Silk _); Poules de Voiles (Pron: Pül dü Vwal) for hens & Coq de Volant (Pron: Kɔk dü Vɔlãɲ) for roosters. Gli Deyavalli instead call them Coccòs Setazzurros (Pron: ) or Coccòblùs Setas (Pron: ). Though, en Mabéñoles, they call them Cucos Sedazules.

Inspired by a number of in-game blue cuccos, from the Kojiro Cucco or Kojiro (コジロー), Kokkojiro (コッコジロウ), P'tit Poulet (Pron: Ptee Poo-leh), Coblùs (Pron: ), or Cojiros, from OoT. The Flying Rooster or Soratobu Kokko (空飛ぶ: そらとぶコッコ, Cuckoo that Flies in the Sky) & Weathercock or Kazamidori (風見鶏: カザミドリ, Wind-Viewing Chicken) from Link's Awakening. As well as the Blue Cucco, Blucco (_ _), *Le Coq Volant (Pron: Lü Kɔk Vɔlãɲ, Flying Rooster) or simply *Volant (Pron: Vɔlãɲ, Flying) from Oracle of Seasons. As well as the multiple different names for the weathervane, such as Vent d'Eau (Pron: Vãŋ dɔ), Voile d'Eau (Pron: Vwal dɔ), Giroutte à Coq (Pron: Zshee-roo-et ah Kɔk, Rooster Weather Vane or Wind Indicator) or Coq Gaulois (Pron: Kɔk Gol-wa), & Chanteclair (Pron: Shãɲ-teh-klaiʁ). I may make them somewhat inspired by the silkie & blue chickens, which are an ancient breed of fluffy chicken with friendly & docile natures known for their soft & fluffy feathers, often compared to silk or fur. While not prolific layers of large eggs (as they brood more frequently than other breeds), due to their plumage, Silkies are relatively cold-hardy & will actually continue to lay eggs through the winter, unlike some other breeds that may stop laying during that time. As such, that can act as a bit of a counter balance for them laying smaller, nearly bantam-sized eggs. With some influence from the blue cochin, which have soft downy feathers, super bright red combs, & lay brown eggs. As such, due to being cold-hardy, they may be an ideal livestock for Tabantha.

Other:

Ghosts = Not necessarily plot important ghosts either. Just ghosts of random people. Do a bit of old school stuff where you gotta help them be ready to move on. Maybe give Link an instrument so he can learn to play the Song of Healing.

Keatons (_ _) = The Gentle Jesters & guardian spirits of the Sheikah. Known for asking riddles. Kitsune-san (狐桑; きつねさん, キツネサン) or Kītan (キータン; きーたん). - From Majora's Mask.

Minish (_ _) = Crafty little helper elves of Hyrule. Can only be seen by children. - From Minish Cap.

Yeti (_ _) = They resemble Yeto & Yeta, but are an entire race of people. Isolationists that generally live in the deep mountains of Hebra. Generally quite friendly & hardy as a people, but tend to keep to themselves. - From Twilight Princess & Echoes of Wisdom.

Twili (_ _) = The descendants of a Sheikah faction that splintered off from the main tribe in an attempt to take over Hyrule much like the Yiga. However, unlike the Yiga, the Twili have become mostly peaceful since their banishment to the Twilight. - From Twilight Princess.

Mogmas (_ _) = They were such fun characters. I kinda wish there'd been some female & kid Mogmas too. They'd have been neat as residents of the Depths with close ties to the Gorons. Like, they come across as being Italian mafia adjacent, but only in so much as the accent, the attitude, & family-oriented orginization. Sort of a "it takes a village" & "we take care of our own" type of mentality. Not in any way actually mafia though. They also love treasure & will risk life & limb for it, yet they quite easily give those same treasures away to those they consider friends. In this way, though they appear cowardly & greedy on the surface, they are actually brave & generous. It seems to be a cultural trait to give gifts, practically a love language. - From Skyward Sword.

Kikwi (_ _) = Quite a shy, skittish race of people, but overall friendly & helpful. - From Skyward Sword.

Deku Scrubs (_ _) = A race of bush people. They are quite business-minded but tend to get a bit too enthusiastic regarding possible customers. - From Minish Cap & Majora's Mask.

Swamp Zora (_ _) = I like the idea of a split in the Zora. The Zora as allies have always been refined & elegant. It's interesting to see a possible version of them that isn't as such. In a way, I've sort of begun seeing the River Zora that we know as analogous to French & these new Zora as Louisianan. So, I think of them as swamp-dwellers. Possibly having ties with the Deku Scrubs. - From A Link to the Past, Oracle of Seasons, Oracle of Ages, A Link Between Worlds, & Echoes of Wisdom.

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For some other Hyrulean flora & fauna in the form of ingredients, go to my Wild Ingredients: Meat & By-Products List.

Also, this is free to use, so long as I'm mentioned & possibly tagged.

And, in case any of ya'll see something you think would fit into your wips:

@skyloftian-nutcase @alasse-earfalas @jullbnt @bigsoftmarshmallow @smilesrobotlover @sunset-peril @christian-zelda

Enjoy!

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LoZ Cultural Masterlist 1

[deathmoth-blog]

Beautiful black witch moth

The erebid moth Ascalapha odorata, commonly known as the black witch, is a large bat-shaped, dark-colored nocturnal moth, normally ranging from the southern United States to Brazil. Ascalapha odorata is also migratory into Canada and most states of United States. It is the largest noctuoid in the continental United States. In the folklore of many Central American cultures, it is associated with death or misfortune.

Female moths can attain a wingspan of 24 cm. The dorsal surfaces of their wings are mottled brown with hints of iridescent purple and pink, and, in females, crossed by a white bar. The diagnostic marking is a small spot on each forewing shaped like a number nine or a comma. This spot is often green with orange highlights. Males are somewhat smaller, reaching 12 cm in width, darker in color and lacking the white bar crossing the wings. The larva is a large caterpillar up to 7 cm in length with intricate patterns of black and greenish-brown spots and stripes.

The black witch lives from the southern United States, Mexico and Central America to Brazil, and has apparently been introduced to Hawaii.[citation needed]

The black witch flies north during late spring and summer. One was caught during an owl banding project at the Whitefish Point lighthouse on the shoreline of Lake Superior in July 2020.[citation needed]

The black witch is considered a harbinger of death in Mexican and Caribbean folklore. In many cultures, one of these moths flying into the house is considered bad luck: e.g., in Mexico, when there is sickness in a house and this moth enters, it is believed the sick person will die, though a variation on this theme (in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas) is that death only occurs if the moth flies in and visits all four corners of one's house (in Mesoamerica, from the pre-Hispanic era until the present time, moths have been associated with death and the number four). In some parts of Mexico, people joke that if one flies over someone's head, the person will lose his hair.

In Jamaica, under the name duppy bat, the black witch is seen as the embodiment of a lost soul or a soul not at rest. In Jamaican English, the word duppy is associated with malevolent spirits returning to inflict harm upon the living and bat refers to anything other than a bird that flies. The word "duppy" (also: "duppie") is also used in other West Indian countries, generally meaning "ghost".

In Brazil it is called "mariposa-bruxa", "mariposa-negra", "bruxa-negra", and "bruxa", and it is also believed that when a moth of this type enters the house it can bring some "bad omen", signaling the death of a resident. In the Ecuadorian highlands they are called Tandacuchi and in Peru Taparacuy or Taparaco. These countries share the belief that if this moth, a messenger of death, appears in your home, someone will die very soon.

In Hawaii, black witch mythology, though associated with death, has a happier note in that if a loved one has just died, the moth is an embodiment of the person's soul returning to say goodbye. In the Bahamas, where they are locally known as money moths or money bats, the legend is that if they land on you, you will come into money, and similarly, in South Texas, if a black witch lands above your door and stays there for a while, you will supposedly win the lottery.

In Paraguay and Argentina, this insect is mostly known as "ura", and there is a popular belief that this moth urinates and leaves worms on the skin of people and animals. However, the insect that lays eggs in the skin and whose larvae become embedded in the flesh is the colmoyote or screwworm (Dermatobia hominis).

In Spanish, the black witch is known as "mariposa de la muerte". Other names for the moth include the papillion-devil, la sorcière noire, the mourning moth or the sorrow moth.[citation needed]

Black witch moth pupae were placed in the mouths of victims of serial killer 'Buffalo Bill' in the novel The Silence of the Lambs. In the movie adaptation, they were replaced by death's-head hawkmoth pupae.

[silkfyre]

W.I.D

The following content does not limit the type of requests I accept. If there is a topic or character that is not listed, but you wish to have included feel free to ask! If I’m ever uncomfortable with something I will simply deny the request.

HIGHLIGHTED names are my personal favorite characters. 

WRITING

Fluff

Smut

Angst

Yandere

Violence

Dub-Con

Polyamory

OTHER

Fancasts

Writing Tips

Script Creation

Character Building

CHARACTERS

HORROR

The Boy

Brahms Heelshire

The Quarry

Abigail Blyg

Emma Mountebank

Jacob Custos

Laura Kearney

Max Brinley

Ryan Erzahler

Travis Hackett

The Lost Boys

David

Dwayne

Marko

Michael

Paul

House of Wax

Bo Sinclair

Lester Sinclair

Vincent Sinclair

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Thomas Hewitt (Leatherface)

Halloween

Michael Myers

Scream

Billy Loomis

Randy Meeks

Stu Macher

American Horror Story

James Patrick March

Jimmy Darling

Yellowjackets

Lottie Matthews

Misty Quigley

Natalie Scatorccio

Shauna Sadecki

Taissa Turner

Van Palmer

SCI-FI

The Boys

A-Train

Billy Butcher

Black Noir

Frenchie

Homelander

Hughie Campbell

Kimiko Miyashiro

Mother's Milk

Queen Maeve

Soldier Boy

Starlight

Detroit: Become Human

Chloe

Conner

Gavin Reed

Hank Anderson

Josh

Kara

Luther

Markus

North

Ralph

Rk600 (Sixty)

RK900 (Nines)

Simon

Fallout

Fallout 4

Deacon

John Hancock

Nick Valentine

Paladin Danse

Piper Shaw

Preston Garvey

Robert MacCready

Fallout (series)

Aspirant Dane

Chet

Cooper Howard (The Ghoul)

Knight Maximus

Lucy MacClean

Norm MacLean

Alien vs Predator

coming soon!

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington

The Walking Dead

Daryl Dixon

Eugene Porter

James Cameron’s Avatar

Eetu

Lyle Wainfleet

Mansk

Miles Quaritch

Nor

So’lek

Teylan

Tsu’tey te Rongloa Ateyitan

SUPERNATURAL

TVD Verse

Bonnie Bennett

Caroline Forbes

Damon Salvatore

Elena Gilbert

Elijah Mikaelson

Finn Mikaelson

Jeremy Gilbert

Katherine Pierce

Kol Mikaelson

Niklaus Mikaelson

Rebekah Mikaelson

Stefan Salvatore

FANTASY

Baldur’s Gate 3

Astarion Ancunín

Dammon

Gale Dekarios

Halsin

Karlach Cliffgate

Lae’zel

Raphael

Rolan

Shadowheart

Wyll Ravengard

Zevlor

REALISM

Red Dead Redemption II

Albert Mason

Arthur Morgan

Charles Smith

Dutch Van Der Linde

Flaco Hernández

Javier Escuella

John Marston

Kieran Duffy

Sadie Adler

Call of Duty

John Price

John “Soap” MacTavish

Kyle “Gaz” Garrick

Simon “Ghost” Riley

Grand Theft Auto

Franklin Clinton

Michael De Santa

Trevor Philips

Outer Banks

Pope Heyward

Rafe Cameron

Sarah Cameron

Topper Thornton

W.I.D.D

Notes :: There may be some things on these lists that are debatable. If they are something I’m willing to write under certain circumstances then it will be ITALICEZED.

WRITING

Racism

Ableism

Ageplay

Underage

Homophobia

Transphobia

Character x Character (w/o reader)

CHARACTERS

Bubba Sawyer

Freddy Krueger

Pennywise

[cheapsweets]

The unassailable Taerfleg

My response to this week’s BestiaryPosting challenge from @maniculum

For a change I focused initially on the anatomy and worked out the rest of the composition later, which is why the adult Taerfleg looks a little stiff. I also continued my trend of drawing baby animals so tiny you can barely make them out (when I was thinking about developing my own drawing style, this wasn't what I planned... 😅)

Jinhao shark fountain pen with a fine, hooded nib, with Monteverde Raven Noir ink, over initial pencil sketch.

As ever, reasoning under the cut…

The Taerfleg is covered in prickles. It bristles, when it is enclosed in its prickles and is protected by them on all sides against attack.

Okay, so first question, what are prickles? The most defined explanation refers to plants, where technically speaking, a 'prickle' is a spiny process, but whereas thorns are modified branches/stems, and spines are leaves or parts of leaves, a 'prickle' is an outgrowth of the epidermis or skin or the plant (so, technicaly, roses have prickles, not thorns... learned a thing today!).

While I don't imagine that the authors of the bestiary (or if we're being honest, the translators) are going to be particularly fussy in terms of these exacting biological definitions, it gives me a place to start - the spiky bits of this animal are related to its skin rather than say, spiky bones or osteoderms.

For as soon as it senses anything, it first bristles then, rolling itself into a ball, regains its courage behind its armour.

Okay, armour, and curling up into balls... What kind of (land) animals have armour? Tortoises and crocodiles do, but aren't so roly poly unfortunately. Armadillos, pangolins, and all sorts of lovely bugs like isopods and pill millipedes definitely fit the bill. We just need to work out what kind of creature this is though, since its never specified whether the Taerfleg is a beast, a serpent, or something else...

Given the above note that 'prickles' are processes of the skin, rather than bone, we can eliminate crocodilians and turtles, as well as things like armadillos, which leaves us with squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes), potentially with prickly scales. I mean, I suppose these prickles could be modified hairs on a mammal, but surely the author of the entry would be more specific if that was the case, right? 😏

Plus given I interpreted the previous entry very conventionally (well, as conventional as tiny subterranian birbs can be) it's nice to stretch and draw something a little different...

The Taerfleg has a certain kind of foresight: as it tears off a grape, it rolls backwards on it and so delivers it to its young. It is also called [redacted]. This animal, thinking ahead, protects itself with twin ventilation ducts, so that when it thinks that the north wind is about to blow, it blocks the northern one, and when it knows that the south wind is giving warning of mist in the air, it goes to the northern passage to avoid the vapours blown from the opposite direction, which will do it harm.

One of the things that prompted a lot of the other design decisions was trying to work out exactly how it removes the grapes from its spines when it delivers them! I wondered about long necks (for instance, some tortoises) or tails, but ended up giving it reasonably long limbs and a bit of flex. I wasn't sure how well the grapes would survive being transported this way, so they're looking a little shrivelled...

Also, have some baby Taerflegs, one of which is munching down on a grape, the other is practicing curling into a ball, since I had to put that in the picture somewhere!).

I also read this as it digging burrows, based on the ventilation ducts. I didn't want to just duplicate what I'd drawn last week (with the cross section of the burrow), so we have the northern ventilation shaft blocked with grass and straw (I'd considered if it might block the shaft with its body, but that didn't seem likely given that the vapours would 'do it harm', and I didn't think that a weird lizardy thing would appreciate the cold draft on its posterior...

Note from this challenge - I really need to work out how to draw the interior of caves or tunnels...

So, I've taken inspiration from a lot of different creatures here. Ironically, despite picking up a copy of Charles Knight's animal drawing at the suggestion of @silverhart-makes-art (thank you, it's rad and really interesting, though I'm still on the lookout for some of the other suggestions I received too!), not a lot of use for this particular drawing, but it will definitely be useful in future projects.

One of the main inspirations here are girdled lizards, particularly the Armadillo girdled lizard (which has the greatest scientific name ever, Ouroborus cataphractus) - a spiky lizard that curls itself into a ball. Incidentally, another member of this family is the genus Smaug.... 🐉

Initial armadillo-inspired plating was superceded by pill millipedes (as most armadillos can't make a full ball); I also used the three-banded armadillo as the basis for the anatomy, but made a lot of changes along the way, particularly after I decided to make it a reptile - tortoises were considered briefly, but mostly monitor lizards (in part at least because they get big enough that I could find some good reference photos online!).

Digging claws on the forelimbs are largely from echidnas, I wanted the spiky bits to at least partially reflect the prickles on roses, back facing so they don't get in the way when its crawling through tunnels or vinyards, and there was also a lot of inspiration from Scolosaurus in the general vibe and the head (what? Dinosaurs are cool!).

Overall, interesting challenge, learned some things, have a few new things to learn, mostly had fun :)

[hrrtshape]

hiii emma!!! its blueberry jam anon. its been a while! i have anoooother dr idea. its a little espionage-ish.

okay so me (or you lol) work as a switchboard operator, listening in on conversations (accidentally... or not). when i hear something i shouldn’t—like a plot to take down the town’s most powerful family—i suddenly become the most wanted girl in town. now, everyone either wants to bribe me , silence me, or make me their partner in crime!!!! i love action packed drs. i lack it in this reality. with love, 🫐🍞

hiii 🫐🍞 angel !!!!!!!! oh my god this is sooooooooo good. i’m actually losing my little mind over this. this is laura palmer in the red room. this is sorry wrong number meets north by northwest meets the bell jar if esther greenwood got REALLY into wiretapping.

like. you’re a switchboard operator. you eavesdrop. you hear something you shouldn’t. now you’re the town’s hottest commodity. people are bribing you with diamonds and death threats. someone leaves you a note written in lipstick on your vanity mirror. someone else breaks into your apartment and makes you a cup of coffee just to let you know they could. it’s all very noir. it’s all very she disappeared one night and the whole city whispered about her forever.

and the action.....mhm... the action. chases through rain-slick alleyways. ducking into jazz clubs and lighting cigarettes with a shaking hand. being shoved into a car by a man in a trench coat who calls you kid and tells you to keep your mouth shut if you wanna live. falling in love with someone you absolutely should not fall in love with because they may or may not have been hired to kill you.

this is a divine idea. this is cinematic. you will look sooooo good running for your life in a silk slip and a trench coat. i support this with my whole heart. write this in the stars. let me know when you shift there so i can scream and cry about it properly.

with love and a very tiny pistol in my garter, emma

[christinescupofcoffee]

a completed work — the original now it’s dark trilogy (now it’s dark, who cares wins, and be all end all)

started — September 2019 | completed: January 2020 | genre — science fiction, noir, cyberpunk posing as fanfiction | pov — 1st person perspective | status — third draft | currently — completed! | themes — poverty, death, mind control, manipulation, mad science, family dysfunction, the rise of ai/terminator-bladerunner type stuff, ecoterrorism

blurb | Joey hasn't always had it easy. Fresh off the boat from his singing duties in Anthrax, he finds a battered young woman in a storm drain. After taking her to shelter, he runs into a gentleman named Lars Ulrich, whom, as he finds out knows a thing or two about the woman in question. Thus ensues two fellows' journey through hell and back again.

excerpt | "Kill me now," is what I say as I stare out the window. The rain is my one true friend now. It's been a while since I've been able to make a good friend on top of this--I'm sure everyone knows about it, the whole thing where if someone, and by someone I mean myself, wasn't en route to a college or a university, or working a job already, they were kind of left out in the cold. Sure, there have been plenty of acquaintances, but as far as someone I could sit with and feel myself to be true with them, it's been a while. The whole twisted thing about everything that happened was that it happened so quick. It was four years ago Scott and Frank told me I could hold the microphone in my hand. Four years ago, and last year we may as well have hiked up to the North Pole and stood up a big black flag with the word "NOT!" emblazoned on it, beholding the fact we had conquered the world in the wake of Cliff's ashes. We rose up like the phoenix, and I was the man on fire.

There is absolutely nothing like standing out in the rain with all of your things taken out from the studio, slung over your shoulder, and your old band mates were the ones throwing you out there into the darkness while the gutters overflow over your head. There isn't a feeling like it.

And if anyone believes that I had had enough, know for a fact I was asked to leave. I had vowed to rid of the problem, to replace all of the booze with black coffee. I mean, Jesus, I like to have fun with this sort of thing. What's the point of doing it if I'm not going to have a little fun with it all every now and then? And it's not like I was drinking a ton so to speak--at least I wasn't doing those drug loaded pirate raids the four of them would do with Skid Row and Ratt. But I specifically recall telling Scott, verbatim, after he threatened to leave if I did nothing, that I would not have a sip of alcohol as long as I was a member of the band. And yet, for whatever reason, that promise did not suffice or click with any of them.

I think the sound of my phone ringing this morning and waking me up will haunt me for as long as I live. I still hear Charlie's voice on the other end, telling me it was official. They had made the decision behind closed doors and I had been thrown out on my ass as of that morning, but he never elaborated why.

The next thing I remember was asking him why and the sound of the other end hanging up.

note: this is the one. This is the fic I come back to quite often, mainly because it was such a watershed moment for me. It made me realize that I have the weirdest ability to tell a story from a guy’s point of view (which in turn made me realize that my concept of gender is way more permeable and fluid than I had realized before). It was the last thing I wrote before the pandemic hit. I made inktober art for it, which Joey himself noticed on instagram and then talked about it on Jamey Jasta’s podcast on my birthday.

When I go back and read it, it’s astounding how important it is for me, personally and as a writer. It’s arguably my magnum opus.

And you’re not misreading that, either, I literally wrote the whole three books in four months.

[illarian-rambling]

Who is your favourite member of MG cast that isn't the main character?

That's gotta be Detective Ceyrel Gavorn, of course, the hunter of Unity's most crime-ridden streets 💪

Ceyrel is Ivander's detective partner. She does most of his fieldwork for him in exchange for him doing her paperwork. It's a system that suits them, given his chronic pain and her dyslexia. Like many members of the Bureau of Arcane Investigation, she's somewhat corrupt, frequently taking bribes to look the other way on minor crimes, but if there's a chance of people getting hurt, she's one of the most steadfast members of the BAI there is. Unlike Ivander, she really does maintain a sense of justice and desire to help people. Even when she's corrupt, it mostly involves letting the urchin kid who stole a loaf of bread off with a warning.

On a more personal note, Ceyrel is a hobgoblin, but her stepfather is a dwarf, so she grew up in a largely dwarven environment. She speaks Kevete fluently and attends a dwarven church when she can be bothered. For a long time, she's been dodging her clan's attempt at arranging a marriage for her, though their attempts are never very serious, so it's more of a game for her. She has five sisters, one of which is a fullblooded hobgoblin, two are dwarves, and two are mixed lineage. Both of her parents work in the North Unity University music department, and indeed, the whole Beganhild clan is rather musical. Ceyrel would never let anyone at the BAI know, but she frequently sings with her father while one of her cousins plays the piano. Her family is generally supportive of her criminal investigation career, though they are very nosy about her 'weird' cases.

Ceyrel would consider Ivander to be her best friend. She knows she's his only friend. He's too prickly to call her anything more than a coworker, but she knows how he really feels. They were initially drawn together by a love of office gossip and they stayed close for nearly a decade due to their matching evil senses of humor. Ceyrel does her best to help Ivander out. She knows he struggles with a curse, though she doesn't know the details, and she knows his family was terribly abusive to him as a child, hence why he's no-contact. Whenever he has bad curse days, she never asks any questions, but she will bring takeout to his place and keep him company to distract from the pain. Really, she's fantastic friend to him, in ways he hardly even realizes. She worries about him often.

Really, she deserves her own noir detective novel. Other than her, special mention goes to Ezjara Moon-stalker, my freak of a knowledge spirit. We love a creepy, lovable seal monster.

Thanks for the ask!

[ask-knowledgekeepers]

"Wisteria...?" Noir called out to the mismagius seeing the face as he gulped "You are wisteria correct ?" he asked almost carefully the feeler reaching out to the ghost type giving soft caress on cheek "What happened...?" he was stunned to see the emotionless pokemon before shaking his head pulling Ivy in a gentle hug "Sorry, I didnt mean to ask so bluntly... I feel like you need this..." he chuckled softly "Im here for you, you know ?"

Ivy seemed to calm down at the Sylveon's reassuring words, she just nervously looked away and muttered a faint "I'm sorry."

She cringed as his ribbon touched her cheek, for some odd reason, the ghost was expecting something worse. Though she wasn't sure why. From what she could recall about him, Noir wasn't a cruel or mean Pokemon. Though she couldn't be sure, her memories of them were a bit hazy.

Ivy instantly backed away at the question, she looked like she was about to say something but quickly went silent. Her gaze fell to the floor as she refused to answer. Noir didn't seem to push the matter either much to her relief. However, She didn't have time to react before Noir pulled her into a loving but firm hug.

She quietly sniffled as tears began streaming down her face, it'd been so long since she cried. Years even, now that she was she couldn't seem to stop herself. As all the memories began to flood back Ivy cuddled into Noir's hug, despite the sudden emotional pain she was hit with, she was glad someone she knew from the past was here to at least soothe it.

→ Ivy will now respond "normally" to those who know her as Wisteria. → Noir has been added to her [Family] on the Relationships Page. → Ivy is unavailable for asks until further notice.

- Mod note below -

For those who do not know who Noir is, Noir is one of the Pokemon who adopted Wisteria (Now Ivy) on @ask-north. She considers them to be one of her parents. Wisteria cared a lot for Noir, her one wish was for him to not forget her.

If you would like to see their interactions here is a list:

Original Noir and Wisteria Interaction

Original + Noir's Reply

Reply 2

Noirs Reply 2

If you enjoyed this post even slightly you have Sleepy to thank for that! They're the one that originally came up with the interaction. They were even kind enough to doodle it out then send me this ask, I just adapted it into my own style and added my own flare to it.

This post has been in the works since January of this year, I had to redraw this twice due to being unhappy with my style and the flow. I'm very pleased to finally feel confident enough to post it.

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I'm also happy to say this will be the last Ivy-related ask I will be answering (for now). For those sick of Ivy, I'm sure you're very glad to hear that. I love her a lot, and I'm very annoying about it. I understand. I know you've all stuck with me this long and I'm very thankful for that, especially with my ups and downs of returning only to disappear into the void again.

I did have a majority of the "Pretender" arc drawn and sketched and ready to go but I scrapped it due to a random sudden hate for how my art style looked. I unfortunately still have a lot of confidence issues with my art that I'm trying to work through. I just want y'all to know all of your love for my art and story really helped me gain it back. Knowing people like my content brings me so much joy, I hope I can continue to share the world and story I've built with everyone here.

And also, I assure you there are only Klaus-centered posts from here on. Well... until after a certain event happens that will bring the Pretender act to a close. Then I have to drag Ivy back in, Sorry not sorry! She doesn't sit in the Main character's box for nothing. /lh You'll get to meet her granddaughter very soon along with a little gremlin cat. 🤭

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MOVIES I WATCHED THIS WEEK #201:

The best films of the week: 'A taxi driver', 'Sudden fear', 'Sharper', 'The eloquent peasant', 'Rocks in my pockets', 'If anything happens I love you', 'Windy day', 'Late autumn', 'The big wait'.

2 BY KOREAN DIRECTOR JANG HOON, BOTH WITH STAR SONG KANG-HO:

🍿 A TAXI DRIVER (2017), my first by director Jang Hoon, is one the five best Korean films I've ever seen. What style! What a balance of emotional complexity, technical proficiency and political subtext! It's based on true events which happened during a perilous time in South Korean history. Song Kang-ho (The father in 'Paradise') is a street-smart taxi driver, who takes a German journalist into Gwangju and witnesses with him the student uprising and massacre that occurred there after the 1980 Coup d'état. Maybe even better than Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver'?... 10/10.

🍿 Jang Hoon directed only 4 features, and all were huge money makers in Korea. But his 2010 SECRET REUNION disappointed me greatly. It was just a standard police action film revolving around a North Korean sleeper cell of trained assassins, and it was unremarkable. 2/10.

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"Who are you? Another relative? You have broken 18 dicks! I'll kill you, all gorillas, all policemen and all the Dutch"

THE SUNDAY WOMAN is an unusual Italian comedy about a murder investigation. An eccentric architect is bashed on the head with a large stone phallus, and the clueless police force is scrambling to solve the high-society death.

It's definitely worth watching for the star power of "Commissioner" Marcello Mastroianni (with his sexy baritone voice), Jean-Louis Trintignant as a secret gay patrician and Jacqueline Bisset as the radiant, bored wife of a wealthy businessman. Also for the unmistakable score by Ennio Morricone's.

The director's ambiguous style makes the confusing 'Chinatown'-like plot even more convoluted. It's also wonderful to see the streets of Turin as they were in 1975. 7/10.

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2 OF DIRECTOR DAVID MILLER'S (??) BEST FILMS:

🍿 How come I never even heard of the stylish, smashing Noir thriller SUDDEN FEAR from 1952?? Milf'ish Joan Crawford is a rich and successful San Francisco playwright, who falls for younger actor Jack Palance, while he schemes to murder her for her inheritance. He looks here like one of the greatest film villains, with his chiseled jaw and piercing eyes, and his side-lover Gloria Grahame is just gorgeous. (Interesting side note: Crawford mentions that there were 2,174,000,000 people in the world at that time. Mmmm...) 9/10.

🍿 "If it didn't take men to make babies, I wouldn't have anything to do with any of you..."

LONELY ARE THE BRAVE is a 1962 new revisionist Western with Kirk Douglas as the "last" old-fashioned cowboy, a rugged individual and independently free. He's a 'Rebel without a cause', a freewheelin' ranch hand who refuses to join the contemporary society of mortgages and driving licenses. Unfortunately, he's now roaming a modern New Mexico which is filled with highways, Jeeps and helicopters. It's obvious that it's going to end up badly. Still, I did not expect the symbolism of his horse getting hit in a rainstorm by a long-hauling truck carrying toilets. (and chauffeured by Archie Bunker!). With young wife-of-a friend Gena Rowlands.

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HEAVY TRIP, (2018), a sweet comedy from Finland about 'Impaled Rektum', a Heavy Metal band from a small rural town which after 12 years of practicing, still have never played a live gig. I have absolutely zero interest in "symphonic post-apocalyptic reindeer-grinding Christ-abusing extreme war pagan fenno-scandian metal" or any other kind, but this was highly entertaining. Its mood reminded me of "Miss little sunshine", even though story wise the two had no connection whatsoever. 7/10.

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THE GETAWAY, Sam Peckinpah's suspenseful action-thriller of a Texas bank heist and Lovers on the run. Starring real-life, super-cool married couple Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw. Also co-starring both "Virgil Sollozzo" and "Al Nery" (which makes sense as this too was filmed in 1972), as well as Silm Pickens.

Also with Quincy Jones' distinct jazzy score, highlighted by Toots Thielemans' mournful harmonica sound. In Peckinpah's usual misogynistic manner, there are multiple incidents of guys slapping women around, including the otherwise-loving McQueen. Also, the famous bad guy who kidnap a meek husband and his naughty wife, and then humiliates him by sleeping with the wife in front of him. I've seen a similar story multiple other times, but can't remember where. Re-watch♻️. 8/10.

RIP, Quincy Jones!

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THE ELOQUENT PEASANT (1969) is the most unusual film I saw this week. It's an Egyptian morality tale based on a 4,000 year old story from the 'Middle Kingdom' of Egypt. A poor peasant is robbed by a noble man of all his possessions, and he's seeking justice from a Pharaoh, by applying flowery arguments to make his case. His language skills are so appreciated by the ruler, that he delays his verdict, just so he can hear him speak longer. It's composed in the most beautiful Technicolor brushes, and has a striking, radiant look. It was restored and preserved by Martin Scorsese's 'World Cinema Foundation' (together with the director's 'The Night of Counting the Years' which is next on my list).

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ANYTHING FOR HER (2008) is a French thriller by a first time director. Diane Kruger and her husband are an ordinary couple with a kid, when she is suddenly arrested for a murder she didn't commit, but is wrongly convicted for it and is sentenced to 20 years in prison. The first two acts are okay, but unremarkable. The last suspenseful 30 minutes are dynamite!

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FILMS WITH 100% SCORE ON ROTTEN TOMATOES X 2:

🍿 ROCKS IN MY POCKETS (2014), "A funny film about depression", is the most amazing adult animation feature from Latvia I've ever seen! I simply cannot understand how come there are original and amazing masterpieces like this out in the world which are completely off the radar. For. ex., it was submitted by Latvia as their official entry for the 87th Academy Award, but was not even nominated.

The trailer is all one needs to see before deciding if the movie is right for them. 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes. 10/10! [*Female Director*]

🍿 Re-watch ♻️: IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU won the Oscars in 2020. A married couple is wordlessly grieving the death of their 12 year old daughter [in a school shooting]. Inspired by (and reminiscent of) the Dutch 'Father and daughter' which also won the Oscars (in 2000). 💯 score on Rotten Tomatoes. It's Devastatingly Sad.

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Re-watch of the clever thriller SHARPER. An excellent long-com game, equal to the best of the 'Grifters' genre (in spite of the final, improbable twist). With an exceptional score that includes both Talking Heads and Cole Porter at the right moments. 9/10. ♻️.

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PUT OUR MÄRTA FIRST OR AS LUCK WILL HAVE IT is a traditional Swedish comedy from 1945. I watched it only because I was led to believe that it was some "obscure science-fiction comedy about drag queens", but it wasn't. It's obscure all right. But the sci-fi element was limited to a 2006 opening scene, with an old man telling his granddaughter the story about a hero from 1945, and the rest of the movie is just a flashback. The exact cross dressing plot was later used better on 'Some like it hot': 2 unemployed musicians can only get a job with a traveling women's band, so one of them has to dress up as a woman. [it even has some important scenes on a train, just like Wilder's!]. Unsurprisingly it morphs into a straight-up feminist message film, a-la-Tootsie, with a call for equal rights and free love. But it is told in a very dated, low-brow, broad comedic style. The director, Hasse Ekman, was apparently the most acclaimed Swedish director after Sjöström and before Bergman. 2/10.

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WHO KILLED JAZZ (Documentary, 2021) is a skillfully-made and impressionistic analysis of the economics of the live jazz music scene. The genre as a whole still flourishes, but the musicians themselves cannot make a living in it. Recommended.

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ITALIAN POETIC REALIST VITTORIO DE SETA IN 1955 X 3:

🍿 ISLANDS OF FIRE, a wordless natural documentation of fishermen and villagers on the island of Stromboli during a volcanic eruption in 1954. He did 10 ethnographic shorts like this during this time.

🍿 THE AGE OF SWORDFISH, another awesome story of Sicilian fishermen spear-fishing a large swordfish, a custom that disappeared around that time. 8/10.

🍿 PEASANTS OF THE SEA is even more brutal; A fleet of boats capture a large school of Tuna, and kill them all in an orgy of blood and guts. CW. 9/10. De Seta was really talented.

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“Ouch-e-megouch!"

MAGIC TOWN (1947) was the last movie I anxiously watched the night before the election, while being depressed by opposing polls predicting the winner. It was recommended because city slicker James Stewart played a public opinion pollster (for time on film) who moved into Small Town USA, believing that there he can find a perfect reflection of the country as a whole. But this Frank Capra-lite was terrible all around, with a lame-ass romance, and reactionary politics, including the outlandish proposition in one of the polls that "79% favor a woman for president" [Screenshot Above]. Ridiculous! 1/10.

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A BUNCH OF SHORTS:

🍿 BORED ON EDUCATION (1936), my first 'Our gang' episode, and the only one (Out of 220) to win an Oscar. The series was notable for featuring black & white children acting as equals during the Jim Crow era. I didn't realize that the series lasted for 22 years, and employed many sets of kids replacing others who grew out of their roles.

🍿 WINDY DAY (1968) was an adorable animation about two cute little sisters who chatter over each other's as they play and playact, in the cutest, most natural voices. 9/10.

🍿 GOD OF LOVE won the Oscars in 2010. It's a quirky independent comedy in a French New Wave style. A goofy-looking, young Brooklynite lounge singer receives an anonymous box of 'Love Darts' and becomes a local Cupid. Cute. 7/10.

🍿 LATE AFTERNOON (2017) a tender Oscar-nominated Irish story about an old woman who doesn't remember much of anything anymore. 10/10. [*Female Director*]

🍿 In LUCKY FISH (2022), two Asian-American girls exchange glances across the tables at a Chinese restaurant, and then meet by the magical gold fish tank to kiss. Pretty adolescent and not very deep. [*Female Director*]

🍿 PORTRAIT OF GOD (2022), a short horror story about a religious girl who prepares a presentation about a painting of God. Everything I don't like about the Horror genre is here: The eerie soundtrack, the mystical questions that remain unanswerable, the scary jump-cuts, the implied danger, the ambiguous undertone of evil. It's all so unnecessary. 1/10.

🍿 THE BIG WAIT (2023) is a lovely Australian documentary about a couple who lives alone in the middle of nowhere, and maintains a 6-cabin B&B in pristine condition, for visitors who hardly ever come there. 8/10.

🍿 MNEMONADE, a brand-new A.I.-generated short about the Sands of Time and an old woman with dementia. It's not quiet yet there, but as I said a year ago here, I'm sure that within a year, two max, we'll start seeing 'Good' A.I. features, and that in 2025, I'll be viewing some of them. (Via).

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(ALL MY FILM REVIEWS - HERE).

[north-noire]

Hello everyone, just a little update while I complete my ArtFight entries + write my fic drafts, since I know there's still people trying to read my fic or still haven't read my fic.

I set my Hidden Hands AU fic to view-only to registered users for now because there's apparently a bot scraping fics off the site (rivd dot net - thankfully and miraculously I'm not on there, but plenty of fic authors are) and I wanna make sure it never happens to my fics at all, or to anyone else who's also an AO3 author themselves.

For AO3 writers, please check this twitter thread when you can, and hope you don't find yourself in it, because it requires you to give out your REAL NAME and real life information and that's NOT GOOD. Please don't give out your information to these people/the site.

Here's what to do if you find your works/username the site instead: thread of what to do

It's disappointing to hear that these kinds of people think they can just scrape off works out of complete passion or works made for fun by authors, where we're never paid or compensated for any of it, but they think they can just steal and feed it into some stupid A/I slop because they think they could just steal our hard work and make some profit off of it, and treating it like no big deal all "in the name of the future".

It's horrible, and I hope there's going to be laws and restrictions around not just this practice in general, but to all kinds of protection around artists' works as a whole. We artists and creatives really don't deserve to be treated like this.

[les-degustations-ugo]

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Description of the pinned domain in the comments

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🇬🇧Hello corkscrew lovers.

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🍷AOP Bordeaux red Château Crésus 2021

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🍇100% Merlot

Aged in vats and wood

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👁️A deep garnet color

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👃A nose with notes of red and black fruits

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💋A deliciously juicy Bordeaux, with fruity flavors and a beautiful elegance. Its soft and round tannins caress the palate. The aromas of morello cherry, wild strawberry, raspberry jam and plums intermingle harmoniously. The subtle blend between barrel and vat is achieved with perfect mastery. Its length in the mouth is remarkable, leaving an exquisite finish with notes of almonds and roasted hazelnuts. This vintage truly enchanted me.

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🧆Tasted on duck breasts

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🇫🇷Hello les amoureux du tire-bouchon.

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🍷AOP Bordeaux rouge Château Crésus 2021

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🍇100% Merlot

Élevage en cuve et bois

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👁️Une robe de couleur grenat soutenu

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👃Un nez sur des notes de fruits rouges et noirs

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💋Un Bordeaux délicieusement juteux, aux saveurs fruitées et avec une belle élégance. Ses tanins doux et ronds caressent le palais. Les arômes de griotte, de fraise des bois, de confiture de framboise et de prunes s'entremêlent harmonieusement. L'assemblage subtil entre fût et cuve est réalisé avec une maîtrise parfaite. Sa longueur en bouche est remarquable, laissant une finale exquise aux notes d'amandes et de noisettes torréfiées. Ce millésime m'a véritablement enchanté.

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🧆Dégusté sur des magrets de canard

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🥘Quelques accords mets et vin🥘 :Rognons de veau au Madère, Brochettes de dinde au barbecue, Canette rôtie au four,...

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To the north-east of the village of Sainte-Terre, adjoining the Saint-Emilion plain, the CRESUS vineyard is rooted in gravelly-sandy soil, of which only the best plots were kept when it was acquired in 2010. In particular, all the rows of Cabernet-Sauvignon were uprooted in favour of Merlot, a new plantation of which was added in 2015 to plots that were on average 45 years old.

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🇫🇷Description du Domaine 🇫🇷

Au nord-est du village de Sainte-Terre, jouxtant la plaine de Saint-Emilion, c’est dans un sol gravelo-sableux qu’est enraciné le vignoble CRESUS dont seules les meilleures parcelles ont été conservées lors de l’acquisition en 2010. En particulier, tous les rangs de Cabernet-sauvignon ont été arrachés au profit du Merlot dont une nouvelle plantation est venue compléter en 2015 des parcelles âgées en moyenne de 45 ans.

[filmnoirfoundation]

ASK EDDIE returns Thursday, June 22, 7:00 PM PT to our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/filmnoirfoundation/live

FNF prez Eddie Muller responds to film noir fan questions fielded by the Foundation's Director of Communications Anne Hockens In this episode, we discuss LGBTQ+ characters in noir, the best noir cinematographers, “Executive Action”, author John D. MacDonald, circumventing the Hays Code, and more. Plus, we settle a debate regarding the portrayal of women in noir for a viewer. We wind up with a discussion of our fantasy casting for noir brothers and noir sisters. Stay tuned to the end for a special furry guest star.

Want your question answered in a future episode? We solicit questions from our email subscribers in our monthly newsletters. Sign up for free at https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/signup.html

Everyone who signs up on our email list and contributes $20 or more to the Film Noir Foundation receives the digital version of NOIR CITY Magazine for a year. Donate here: https://www.filmnoirfoundation.org/contribute.html

Can’t join us on Thursday? No problem! A recording will be up on our YouTube channel, @NoirCity, on Friday, April 7: https://www.youtube.com/user/NoirCitySF

Note: Eddie will not be able to answer questions posted during the livestream nor ones left on our social media accounts

This week’s questions:

1.       I’d enjoy hearing from both of you about LGBTQ+ characters in Noir.

Marjorie (from the poor part of Connecticut)

2.       Are there any Film Noir Foundation restorations in the Flicker Alley pipeline this year?

Michael, Post Falls, Idaho

3.       Have you ever considered The Orpheum Theater in Phoenix, Arizona for a NOIR CITY showing? Also, are there any great film noirs from the golden age that are not readily available?

Vince from Arizona

4.       In a recent ASK EDDIE, you said that "The 13th Letter” is unavailable for showings because of rights issues, Are there any other noirs that similarly cannot be shown because of rights issues?  

Bill Miller, Chicago

5.       Who do you consider the best cinematographer of the classic film era?

Harry, West Chester, PA

6.       I recently engaged in a debate with someone about the concept of film. I wanted to get your perspective. The other person posits that the femme fatale trope was a sexist derivative of men's postwar angst of women taking their jobs and workplace. I argued that men and women in noir are oftentimes equally culpable, equally shrewd and equally guilty in their indiscretions. What are your thoughts on these arguments?

Andrew, Clayton, North Carolina

7.       TCM showed “Not As A Stranger” and I thoroughly enjoyed it. IMDB says that movie is a Film Noir.  I can’t see it. What do you think?

Stephen, Allen, Texas

8.       I recently saw the Italian neorealist film “Bitter Rice”, which has many film noir characteristics. Can you recommend other neorealist films that might also be regarded as film noir?

Ron

9.       It's hard to think of a movie more detested, shunned and now ignored than "Executive Action," a 1973 political drama, directed by David Miller and written by Dalton Trumbo, that blames the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on a right-wing capitalist conspiracy. I'd welcome any comments you have about "Executive Action."

Paul from "Fargo" land

10.   I recently watched “Journey into Light” (1951) starring Sterling Hayden and found it surprisingly emotionally moving.  Are there any film noir movies that you find especially moving? Also, do you consider this movie a "religious noir"?

Dan

11.   One great American crime writer you've never mentioned is John D. Macdonald, the creator of Travis McGee. Macdonald considered Victor Nunez's 1984 adaptation of his novel “A Flash of Green” to be the best film version of his work. What do the two of you think of Macdonald's work? And have either of you ever seen “A Flash of Green”?

Doug, Silver Spring, MD

12.   One of the many pleasures of viewing classic films noir is spotting the various ways in which the filmmakers circumvent the Hays Code and express graphic violence, et cetera, despite the limitations forced upon them, with clever filmmaking techniques. Can you think of any other good examples of this sort of Hays Code circumvention, in which a film is able to express graphic content without explicitly showing it?

Sam from Iowa

13.   Where is it that you tape introductions for NOIR ALLEY?  Are you given a blooper reel each year?  Have you ever finished it in one single take.  Do you have a favorite hotel you stay at when in L.A. or do you not stay at same place each visit?  

Alan, San Anselmo, CA.

14.   I came across an excellent book called “San Francisco Noir” which shows real locations from SF movies and proves interesting anecdotes about the locations and the films themselves. At the end of the book is a description of the Danger and Despair Knitting Circle, which sounds like an elite private showing of various noirs.  Does this still exist, and do you have stories about this group?

Phil from Boston

15.   My question addresses some fantasy casting as well as historic casting.  Who would both of you cast as Noir Brothers and Noir Sisters. What would be the best combustible pairs?

William from Lafayette

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Fables: The Ultimate Catalogue! (A)

Here it is! A complete list of all the fairytale, nursery rhyme, mythical and literary references in Fables, both the main comic book series and its various spin-offs! This “catalogue” was created by me looking throughout the series and collected editions, adding to my personal knowledge quick Internet researches, and completing it all with the Fables Encyclopedia (which despite its official status has several things wrong in it). I didn’t get absolutely everything - some references I did not get, but I will keep a separate post for them. Enjoy!

SPOILERS AHEAD, SPOILERS AHEAD!

This post will cover the issues of Fables, the main series, 1 to 59 (from “Legends in Exile” to “Burning Questions”) + A Wolf in the Fold story + The Last Castle one-shot + 1001 Nights of Snowfall 

Note that I might have missed a few references, which I have placed in my series of posts “Searching for the reference” - if I ever find additional things, I will update this post.

The main characters

# Snow-White: The princess from “Little Snow-White” by the brothers Grimm, but also the sister of Rose-Red, from “Snow-White and Rose-Red” by the same brothers. She is the “civilized child”, “good sister”, “refined princess”, “order” to Rose-Red’s “wild child”, “disobedient sister”, “crude peasant”, “chaos”. 

# Rose-Red: The character from the brothers Grimm fairytale “Snow-White and Rose-Red”. She is Snow-White’s counterpart in many way. She is the peasant girl to her sister’s princess, she is the wild child to her sister’s obedient/civilized child, she is the ruler of the Farm and its animalistic realms where Snow-White governs Fabletown and the human Fables. 

# Bigby Wolf: The Big Bad Wolf. An “archetypal” character representing the “Western myth of the wolf as a voracious killer, man-eating, cunning, terrifying beast” - even tough real-life wolves are actually shy and do not attack men in normal circumstances He was the wolf from “Little Red Riding Hood” and from “The Three Little Pigs”. His original fairytale incarnation, as the giant, all-devouring wolf-son of the North Wind, was revealed by Willingham to have been inspired by the Fenris Wolf of Norse mythology (Willingham wanted his depictions of fairytales to have roots in ancient myths, the same way the “oldest Sleeping Beauty is Brunhilde’s circle of fire”. His human persona in today’s Fabletown is inspired by a bunch of detective and spy characters - most notably by the detectives of the “film noir” genre, though he has a disheveled Columbo-like appearance, coupled with a gruffness and inherent violence typical of a “wolf” like character: he has been described by people as “Dirty Harry meets Wolverine meets Humphrey Bogart’s detective roles”. His position as the love interest to the main female protagonist/Snow White-related woman is also clearly inspired by the character of “Wolf”, from “The 10th Kingdom”.

During his adventures in World War II he happened to become Fables’ equivalent of “The Wolf-Man” from the Universal Horror movies (he even lived through “Frankenstein meets the Wolf-Man” as he had to fight the creature of Frankenstein - Willingham confessed being a big fan of the Universal classics). In fact, we know he was the main source of the werewolf myth in our world (or maybe the reverse, it is unclear with Fables), since he is a shapeshifter able to turn into a giant wolf, a human being, or an in-between, he can only be killed by silver, and he had a friendship and alliance with Count Dracula (see below). We also learn from his backstory in “1001 Nights of Snowfall” that he used to be a twisted version of the “ugly little duckling” of his family, the runt of the litter mocked by his brothers, then turned into the biggest, baddest, most powerful of magical wolves.

# Boy Blue: Snow-White’s assistant comes from the nursery rhyme “Little Boy Blue”. On a play of him being tied to the color blue and playing the trumpet, he is also a talented musician of blues music. Also an expert in jazz, his favorite song is “Blue Skies”, and he apparently will always refuse to play “Tijuana Taxi”. When describing his tragic love story with Little Red Riding Hood, he calls it a parody of an “insipid O. Henry tale”. His adventures in the Homelands, with a mask on his face, the Witching Cloak and the Vorpal Blade, turned him into a legendary figure mixing various influences - his mask, cape and sword evokes the character of Zorro, he calls himself at one point the “Blue Avenger” (which seems to be a comic book nod, as Boy Blue is seen to be a big fan of comics), and he is called by many the “Black Knight” which, on top of being a reference to the archetype of the “Black Knight/Dark Knight” in typical Arthurian tales, might be a reference to Batman aka the “Dark Knight”, another dark super-hero with a half-mask and cloak that fights in the shadows of the night. Rose Red later describes this new persona of his as “the swashbuckler supreme”, “better than Errol Flynn” (the actor who played the most famous cinematic version of Robin Hood). 

# Jack: Of his full title “Jack of all Tales” (a pun on “Jack of all trades”). Jack is ALL the Jack of fairytales, or almost all of them. He starts out as the Jack from the English Jack tales (Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack the Giant Killer, Jack o’ Lantern) but he is also promptly revealed to be the Jack from nursery rhymes (Jack be nimble, Little Jack Horner, Jack and Jill). He is also the “Appalachian Jack”, or the “Mountain Jack of American folklore” - the Jack of those folktales carried from Europe over to the Appalachian mountains (the issue “Bag O’Bones” is a retelling of the Appalachian story “Soldier Jack” or “The Man who Caught Death in a Bag”). AND he is tied to the “Jacks” of card-games, aka the four Knaves, that he can summon in his hand during any card game (he even sings the gambling song “Jack O’Diamonds”). The Fables Encyclopedia notes that the oldest Jack tale would be “Jack and his Stepdame”, and mentions how Jack is the English version of the stock-character of fairytale known as Ivan un Russia, Hans in Germany and Juan in Spanish-speaking American countries. Willingham also mentions in the Encyclopedia that “Jack who jumped over a candlestick” is another one of the nursery rhymes part of the character. 

Jack is one of the tricksters of the Fables world - though he represents the “dark gray” kind of trickster. He is a chronical liar and thief, always acting out of selfishness and base desires (greed and lust), constantly throwing himself into “get-rich-quick” plans and not truly caring about anyone else but himself. This anti-hero is also constantly stuck into a cycle of failures and successes: while by essence he has luck on his side, as he is the very embodiment of the “designated hero” or the “non-heroic protagonist”, chance alway provides him the opportunities to fulfill his dreams and to escape his ordeals, his character however also means that every time he puts together a succesful scam or gets where he wants, he will lose everything and be forced to begin everything from scratch again. The Fables Encyclopedia does point out that this isn’t part of the traditional Jack character, who is usually an “unlikely hero”, the simpleton or the weakest of three brothers, who, with courage and resourcefulness (and luck) overcomes obstacles. But Willingham explained he wanted a “trickster without the charm, a bad boy who never learns despite his frequent comeuppance”. The only Jacks that aren’t him are Jack Sprat (from the nursery rhyme) and Jack Ketch (the executioner).

# The Black Forest Witch, or Frau Totenkinder: She is introduced as the witch from “Hansel and Gretel”, who survived being burned in her own oven, but she is revealed by “The March of the Wooden Soldiers” to have been in truth much more than that. She is an “archetypal” character who was the anonymous, unnamed or barely-mentioned witch of numerous other fairytales - and she even was involved in several stories where she did not appear as a character, since her desire was to keep herself hidden from the world. Her two titles are mere aliases: “The Black Forest Witch” refers to the deep, dark forest she lived in, the Black Forest of actual Germany, and the type of cake “Black Forest” all at once. Frau Totenkinder is a German name meaning “Miss Child-Killer”, formed of “Toten”, to kill, and “kinder”, “children”. In general, I also suspect she was influenced by the character of the Witch from “Into the Woods” (notably for reasons we will see in later parts of the series). 

We get her full backstory in “The Witch’s Tale” (1001 Nights of Snowfall) and we learn she has been  the witch from Rapunzel (though this version of Rapunzel is quite different from the one we know) and the witch who cursed the Frog Prince and the Beast into their monstrous shapes (it was a hobby of her to turn handsome, rich noblemen into various animals under the pretense of “helping” them finding their “true love”). She also participated in the creation of famous stories/characters, though she never appeared in them: she blessed Lancelot of the Lake with the ability to win any combat as long as he remained pure of heart, she created the Three Billy Goats Gruff to get rid of a bridge infested by trolls, and she gave the Pied Piper his enchanted flute to lure the children of Hamelin away as a personal revenge on the town.  She played the role of an haruspex in a city similar in design to Ancient Rome (before, she was a shaman for a Prehistoric tribe), though the prophecy she delivers through her gore-reading are biblical in nature (Joseph’s famous “seven years of plenty, seven years of famine”). And finally we learned that she caused one of the “good daughter rewarded, bad daughter punished” type of fairytale, in the likes of “Diamonds and Toads” or “Frau Holle” - except her “punishment” was killing the vain, mean sisters, cooking them into pies and feeding them to their mother. 

# Beauty and the Beast: A couple from the fairytale of the same name, first written by madame de Villeneuve, but rewritten and made famous by madame Leprince de Beaumont.

# Prince Charming: THE Prince Charming of various fairytales. He isn’t all the princes of fairytales, but he was (in chronological order), the prince-husband of Snow-White, who after his divorce with her became the prince-husband of Briar Rose, and after his divorce with her became the prince-husband of Cinderella. His womanizing ways lead him to be compared to the famous Casanova (though his modern behavior evokes mostly a nicer Don Giovani). I suspect he was inspired by the characters of the prince brothers from “Into the Woods”. He also technically makes an homage to the character of Harold Hill from “The Music Man”, as he uses some sentences from his song “Ya got trouble” during his campaign for mayor of Fabletown. 

Fabletown citizens and buildings

# King Cole: The mayor of Fabletown is Old King Cole, from the nursery rhyme of the same name.

# Bluebeard: From Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard” fairytale. 

# Trusty John: He is Faithful John, from the same name fairytale of the brothers Grimm.

# Ambrose/Flycatcher is the Frog King, from the brothers Grimm fairytale of the same name. He usually sings various folk-songs and nursery rhymes tied to his frog state, such as “Frog Went A-Courting” and “The old lady who swallowed a fly”. Due to him being not pretty-looking, not very bright or intelligent, and usually dismissed and pushed into lower positions, he is also explicitely referred to in the story as “the village’s idiot” of Fabletown. The reason Willingham chose “Ambrose” as his name is revealed in the Fables Encyclopedia to be: Willingham simply likes the name Ambrose ever since he discovered that Merlin the wizard was sometimes called “Merlin Ambrosius”. (In fact, Willingham, by choosing this name, indirectly predicted Flycatcher’s future Arthurian character-arc). 

# Grimble, the troll security guard, is one of the several bridge trolls of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”. I say several because, when Buckingham drew the “Animal Farm” arc, he kept putting in the background an orange-fur covered creature with a green hat - the Encyclopedia reveals that it was Buckingham’s reusing another of his designs of the “Bridge Troll”, taken from the “Merv Pumpkinhead” comic series, a spin-off of Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” that was the first collaboration of Willingham and Buckingham (Merv Pumpkinhead, Agent of D.R.E.A.M.). (Similarly, in Frau Totenkinder’s backstory she explains that when a bridge troll is killed, another soon takes his place, as they are an entire species). The Encyclopedia also reveals that Willingham originally envisioned Grimble as a big burly security guard, but Lan Medina (one of the artists working on Fables) rather drew him as a “Wally Cox, Barney Fife sort of fellow”, and Willingham adored the dichotomy of the glamour and true character. 

# Bufkin is one of the winged monkeys from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, by L. Frank Baum.

# Cinderella is from Charles Perrault’s “Cinderella” (and not the Grimm version since her slippers are here of glass, not gold).It is in fact the name of her shoe-shop: The Glass Slipper.

# Pinocchio is from “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi. 

# Fabletown itself (and the Fables as a whole) are named after the genre known as “fable”. The Woodland Luxury Apartment, Fabletown’s unofficial town hall, refers in name the typical fairytale forest, and in role the main castle at the center of every fairytale kingdom. In its gardens we find statues of Alice with her kitten and white rabbit (from “Alice in Wonderland” AND “Alice Through the Looking-Glass”) and a statue of Humpty Dumpty (from the nursery rhyme of the same name, plus Alice in Wonderland). (My notes mention a statue of Dorothy and Toto from The Wizard of Oz, but I am not certain of it?)

# The streets of Fabletown are named after various authors. Bullfinch Street is named after Thomas Bullfinch who wrote the famous “Bullfinch’s Mythology”. Kipling Street is named after Rudyard Kipling who created classics such as “The Jungle Book” or the “Just so Stories”. Perrault Street is named after Charles Perrault, who wrote the famous “Mother Goose’s fairy tales”. Andersen Street is named after the fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen. 

# The “I Am The Eggman” diner, on top of being a pun due to being owned by Vulco, one of the crow-brothers, is a reference to the lyrics of the song “I am the Walrus” (itself a reference to “Alice through the Looking-Glass”). The Edward Bear’s Candies shop is a reference to the teddy bear that inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh. The Branstock Tavern is a reference to the Barnstokkr tree appearing in the Völsung saga. 

# While not part of Fabletown, Gottfried’s Steak House seems to be a reference to Gottfried von Strauss, a poet famous for his work on “Tristan and Yseult”. The waitress there, Molly Greenbaum, serves as a reference to the folk song “Molly Malone”, that Prince Charming actually sings as he leaves her (I also mistook her for a nod the nursery rhyme “Miss Molly had a dolly”). 

# The Knights of Malta Hospital is a reference to the real-life Knights of Malta/Knights Hospitaller. Working in it, we find Doctor Swineheart (from the Grimms’ “The Three Army Surgeons”) and Nurse Sprat (actually Miss Sprat from the nursery rhyme “Jack Sprat”). Jack Sprat himself lives with his wife in Fabletown.

# The Forsworn Knight, the undead hanging knight haunting his rusty armor, has his identity secret up to this point - but the “Fables Encyclopedia” explained that his title was a reference to how the knights of the Arthurian mythos are only known by their nicknames: The Knight with Two Swords, the Dolorous Knight, the Green Knight, the Savage Knight... 

# Briar Rose is the character from the brothers Grimm’s version of the “Sleeping Beauty” story (though the fact she was blessed by fairies as a baby comes from Perrault’s “Sleeping Beauty”). 

# Bluebeard (and then Charming’s) goblin butler, Hobbes, has been identified by several as a nod to Thomas Hobbes. However I think it might rather simply be a reference to the “hobgoblins”.

# The Lewis Antiques shop seems to be a reference to C.S. Lewis, the inventor of Narnia (given it is “antiques”, an old wardrobe comes to mind), though it could be also a nod to Lewis Carroll. Nod’s Books has been identified as a reference to “The Book of Nods” by Jim Carroll. The Chateau d’If Fencing Academy is a reference to the real-life castle made mythical by Dumas’ “The Count of Monte-Cristo”: in fact Edmond Dantès himself runs the Academy. The Web ‘n Muffet Market is a reference to the nursery rhyme “Little Muss Muffet” (she lives now as Mrs. Web, having married the spider Mr. Web). The Yellow Brick Roadhouse is a reference to the Yellow Brick Road of Oz. 

# There are two shops seen in the comics but who’s true owners are only revealed later. One is “Ford Laundry” which is a laundromat runned by the Scottish bean nighe, Mrs. Ford (because she is “The Washer-Woman at the Ford”). The second is the Grand Green Florist shop, revealed in “A Wolf Among Us” to be the shop of Auntie Greenleaf, from Schlosser’s “Spooky New-York” anthology. 

# The 13th floor witches include (beyond Frau Totenkinder), the “Fairy Witch” or “Great Fairy Witch” (actually the witch from Andersen’s “Thumbelina”) and Mr. Grandours, the sorcerer-king from “The Wizard King” (Willingham took the translated version from Andrew Lang’s Yellow Fairy Book, though the fairytale origin is actually the knight of Mailly “Le Roi Magicien”, in his “Illustres fées” - the Illustrious Fairies of Le Chevalier de Mailly). When evoking Mr. Grandours in the Encyclopedia (which falsely refers to The Wizard King as having been invented by Lang), Willingham also said when designing his character he thought of all the various magical bears in fairy tales, good or wicked - and his human form is meant to evoke a “Leonid Brezhnev-kind of character”. 

# Thrushbeard is from “King Thrushbeard”, a fairytale of the brothers Grimm. Mark Buckingham designed him after comic book creator Alan Moore.

# Kay is a character from Andersen’s “The Snow Queen”. 

# The boy who cries wolf is from the Aesop fable of the same name (and lives on the seventh floor of the Woodland Luxury).

# Ichabod Crane is a character from Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. Willingham insists in the Fables Encyclopedia that he wanted to depict Crane as he perceived him when reading the original story, aka as “kind of an ass, of the prickly, pompously self-impressed sort”. 

# The Stone Soup restaurant is a reference to the very widespread and famous folktale “The Stone Soup”. The Andersen butcher shop is another nod to Hans Christian Andersen (here mixed with the word “Delicatessen”). The reparation team/company in charge of remaking Fabletown after the March of the Wooden Soldiers is called “N Rhyme” - aka Nursery Rhyme. 

# Gudrun is the goose that lays golden eggs - made famous by the “Jack and the beanstalk” fairytale, but finding her roots in one of Aesop’s fables “The goose that laid golden eggs”. As for her name, it is the one of the wife of the Germanic mythical hero Sigurd/Siegfried. 

# Barbara Allen, one of the victims of the rogue zephyr, is from the folk-song of the same name, “Bonny Barbara Allen”. 

# Mowgli is the main character of Kipling’ “The Jungle Book” (he is also explicitely compared in-universe to “Tarzan” (from “Tarzan of the Apes”), though Willingham in the Encyclopedia explains he prefers Mowgli over the other because he was “Tarzan before Tarzan”. 

# Rapunzel is the character from the brothers Grimm story of the same name. 

# Fair Katrinelje, Vulco’s part-time girlfriend, is from the brothers Grimm fairytale “Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie”.

The Farm residents and buildings

# The Farm plays various roles. In design it is described by Rose-Red as “Old Macdonald meets Walt Disney meets Munchkinland” - Old Macdonald had a farm being a traditional children song (later quoted to describe the Farm), the Disney reference being related to Disney Land the amusement park (the architecture of some buildings has been noted to be similar to the Neuschwanstein castle, which inspired Sleeping Beauty’s castle for Disney) , and Munchkinland being a reference to the colorful landscape of the MGM movie “The Wizard of Oz”. In terms of role it also fulfills the idea of the “farm” where pets are supposedly sent when they die and parents want to hide it to their children. In its first appearance, the “Animal Farm” arc, it plays the role of the titular “Animal Farm” from George Orwell’s book of the same name, and Goldilocks purposefully makes a gory reference to William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”, comparing the Farm to the island of the story.

# Colin, Posey and Dun are the three pigs from “The Three Little Pigs” (Posey and Dun coupling as the pigs from Orwell’s “Animal Farm”). They are later replaced by three giant brothers turned into pigs, Johnny, Donny and Lonny. The giant brothers notably recite the iconic lines “Fee fi fo fum [...] I’ll grind his bones to make my bread!”, coming from “Jack and the Beanstalk”.

# The Farm hosts the Rhinoceros from “How the Rhinoceros got his skin” (Kipling’s “Just So Stories”), the Three Billy Goats Gruff (from the Norwegian fairytale of the same name), Henny Penny (from “Chicken Little/Henny Penny”), the Owl and the Pussycat (from the poem of the same name), the Hare and the Tortoise (from the Aesop fable of the same name), several flying monkeys (from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”), a red-cap (from English-Scottish folklore), and Puss in Boots (from Perrault’s fairytale of the same name).

# The buildings of the Farm include a pumpkin-house similar to the one of Jack Pumpkinhead in the “Oz” books ; mushroom-houses taken straight out of the “Smurfs” comic books and cartoons; the shoe-house of the “Old Woman who lived in a Shoe”, as well as Baba-Yaga’s chicken-legged house.

# Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Papa Bear, Mama Bear and Boo Bear) are from the fairytale of the same name.

# Weyland Smith, the original caretaker of the Farm before Rose-Red, is a character from Germanic legends, Anglo-Saxon folklore and Nordic sagas, present “from the Poetic Edda to Beowulf” to take back the words of the Encyclopedia.

# The B’rer Fables are animal fables taken out of Afro-American folktales (most famous through the “Uncle Remus” books): we have B’rer Rabbit, B’rer Bear, B’rer Gator. In “Sons of the Empire” we also find out B’rer Wolf is here. 

# The “Jungle Fables” or “Kipling Fables” are characters of Kipling’s The Jungle Book: Shere Kan the tiger, Bagherra the panther, Kaa the python, and Old King Louie (the latter was a mistake of Willingham who forgot King Louie was a character invented by Disney and not from the original story). We later learn Baloo the bear is also at the Farm. 

# The Farm hosts several characters briefly caricatured in the background to avoid the copyright of Disney, such as Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, or Bambi.

# All the birds of the nursery rhyme “The Death and Burial of Cock Robin” are present in the Farm - since the events of the nursery rhyme are enacted in “Animal Farm”. Cock Robin itself is actually a Fabletown bird - and the Fables Encyclopedia notes that he is actually the protagonist of a whole cycle of nursery rhymes, including “Cock Robin got up Early”. 

# The Farm hosts various characters from “Le Roman de Renart”, “The History of Reynart”, the Reynart stories of medieval France. Reynard the Fox and Noble the Lion are the most noticeable one, but we also see Brun the Bear in the Farm (identified by Buckingham’s sketch-notes). Ysengrim the wolf also appears in “Sons of the Empire”.  Reynard the fox is here notably much more pleasant and amiable than his medieval counterpart - in “Fables Encyclopedia”, Willingham explained that the first trickster of his childhoo was Bugs Bunny, a “monster of chaos”, and that for Reynard he wanted to create a “slyer, wiser and more subtle” form of trickster. 

# The Farm has numerous nursery rhymes characters. From “Hickory Dickory Dock” we have the mouse that ran down the clock. From “Hey Diddle Diddle” we have the cow who jumped over the moon, the dish and the spoon (plus in King Cole’s “Fair Share” backstory we learn there’s also the Little Dog who Laughed). We also have the Three Blind Mice (from the nursery rhyme of the same name). As well as “Mr. Sunflower”, from a nursery rhyme by R. André. 

# Three characters from “The Wind in the Willows” are here: Mr. Toad, Mr. Mole and Mr. Badger.

# Numerous small-sized humanoids live in the Farm: Tomb Thumb (an archetypal character of English fairytales), Thumbelina (from the fairytale of Andersen of the same name) and a community of Lilliputians (from Swift’s “The Travels of Gulliver”). The Lilliputians have created a “mounted police” riding “field mice” (which I believe to be some of the field mice from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”). In the Fables Encyclopedia, it is noted that the idea of the Mounted Police of Lilliputians, of tiny sergents riding on mice to do cop duty, actually comes from the song “And the Mouse Police never sleeps” from Jethro Thull’s “Heavy Horses” (even though the original song referred to a cat). 

# Several characters of the Alice books can be found here, most notably living playing cards, the Cheshire Cat (from “Alice in Wonderland”) and the Walrus (from “Alice Through the Looking-Glass”). 

# When the rebels have to be executed, the one called for the job is Jack Ketch, a historical figure turned “archetype/stereotype/common nickname” for executioners in England. He is also revealed to have been the executioner of Prince Charming’s realm, and the Fables Encyclopedia has Willingham explaining that, for him, Jack Ketch isn’t actually a citizen of Fabletown but rather the name given to whoever takes the role of the executioner of the Fables community - it is a job, a position. 

# John Barleycorn is from the folk-song of the same name.

# Mary and her little lamb are from the nursery rhyme “Mary had a little lamb”, while Miss Mousey and her frogs are from the folk-song “Frog Went-A Courting”.

# Peter Cottontail is present at the farm - “Cottontail” being the alternate name of the famous character known as “Peter Rabbit”. And while Peter Rabbit is most famous by Beatrix Potter’s writings, the character’s alias of “Peter Cottontail” comes from the novels of Thornton Burgess, such as “Old Mother West Wind” or “The Adventures of Peter Cottontail”.

# There are lot of little detail-characters that are here merely to evoke common sayings or beliefs. For example we see at one point a snail with a roof and chimney on its shell, evoking how it is said that snails carry their house on their back ; and at another point we see the duo of a snail with an umbrella and a ladybug, which is a reference to how the two animals are used to predict the weather to come (rainy weather for the snail, sunny weather for the ladybug).

The Adversary and his forces 

# The Adversary/The Emperor was designed to evoke the archetypal “evil overlord/dark lord” of epic/high fantasy. To be more precise, he draws a lot of inspiration from Sauron/Morgoth of “The Lord of the Rings”. A tall, dark, gigantic creature of darkness clad in a terrifying armor, whose plan is to conquer by blood and slaughter the entirety of the universe, whose armies are made of all sorts of awful monters (mostly goblins, with some trolls, giants and dragons thrown in the mix), and who enslaves evil sorcerers as top-agents... The reference is pretty obvious.

# The Adversary is also meant to have a devilish symbolism. The monsters creating his armies are noted to have been summoned from hellish dimensions or to be demonic in nature. He is served by sorcerers and witches. His name, the Adversary, can be translated as “Satan” (the Accuser, the Enemy). And in flashbacks he is depicted as a satyr-like entity, with one theory calling him a divine being cast out from heaven - a fallen god, or maybe fallen “angelic” entity.

# The last attack/invasion of the Adversary onto the European Fable-realms, the events of “The Last Castle”, are noted to coincide with the Napoleonian Wars over Europe - meaning the Adversary is also a fairytale version of Napoleon somehow. Though the way the Empire rules its conquered countries through the “illusion of freedom” and “puppet-kings”, the way they exist through a vast bureaucratic system confiscating all magical artefacts and enslaving or killing sorcers, their method of invading/annexing countries to their rule, imposing a strict list of permitted holidays and sending spies in the countries resisting them... It is all meant to evoke the Soviet Union and its Eastern Block during the Cold War. 

# The wooden soldiers sent by the Adversary to Fabletown are meant to evoke the “Men in black” from American urban legends/alien tales/ufology. The idea of an army of wooden soldiers created by an humble person that rose up to the rank of great evil is also an accidental parallel with “Urfin Jus and his Wooden Soldiers”, the second book of the “Tales of the Magic Land” series by Alexander Volkov (a Russian rip-off of the Oz books). 

# Baba-Yaga, the witch from Slavic folklore and Russian fairytales, is one of the top-agents and “right hands” of the Emperor. She oversees for him the land of the Rus (the Fable equivalent of Russia), and she has alongside her three magical knights - taken from the fairytale “Vasilisa the Beautiful”: Bright-Day the white horseman, rider of the dawn ; Radiant-Sun the red horseman, knight of midday, and Dark-Night the black horseman, rider under the stars. Willinghma noted that if he played into the most horrifying and frightening aspects of Baba Yaga, it was because she was his personal bogeyman and “nightmare monster” as a child. One of the rulers of the Rus lands, while under the Adversary’s control, is Ivan Tsarevich, a recurring character of Russian folktales. 

# The leader of the Adversary’s forces against Colonel Bearskin and the Last Keep at the End of the Known World is the Count Aucassin de Beaucaire, from the French medieval story “Aucassin et Nicolette”. 

# Chernomor, used to serve under Aucassin de Beaucaire (or alongside him) and became the governor of the “world of Kardan”, one of the frontier-worlds of the Empire. If you go to the Wikipedia article, Chernomor is listed as coming from the poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila” which is partially true - but the Fables Encyclopedia reveals that this version of Chernomor actually comes from the poem/fairytale “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” by Pushkine - in fact, it is this poem that Chernomor reads to himself during his first appearance. 

# In quite a twist from his Sauron-like appearance, the heart of the Empire isn’t some Mordor land. In fact, as it turns out the Empire is a vast thriving bureaucratic empire meant to evoke the Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire, due to the very bureaucratic nature of the management of the empire). The land at the heart of the Empire shares the same name as the Capital City of the Emperor (or Imperial City): Calabri Anagni. This name is made up of “Calabri”, the name of the region of Italy forming the “point of the boot”, and “Anagni”, an ancient town of central Italy. It is indeed the Homeland equivalent of Italy, and in fact the Imperial City was drawn based on the sketches and illustrations of Ancient Rome by Piranesi. Plus, the situation of the Fables living in an “exile” and a “diaspora” because of the Adversary’s conquering Empire is meant to evoke the destruction wrecked by the Roman Empire against the Jews - more specifically the Jewish-Roman Wars. 

# Willingham takes some time to explore the life and day-to-day activities of the lower-ranked goblins and soldiers of the Empire, humanizing them in their usual duties (such as tax collecting). I first I thought it was just a reference to a similar thing Tolkien did with his orcs (see “The Return of the King”) but then it clicked when I realized the “day-to-day story from the point of view of lower-ranked members of the evil empire” +  the evil empire recruiting and enslaving sorcerers and wizards as its “new nobility” + Willingham’s love for military stories and dark, gory battles...  There is definitively here an influence of Glen Cook’s The Black Company. It would make the Adversary influenced by another famous duo of “evil overlords” of fantasy: The Lady and the Dominator.

# Buckingham explained that Ogren and Throk, the goblin duo of issue 36, were inspired by the numerous British humor comics he grew up with as a child.

# The Snow Queen from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale of the same name is another one of the “great ladies” and right hands of the Emperor, just like Baba Yaga. In this version of the tale however she seems to be heavily tied to the evil mirror of the tale - she has a mirror above her throne, Buckingham revealed that the fragments of the shattered mirror are ornating her queenly outfit, and it is because of her that Kay ended up with a shard of the mirror in his eyes. Willingham sneaked a “Song of Ice and Fire” reference in the comic as, when she arrives in the Imperial City, the guards keep shouting “Winter is coming!”. Her name, “Lumi”, is the Finnish word for snow. And in the Fables Encyclopedia, Willingham revealed that the reason she became such an evil character in “Fables” is because through her he wanted to evoke a famous fictional character he could not have the rights to: The White Witch of C. S. Lewis’ Narnia. 

# The true identity of the Adversary (the Sauron/Morgoth-like Emperor being merely a “puppet”) is revealed to be none other than Gepetto, from “The Adventures of Pinocchio” who, after being enroled in a “benevolent conspiracy” against the megalomania and stupidity of local lords, slowly climbed up the ranks and became corrupted into the machiavelic, bloodthirsty tyrant he is today. In the Encyclopedia, Willingham notably said he wanted to get as far away from the Disney’s version of Gepetto as possible, and return to the character as described by Collodi, as a “cantankerous old grump”. The situation of Gepetto, a little old man behind a fake, artificial all-powerful imperial figure, is also very reminiscent of Oscar Diggs/The Wizard of Oz’s situation from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum. 

# Gepetto takes his powers from the Blue Fairy that he kidnapped and locked away - the Blue Fairy is Willingham’s strange mixture of the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair, from Collodi’s original tale, the Blue Fairy (Disney’s version of the previous) and the “original” folklore of fairies, aka the “fair folk” of the British Isles: Willingham insists on the fickle, capricious, strange and alien behavior and mindset of the Fairy. 

# The other two main agents of the Emperor, beyond Baba-Yaga and the Snow Queen, are the Nome King (a recurring antagonist from L. Frank Baum’s Oz books, now governor of Oz for the Emperor) and Hansel - the boy from “Hansel and Gretel”, who grew up into a witch-hunter and Great Inquisitor. He isn’t just designed after the Puritan witch-hunters of the “witch trials” of America: he actually was a key part of those trials. During his brief time in the Mundane World he participated in almost all of the witch-hunts throughout Europe and America. He did not start them, but he followed the witch madness everywhere it went, and took a key part in the trials and executions of the so-called witches. He is said to have been in France, Germany and Switzerland, with the Würzburg witch trials and the Salem witch trials being explicitely cited (in the latter case he was the one who encouraged the execution of Susannah Martn). Trieste is also said to have been one of the places Hansel dwelled (though I never heard of witch trials in Trieste? But there were so many I can’t possibly know them all...).

# The Snow Queen’s plan to invade Fabletown, relying on four steps being “Pestilence - Fire - Winter - Famine” is of course very reminiscent of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Christian lore - Pestilence/Conquest, War, Famine and Death. The Snow Queen’s plan for an “eternal winter” are explicitely compared to “Fimbul” - aka the Norse winter predicted for Ragnarök. Among the creatures that serves her and that she plans to send in the world, she mentions the “ice giants”, which is actually a term designated a category of creatures in Norse mythology (the rest are however non-specific entities, not exact reference - frostlings, boreal spirits, fire imps...). The sorcer used to illustrate the “Pestilence” part of the plan, Tom Harrow, was actually designed after Neil Gaiman - it was Mark Buckingham’s gift to Gaiman, who had been the best man at his wedding. Finally, of the two fictional diseases the Snow Queen mentions (the Skold brownpox and the Red City Plague), the later seems to be a reference to the “red plague” from “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe.

# A last note, taken from the “Fables Encyclopedia”: the armor of Lieutenant Oakheart, a random character among the wooden soldiers of the Empire (seen in issue 52), was actually inspired by the cover of the album “Want One” by Rufus Wainwright. 

Magical artefacts:

# The Seven-League Boots, from Charles Perrault’s Little Thumbling, are kept by Fabletown.

# The Vorpal Blade from Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky” poem (and “Alice Through the Looking Glass”) is in possession of Fabletown (and becomes Boy Blue’s weapon later).

# The magic beans, from Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack keeps trying to scam people by pretending he still has them, when in truth he lost them a long time ago. It is revealed in “Happily Ever After” that in truth Fabletown got hold of the last magic beans, which form the only way to reach the Cloud Kingdoms where the giants live. 

# Bluebeard keeps a hook in his office - it seems to be the hook of “Captain Hook”, from J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. 

# Snow-White’s office contains a sword in the stone (from the Arthurian myth), various Arabian oil lamps (a reference to “Aladdin”), as well as several Greco-Roman statues (a copy of the Venus de Milo, statues of Mars and Neptune...). 

# The Fairy Witch’s magical barley seeds from which little women are grown are from Andersen’s fairytale “Thumbelina”. 

# Bluebeard might have owned “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” - because there is the painted portrait of a man we keep seeing in his castle, that is not him, so... 

# The magic mirror of the evil queen from “Snow-White” is kept in Snow-White’s office, as well as the torn of head of the Frankenstein Creature (nicknamed “Frankie”). 

The Last Castle one-shot

# The titular “Last Castle”, of its full name the “Last Keep at the End of the Known Worlds”, is actually the castle from the Norwegian fairytale “East of the Sun and West of the Moon”, located by those directions, and beyond the “House of the Four Winds”.

# Little Red Riding Hood is from the fairytale of the same name (the brothers Grimm version, since in her story the wolf was defeated by a woodsman).

# Robin Loxley, or Robin Hood, is from British folklore and English literature. We also see two of his Merry Men: Friar Tuck and Small John. 

# Colonel Bearskin is a higher-ranked version of the titular character from the brothers Grimm fairytale “Bearskin”.

# We have two characters from Edmund Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”: Lady Britomart, the “warrior damsel”, and the Red-Cross Knight (Saint George by another name). 

# The twelve crow-brothers are from the Grimm fairytale “The Twelve Brothers”.

# Old Pellinore is a king from the Arthurian legends.

# Tam Lin, the “lover of the fairy queen”, is a character of English folklore and folk-songs (the “Ballad of Tam Lin” is his most famous depictions).

# Herman von Starkenfaust is a character from Washington Irving’s “The Spectre Bridegroom”.

# The Little Tailor that “got seven at one stroke” is from the brothers Grimm’s “The Valiant Little Tailor”.

# The Kings of Madagao and Bornegascar are the rival kings from the piece of Ambrose Bierce “Two Kings”, from his “Fantastic Fables”.

# Beaucaire and Bearskin fought many battles against each other, two of which I got the reference of: the battle of Boxen is an homage to the fictional world created by C. S. Lewis as a child, while the battle of “Oakcourt” is a reference to the legend of wise, fair and just kings holding their courts under an oak. When Blue Boy confronts Chernomor in the beginning of the “Homelands” arc, he also mentions the “battle of Vesteri”, which is apparently the battle told in the poem “Tsar Saltan”, the one where Chernomor appeared with thirty-three warriors (though the events described in the poem are apparently a false retelling of the actual events, which were the invasion of the Adversary’s army, and unlike what the poem claims Chernomor lost the battle). 

# Possibles references I am not certain of: Among the refugees at the Last Keep, there is a white-bearded wizard with a pointy hat all dressed in grey, that I think might be an homage to Tolkien’s Gandalf. There is also a solidly built young man with a goat near him that I believe to be “Blockhead Hans” from the brothers Grimm fairytales. 

The Homelands:

# The Tin Woodman, Jack Pumpkinhead, The Scarecrow and a Munchkin, all from the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, are seen fleeing the invasion of the Adversary in the “Legends in Exile” flashbacks.

# The flashbacks of “Legends in Exile” also reveal Don Quixote and Pancho (from the novel “Don Quixote”), and a queen on a sleigh pulled by swans - which I believe to be a reference to Andersen’s “The Wild Swans “fairytale.

# The two first conquests of the Adversary (after his “native land”) were “The Emerald Land” (The Land of Oz, invented by L. Frank Baum) and “The Kingdom of the Great Lion” (Narnia, created by C.S. Lewis). We even see an unnamed version of Aslan, killed by the forces of the Adversary. 

# The world of the Rus is the Homeland equivalent of Russia, the land where Slavic folktales dwell. It is drawn in the style of Ivan Bilbin (a famous illustrators for fairytales such as “Vasilisa the Beautiful” or “Prince Ivan, the Fire-Bird and the Grey Wolf”). When Boy Blues travels through the Rus lands, he comes upon the “Mice Burying the Cat”, a recurring motif and scene in Russian lubok and folktales. 

# In the arc “Arabian Nights (and Days)”, the realm of Karse is name-dropped as one of the lands conquered by the Adversary. Some people think it might be a reference to the kingdom of Karse, from Mercedes Lackey’s books “The Heralds of Valdemar”. 

# The Cloud Kingdoms, located in the sky, populated by giants and only reachable through magic beanstalks, is a reference to “Jack and the Beanstalk”. Cinderella calls it mockingly “Cloud Cuckoo Land” - an insult to the absurdity of the kingdom itself, but a subtle literary nod to Aristophanes’ famous play “The Birds”, where Cloud Cuckoo Land is an utopian city in the city. The giant squirrel friend of Cinderella in this realm, Radiskop, is revealed in the Fables Encyclopedia to be Willingham’s version of Ratatosk, the squirrel of the Word-Tree from Norse mythology (the poem “The Saying of Grimnir” is evoked by the Encyclopedia). Cinderella also plays on the expression “castles in the sky” when describing the Cloud Kingdoms - an idiom meaning an unrealistic plan or impossible dream. 

# In “The Sons of the Empire”, we follow the side-quest of a group of Fables stealing food from the imperial table: these three Fables are the Gingerbread Man (from “The Gingerbread Man” fairytale), and Mr. Porky Pine with Chicken Ripple (characters actually coming from Neil Diamond’s song “Porkupine Pie”, from the Moods album). 

The Great Powers:

# The devil himself appears in “Bag O’Bones” in a “Southern USA folktale” incarnation, as an old, disheveled black man waiting in the bayou to play card games with souls as the final bet - he is called here “Slick Nick”, or “Mr. Nick”, but due to his old-looking appearance, he quickly is called “Old Nick”, a very traditional nickname of the devil in the English language.

# Death, aka the Grim Reaper, appears in “Bag O’bones”.

# The North Wind, father of Bigby, is of course the very embodiment of the North Wind. Personified winds pop up from time to time in fairytales, and the North Wind most notably appears in “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” (a fairytale already referenced by Willingham previously). But “Mr. North”’s depicton as an old man ruling over snow and coldness is also clearly meant to enter into the archetype of “Father Winter/Old Father Winter” or “Father Frost/Grandfather Frost”. Buckingham noted that while he originally drew him inspired by Peter Wyngarde playing Jason King (see the television series Department S/Jason King), he then decided to prefer the way the character was originally drawn by Mark Wheatley in “1001 Nights of Snowfall”, as more “Norse god-looking”.

The servants and affiliated creatures of the North Wind are called after different types of winds: Mistral is a violent wind of southern France, Squall is a sudden or violent gust of wind, Whiff is a puff of air, and the Zephyrs are light breezes.

# The d’jinns are here a very dark reinterpretaton of the djinn of Arabian folklore and fairytale, reinvented as amoral creatures of pure magic that have to be bound for the sake of the entire world. These d’jinns were purposefully designed as dark parodies of the Genie from Disney’s Aladdin: like him they have blue-skin, black hair, and a “tail of smoke” for legs. As per the common legend most carried on by “1001 Nights”, the d’jinns were trapped in magical bottles by “Sulymon the Wise”, aka King Solomon. However, unlike the tradition presented by the “Arabian Nights”, in the Fables world King Solomon co-worked with Daedalus (a genius-inventor of Greek mythology, reinterpreted as the “greatest sorcerer-scientist” of Sulymon’s time) to create the magical bottles. And, Sulymon had to trick the d’jinns into getting inside the bottle, by using the same ruse displayed in the fairytale “The Fisherman and the Jinni”.

# Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus, of the American Christmas lore, exist in the Fables world, and while it is strongly hinted in the main series, the Encyclopedia confirms they are “god-like” entities in the Fables verse, close to the other Great Powers.

The 1001 Nights of Snowfall one-shot

# “Be careful what you wish for” seems to have been loosely inspired by “The Little Mermaid”, or rather forming an ironic inversion of it (especially of the more modern retellings like Disney’s), since it is about a girl wishing to explore the world, and asking a witch to turn her into a mermaid to discover the sea. The Fables Encyclopedia mentions that the girl’s name, Mersley Dotes, is only similar to the song “Mairzy Doats” by pure coincidence.

# The seven dwarfs of the Grimm “Little Snow-White” are present in “The Fencing Lesson”, and their entire system of “being an underground realm digging constantly for ore and gems” is inspired by a very traditional depiction of dwarfs ranging from Norse mythology to Tolkien - the way John Bolton draws them as ugly; misshapen, bald beings with bulbous heads or strangely-proportioned limbs reminds me of the art of Brian Froud.

# In the “Diaspora” story, Snow-White says she bought a magical stone that makes soup - it is another reference to the folktale “Stone Soup”. 

# The “Christmas Pies” storyline takes place in the world from which Reynard hails from - a medieval-time valley filled with speaking animals (the setting of the Roman de Renart). I will not name all the characters we see here, but if you know your Roman de Renart, you will recognize several such as Brichemer the deer, Noble the lion, Fière his wife, Grimbert the badger, Couar the hare, etc etc... The legend of “the miracle of the Christmas pies” seems to have been invented by Willingham here - but not out of scratch. If you know your Christmas lore, you know that miracles happening during the “nights of Christmas” are very common, that pies are tied to Christmas in the English tradition, and that magical food or miracle-food in Christmas is also a staple of folklore. An interesting note is that you can see the version of Christmas celebrated in Reynard’s homeworld is not the one celebrated in our world, because they have “Seven Nights of Christmas” - whereas we have the “Twelve Nights”. Filling the pies with stones so that, after eating it, the animals will be too heavy to move is also a recurring motif in folktales and fairytales involving capturing or killing devouring monster or gluttonous animals (most famous of which being the Big Bad Wolf stories). 

#  Colonel Thunderfoot and the talking rabbits of the “Thrumbly Warrens”, in “A Mother’s Love”, have been revealed by Willingham to have been inspired by the rabbit-society of “Watership Down”. 

The Arabian Fables:

# The Arabian Fables are clearly all coming from the most famous collection of Arabian fairytales, “One Thousand and One Nights” - they notably have a very common use of flying carpets, items mostly found in this book (and the Arabian legends of king Solomon). They also have manticores - creatures of Greek folklore, but believed to have lived in Persia (another manticore, giant-sized this one, appears in the non-referential world of Skold in “Homelands”). 

# In “1001 Nights of Snowfall”, the frame-story is literaly the frame-story of “One Thousand and One Nights”, but with Snow-White taking Scheherazade’s place as the one trying to survive Sultan Shahryar. 

# The delegation arriving in Fabletown in “Arabian Nights (and Days)” is centered around Sinbad - the famous Sinbad the sailor whose stories are told in “1001 Nights”. He has two companions which I have yet to identify as references or pure invention - but one, Yusuf, is very clearly the embodiment of the archetype of the “evil vizir” of Arabian tales coupled with the “wicked, scheming sorcerer”. People online have identified him as a possible take on Disney’s character of Jafar from their version of Aladdin, but Buckingham revealed that his design of Yusuf was actually inspired by Doctor Who’s The Master, as played by Robert Delgado. 

# Aladdin and Ali Baba, two heroes of the most famous Arabian fairytales, are said to live in the Homeland version of Baghdad, where Sinbad also dwells.

# One of the co-conspirators and allies of Yusuf is Sid Nouman - aka, Sidi Nu’uman from “The Caliph’s Night Adventures” (sub-section “The History of Sidi Nu’uman”). The identity/appearance the d’jinn takes to reach out to him is the one of “The Fair Persian” - one of the two main characters of the 1001 Nights tale “Noureddin and the Fair Persian”. 

Other things:

# In “Legends in Exile”, Rose-Red forces Bluebeard to keep their engagement secret for a year. This evokes a common trope in fairytales where a character is asked to keep a secret, or a vow of silence, for a given period of time - or where a character has to hide their marriage for a given number of years. 

# “A Wolf in the Fold” reveals that, when Bigby first arrived in the human world, he stayed in the 17th century Carpathians, and became friend with a certain “undead count” - yes, Count Dracula, from Bram Stoker’s novel.

# Before Willingham decided to have the European Fables be Christian in religion, he seems to have considered a more fantasy-like religion for them, as the chapel seen in the Knights of Malta Hospital in “Animal Farm” doesn’t have any religious imagery. Instead, its stained glass depicts fabulous beasts: a dragon, a unicorn, an hydra and a phoenix.

# The desk of Grimble has two books inside of it which are references. One is titled “Shreck!”, a nod to the Shrek movies, while the other is literaly titled “Troll Bridge by Neil Gaiman”, a reference to Gaiman’s reinterpretation of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff” fairytale.

# During Bag O’Bones, Jack (as a Confederate soldier just out of the Civil War) sings the minstrel song “Gwine Run All Night”, aka “De Camptown Races”. 

# At one point, the trio formed by Flycatcher, Boy Blue and Pinocchio go buy a series of Fabletown-produced comics, which are all parodies of actual super-hero titles. The Uncanny Oz Men are “The Uncanny X-Men” for example, the Fairytale Four are the “Fantastic Four”, the Tin Man is “Iron Man”, and the Stalk Thing is the “Swamp Thing”. “Red Hood - Little Riding Returns” might be a reference to “The Dark Knight Returns”, while the Un-Mundy... Maybe it is “Superman”? 

# When John Barleycorn explores one of the Emperor’s towers, where stolen magical items are kept, we can see the head of Baphomet sculpted on a disc. During the same quest, the other Lilliputians left behind believe that John must be with “some elf-king’s daughter” by now: this is a reference to Lord Dunsany’s “The Elf-King’s Daughter”. Finally, as John Barleycorn goes searching for the old cottage of the Fairy Witch, he orders his mount to go “Straight ‘til morning” - a sentence lifted from “Peter Pan”. 

# Kevin Thorn is compared by his colleagues to agent Mulder, from the show “X-Files”, due to being the only Mundane immune to the Fables “do not notice us” spells.

# During the “War Stories”, the project of the Nazi scientists couple two references: on one side it is named Volsüng (after a character of Norse mythology, tied to the Volsunga Saga), on the other the topic of mass-producing artificial soldiers raises the fear of it being too similar to the golem of Jewish folktales.

# In-universe, Jack took an opportunity out of the great hype surrounding fantasy movies caused by the (then still new) release of the “Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy - in turn, he himself plans to do a “better” version of them, centered around his own tales. 

# The Witching Cloak does not come from a precise story, but gathers various elements and powers usually attributed to magical cloaks and capes. For example, its powers of invisibility are similar to the Germanic tarnkappe of Siegfried, while its teleportation powers can remind of the flying cloak of feathers of Freyja in Norse mythology, and its invulnerability can evoke Herakles’ famous Nemean Lion pelt. In a similar way, the Witching Well (which is the Fabletown equivalent of a cemetery AND afterlife) is not coming from a precise story, but is born of a general rule and belief in the world of fairytales and folktales that wells are gateways to the otherworld and the dwelling of supernatural beings - as well as closely associated to death and the afterlife. One famous fairytale that has a well perceived by theoricians as a gateway to the afterlife is the brothers Grimm “Frau Holle”. 

# Willingham loves to play around with the topic of numbers in fairytales. For example, Bigby was one of seven brothers, tried to kill his father seven times, and himself has seven children. Meanwhile, when Cinderella has to fulfill a mission in the Cloud Kingdoms, everybody involved in it forces her to wait three days for her services - much to her annoyance as she wonders exactly WHY everybody asks for three days. 

# In “The Sons of the Empire”, an annoyed Prince Charming calls ironically the Beast “Gunga Din”, after the character from Rudyard Kiplng’s poem (later adapted into a movie).

# In “Jiminy Christmas”/“Father and Son”, the children of Bigby mention numerous fictional equivalents of cartoons and toys - but one in particular was talked about in “Fables Encyclopedia”, “Ranger Danger”, aka “Ranger Mike Danger”, that Willingham explained to have been the Fables equivalent of real-world G.I. Joe or Action Man. 

# As a last note: the original plans of Willingham for the Adversary’s identity and origin story was to have him be Peter Pan. This is why the descriptions of the Adversary in “Legends in Exile” are so strange in retrospective: he is described as “wood sprite” that became something much more bigger or dangerous, or a fallen god cast away from divine realms, while being depicted in the flashback as a satyr-like being - it all points out to Pan of Greek mythology. Couple this with the fact the Adversary was said to come from “beyond the shores of Never”, aka Never Land, and you understand it is Peter Pan. Willingham’s plan was to have an evil, corrupted, demented version of Peter Pan that wanted to expand his Neverland/playing ground to all the worlds nearby, hence the creation of the Empire. The same way Peter Pan would have been the “big bad”, Captain Hook was also supposed to appear as a heroic figure fighting the Adversary - he notably would have had a plotline about saving the Lost Boys, who as it turns out are an army of children Peter Pan stolen away from the worlds he visited and conquered. However Willingham discovered that the characters were not in the public domain at the time, still under copyright, and so he had to change his plans - limiting himself to having them depicted in battle in the front page of “1001 Nights of Snowfall”. 

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Remaking my RWBY OCs: Team KYNT

IDC if this is cringe I made these almost 4 years ago and I'm probably going to write the fanfiction soon if I can get the motivation.

Team KYNT (Kyanite) consists of Kelly Greene, Yale Taivas, Noire Deces, and Tawny Erimos. They attend Beacon Academy in their second year, one year ahead of team RWBY and JNPR.

I'm not an artist so I made the pictures here

Kelly Greene

Name meaning: Kelly is a shade of green and also means warrior and bright-minded in Gaelic. Greene is a different spelling of the word green, while also meaning at the green, a grassy plot used by the village common.

Semblance: Banshee's Cry; she can let out a supersonic screech. This takes up a lot of aura, so in battle she only uses it in a dire emergency. One scream and she's out, two on maybe a really good day.

Weapon: Mandolin; a musical instrument with a different type of dust ingrained into each string. The colors are always changing, implying that she regularly changed the strings on her instrument before and after battle.

Background: Kelly was born in Sanus, but traveled around Remnant for most of her life. Her parents were famous musicians who would preform from big cities like Atlas to small villages outside of the protection of guarding huntsmen. It was at one of these shows where a Grimm attack took place and she got separated from her parents in the chaos. Faced with an Elk-like Grimm, she screamed for help and out came a piercing shriek that knocked the Grimm back, destroying it. This left her weak, confused, and stranded until her parents found her and packed her up along with their belongings. This traumatic experience drove Kelly to want to attend Beacon academy.

Personality: Kelly is a soft-spoken woman, avoiding large crowds when she can and keeping to herself. If you wish to find her you usually can by looking for her in an empty lecture room practicing her music or in the library reading. She values her solitude, which is challenging when met with the responsibility of being team leader. Her performance background has helped in being able to mask this, however even this can only help her so much.

Additional notes: Dating Coco Adel of Team CVFY. I don't remember if I added this before or after her sexuality was made canon but I've loved Coco ever since her debut in Volume 2. Also she absolutely has an Irish accent, North Dublin to be exact

I didn't expect this to be this long so I guess I'll put the other three in their own separate posts too.

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Okay, so this post created because self explaning.

Since ı almost nothing write about me in my blog ı'm not sure maybe about doing this post but ı prefer write it because ı both wonder persons ı tag and in time ı post it what ı am think. And here is a personality things about me ı wonder a lot, curious a lot . I think a lot and want to make analys about things ı curious. I love every fandoms ı'm in and anyone want to talked about it with me can write me . But there is a warning I'm not good at talking (in internet too) so if ı'm a mutual with you or talking with, you write me or make interection with me and ı'm not going to send answer or didn't make interection in your post it is probably ı can't find ı way to answer it. So ı delete a pharagraph and can't write any longer being unknow ı prefer now buttt.

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Currently watching:

Miraculous (ladybug and chat noir)

Little witch academia

Sherlock ( Some episodes better than books and of course this not a remake of books but ı love Sherlock books too)

Currently Reading

The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Sır Arthur Conan Doyle( This isn't translate like either)

Village Evenings Near Dikanka and Mirgorod (This name isn't translate so long in my language) Nikolai Vashilevich Gogol

Beyond the Sleeping Wall H.P. Lovecraft

As manga The promised neverland. againnn

As nonfiction The mistery of Animals

I write Last 3 books ı read

As fanfiction ı need a list but

Shadows in The night by Helpican'tpickmyusername

Raincarnacted as Conny by VitoDeCeniza

My favorite book was

The Neverending Story

-Michael Ende

I love the stories create univers. Fantasia's desciription's also awesome. Michael Ende's books are best for me

Currently listening

Tpn ost's, LEGO Friends soundracts, bsd ost's ,Frozen, tangled the series and soms other Disney series soundracts, songs ı love their words and made lists about them.

Current obssessions

The promised neverland, LEGO friends, Bungou stray dogs, Death Note, Little Witch academia

Not shows but ı'm obseessed with: Science, fantasy/sciencefiction/literature books, writing, forensic science, philosophy

That 9 people ı wonder about them

@bella-but-not-hadid444 @creantzy @kyouka-supremacy @shibusawaz @ningensorrow @buggachat @true--north @gouthepro @overheard-in-hlc