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Bzulakar

Person

The most powerful person on Alaria: a nine-thousand-year-old lich who once emptied a coast to cheat one death, failed, and has wanted nothing since.

Chavux

Creature

A wild green dragon lairing in the Blades, raiding Adron's strait shipping, untouchable because no Naga of Adron will kill a dragon.

Dragons

Creature

Nagatayora's near-immortal line, made to guard Gaea's world; dominant in the deep age, scattered and wild since the Shattering. Every dragon hatches at Nagayeshi.

Ghosts

Creature

A freed soul stranded in the Astral kingdoms of the dead: a will-less husk of light, and not the person who died.

Great Apes of the Apelands

Creature

The dominant predators of the Apelands region in the Elder Wilds—massive primates standing forty feet tall, possessed of terrifying strength and violent territorial instincts.

Nebúlkano

Creature

Blind, also known as star hags.

Phendexelas the Beautiful

Person

Gorgon queen of Phirexes, who saved the Dengar from a doom of her own making. In sixty years she has never once left the swamp.

Pythalomos

Creature

Dragon of constrictor snakes.

Senwyn the Agonizer

Creature

Dragon of venomous snakes.

Shades

Creature

A freed shadow in the Malstaric kingdoms of the dead: a husk of borrowed dark that holds the dead's secrets, not the person who died.

Souljack

Creature

A captive soul clamped into a suit of white, bone-clad armor by Deoric thread-work, kept from its rise and made to serve in silence.

Specters

Creature

A soul or shadow that necromancy stranded mid-transit in the overlay, left without the spirit that gave it will, and bound to serve its maker.

Stone Titans

Creature

Earth-plane substance given coherent form: living stone that walks the deep seams once a century and leaves nothing when destroyed.

The Unmade

Creature

A void-bound remnant in the deepest reaches of the Caves of Nykthos, left half-erased by the working that canceled the cave's leyline signature.

Umbral Agents

Creature

Shadow-beings native to Malstaris, never alive and never anyone's. The shadow-realm's enforcers, and the first things through a Shadowrift.

Undead

Creature

When a strand of the dead is kept from leaving the material plane, it rises as undead—most mindless, spiritless, and easily enslaved.

Wights

Creature

Corpse-undead that keep a dead person's cunning and spite without their mind, the held shadow having caught more than a skeleton's did.

Anthorlax

Creature

Giant, 18-foot tall, blue-scaled, lizard creatures.

Beshu's Court

Person

Massive (18 feet) four-armed ogre.

Blood Monkeys

Creature

Nasty, blood-drinking monkeys.

Bode

Creature

Brutemage

Creature

Giant mages.

Celestial Ripper

Creature

Giant, planar traveling, 200 foot tall beast.

Cirthikin

Creature

Large, burrowing, praying mantis-like creatures.

Coin Imp

Creature

A pet for many merchants in the West.

Corpse Cloud

Creature

Insects that swarm the dead.

Desert Mammoth

Creature

Very docile.

Devourer

Creature

Huge maw, can swallow anything.

Drakes

Creature

Drakes are similar to wyverns in anatomy (one pair of legs, one pair of wings with claws on their ends), but are much smaller, only…

Eelapede

Creature

Giant swamp centipedes, grow incredibly long and carry disease, poison prey, and drag people into the water

Erzqin

Creature

Bug eyed, 4 armed, clawed, crustacean-y sea monsters.

Flesh Giant

Creature

Colossal, undead giant.

Gallows Giant

Creature

A giant—still huge, but horribly malnourished.

Gloam

Creature

Furry wings, goat legs and goat head, human arms.

Greater Ent

Creature

Collosal trees.

Griffin

Creature

Lion body, eagle head.

Hags

Creature

Nature attuned creatures, don't like sentient creatures fucking up the forest.

Imalayka

Creature

Yak-unicorns, home in the mountains.

Iorsi the Terrible

Creature

Brutal, cruel dragon of wind, snow, and ice.

Jotuns

Creature

Frost giants.

Julrus the Fierce

Creature

Sand dragon.

Kimril

Creature

Goat legged, crazy earthling creatures.

Kyth

Creature

The Kyth are spectral ghost-like creatures that inhabit the Nirvanis Mountains.

Leather Skeleton

Creature

Leather skeletons look like horribly malnourished humanoids—just skin and bones.

Lightning Raptor

Creature

Giant pterodactyl like creatures that travel in thunderstorms, drag prey up to sky where they get struck by lightning.

Lindworms

Creature

More vicious, stupid descendents of dragons.

Lusterwar

Creature

Sometimes, those who die in combat come back as revenants just because they love to fight so much.

Machilvoar

Creature

Seven feet high, they feed on human children.

Magma Lizard

Creature

Obsidian teeth, drips molten lava, modeled off of t-rex

Magma Snails

Creature

Can grow in all sizes.

Maned Drake

Creature

Furry, lion-maned drakes.

Mechwurm

Creature

Giant, aether-powered wurm created by gnomes in the mountains.

Monkin

Creature

Carnivorous, hominid ape-like creatures.

Morgnor (dragon)

Creature

Rules over the Hills of Red Gold.

Myapona

Creature

Cross between a hippo and a tuna.

Namespeakers

Creature

Black, gold tattoed, blakc feathered cloaks, children of ravens.

Narcorn

Creature

A unicorn-bull.

Nelkie

Creature

Nelkie are small, fae-born creatures that spawn in areas of intense sadness or despair.They feed on teh misery, spreead it, and will spoil food, destroy…

Northern Roc

Creature

These magnificent blueish white beasts are slightly smaller than their southern cousins, but possess complete control over the wind, are impervious to the cold, and…

Nylaus Kraken

Creature

Giant sea-snake creature, with 100 foot diameter body.

Pain Walkers

Creature

Cause slow, deep pain in a radius around them, growing more intense as you get closer.

Plathk

Creature

Ravenous, yellow-orange demons that occasionally show up from other planes.

Polar Unicorn

Creature

A giant, white shaggy beast with a single, large horn.

Pseilemori

Creature

Pretty little winged creatures.

Qorgath

Creature

The Qorgath is a giant, creepy sea monster that births all the Erzqin that live in the Dragons' Teeth.

Ratlins

Creature

A disgusting cross between goblins and rats, these creatures multiply tremendously fast, aren't super bright, and plague cities.

Ruin Giant

Creature

Giants made of stone that don’t require food, and are attracted to ruins as guardians.

Sand Dragons

Creature

Sand dragons are not dragons, though they do have breath weapons like dragons, thus their names.

Saygheod the Forgotten

Creature

Saygheod was forgotten about by the rest of the world, so wanted to punish world.

Screamers

Creature

Wailing women, lost on plains.

Shambling Giants

Creature

Enormous, moss and tree covered giants.

Shin-keth

Creature

Shadow gnolls.

Sleepers

Creature

Hag-like creatures whose presence forces irresistible sleep — even as you stay fully aware they mean to kill you.

Slerp

Creature

White, slimy, translucent pray mantis-like creatures that dwell in caves.

Snagwing

Creature

Red, winged, bat-cats.

Sprites

Creature

Fae-born creatures of happiness and joy.

Strolzaq

Creature

Strolzaq is the pet dragon of Bzulakar.

Talathere

Creature

Appear as normal humans, descendants of dragons, and possess unique ability to completely dominate a dragon.

Therozonaur

Creature

Crazy, dumb, but pain immune giant domesticated animal.

Timiru

Person

Cross between poseidon and a decrepit old hag.

Titan

Creature

The titans were created by Azus.

Titanwurm

Creature

These now extinct beasts were literally larger than mountains—stretchnig sometimes up to 200 miles long.

Trolls

Creature

Stupid, large, brown to green humanoids.

Tyungula

Creature

Giant king crab under the Solemn Sea

Umbryn

Creature

The umbryn are large, dark-attuned panther-like creatures.

Underbears

Creature

Large, gray-green tunnel-bears.

Ural of the Third Moon

Creature

Deep, purple color.

Ven

Creature

Spirit slaves, usually kept in jars and other small containers.

Wyverns

Creature

Two legs, two wings.

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