Creatures

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Astraflore

Each Astraflore carries a unique glyph that can be harvested for crafting or ability enhancement.

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Astraflore Guardian

A living glyph-flora protector that heals allies and binds foes.

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Barkhide Sentineldraft

Ancient guardians the Fae can wake from fallen lumenwood. They ignore travellers and fall on anyone who cuts living trees.

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Blightlingdraft

Shambling heaps of grey, rotted moss that climb out of the Rotblight patches. Where they walk, herbs die.

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Bog Hounddraft

Hairless, mud-coloured hounds that run in packs across the firm ground and hunt by smell through the fog.

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Bog Leechdraft

Arm-long leeches that wait in the shallows. They latch on through boots and won't let go until salted or burned.

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Bogwhisper Toaddraft

Big grey toads of the wetland edge whose low croak makes people drowsy. Travellers who sit down to rest near them don't always get up.

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Bramble Stalkerdraft

Wolves of bark and thorn that hunt in packs of three. The Thornmark clans and the Stalkers have been at war for longer than either remembers.

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Briar Stalkerdraft

A cat-shaped tangle of thorn and bramble that hunts gatherers in the fog. You hear it as a rustle that stops when you stop.

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Brinegull Swarmdraft

Shrieking clouds of sea-gulls that steal fish, bait and anything shiny. Annoying, not dangerous — unless there are a hundred of them.

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Captain Varn Hollowtidedraft

Admiral of the drowned merchant fleet, still commanding his ships from the wreck of the flagship. He believes the storm hasn't ended yet, and that...

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Cragmaw Lynxdraft

A big grey cat of the scree slopes that ambushes from above at dusk. Beastkin guides count its scratch-marks before choosing a path.

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Crownspire Sentinel

A metaphysical guardian enforcing cosmic law.

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Drowned Choirdraft

The abbey's lost monks, singing underwater in the flooded nave. Their song drags the living down.

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Drowned Echodraft

The echoes of those the lake has taken. They walk out of the water at night, dripping, repeating their last journey toward a home that isn't there anymore.

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Echo Manta

A creature associated with the Echo family and Echo Vale.

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Echo Wraith

A memory-bound apparition that repeats past events.

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Emberfang Beast

A flame-scaled predator born from molten glyph pools.

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Fenbee Swarmdraft

Hollis Dunmore's bees, or their wild cousins. Fat, slow and fine unless someone touches the hive.

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Forgebound Automaton

A technomystic construct powered by soultech resonance.

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Foxglove Adderdraft

Purple-banded snakes that lie among the foxglove and look exactly like it.

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Gale Rocdraft

Enormous cliff birds that nest on Stormwall Point and fly into the rift-storms on purpose. Stormwatchers say they are the Stormcaller's heralds.

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Galecrest Wyvernlingdraft

Small storm-drakes that nest on the summits and feed on lightning. The Drakari of Skyrest tolerate them; everyone else gets dived on.

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Glassfin Pikedraft

A long, almost transparent fish that flashes like a blade in the sun. Prized catch; dangerous to land.

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Gloamhartdraft

Silver deer whose antlers glow under moonlight. Where a herd beds down, Getsugyoku lies in the streambed.

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Gloomfly Swarmdraft

Clouds of grey flies that rise from rotting peat. Their bites cause marsh-fever.

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Glowmoth Swarmdraft

Clouds of pale moths drawn to Keisai veins. Prospectors follow them at night to find new seams.

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Glyphbound Titan

Massive Aetherborn formed from origin, conflict, and knowledge glyphs. Titans act as living anchors for the Soul Engine, stabilizing reality...

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Gravemind Seraph

Winged guardians formed from conflict and binding glyphs. Their feathers shift between matter and shadow, reflecting the balance of the Soul...

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Hester Vane, the Overgrowndraft

The herbalist who wanted Void Moss without the fog. She's still in the heart of her glasshouse, moss-grown and crystal-veined, tending the bed...

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Ironhide Basiliskdraft

A heavy lizard that eats Tetsuei ore and grows a living iron hide. Its stare sets anything it watches too long as stiff as stone.

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Lanternwispdraft

Floating lights that look exactly like a traveller's lantern. Follow one and you wake up in the Weeping Glade.

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Lumivox

Lumivoxes are fox-like Aetherborn formed from memory and origin glyphs. Their tails store mnemonic glyphs that shimmer with past experiences....

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Mistlingdraft

Fog given a shape, drifting out of the thin places at Fogfall. They wear the faces of people you've lost.

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Moonveil Stalker

A lunar predator that manipulates emotional tides.

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Mossback Boardraft

Heavy forest boars with moss growing on their backs. Good meat, bad temper.

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Mosshell Snaildraft

Snails the size of a loaf with gardens growing on their shells. Slow, harmless and — according to Wren — very competitive.

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Mudmawdraft

Delta crocodiles with backs like driftwood. Ferriers count them before every crossing.

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Mudshell Crawlerdraft

Fat freshwater crawlers with mud-caked shells that graze the shallows. Easy prey for new hunters; their shells line every path in Reedmere.

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Murmurlingdraft

Small wrong fish that swim out of the Murmur Deep: too many eyes, not enough fins. They hum the rift's hum.

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Nettle Boardraft

Wild pigs whose bristles have grown into stinging nettles. They root up whole herb beds overnight.

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Nullspawn Horror

A corruption-born monstrosity feeding on metaphysical decay.

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Ossvein, the Delving Wyrmdraft

A colossal earth-wyrm whose tunnelling hollowed out the Western Spine. The Stoneborn of Varrowdeep do not hunt it; they leave offerings of ore at...

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Peat Wightdraft

Bodies preserved for centuries in the peat, still wearing the clothes of an older age. When the cutters dig too deep, they sit up.

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Pollen Wispdraft

Golden motes that drift over the beds at dusk, puffing sleep-pollen at anything that breathes.

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Puddlehop Frogdraft

Fist-sized green frogs that sing all night. The first thing most players ever hunt.

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Pulse Wraith

Ethereal beings formed from motion and ascension glyphs. Pulse Wraiths drift between layers, leaving trails of kinetic resonance. They appear...

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Quartzback Ramdraft

Mountain rams whose horns grow out in clear Hakusho crystal. Rutting season fills the high meadows with the sound of ringing crystal.

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Reedcatdraft

Long-legged tawny cats that hunt through the reed seas and steal anything shiny from camps.

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Reedskimmerdraft

Hand-sized dragonflies with glassy wings that hunt over the reeds. Fishers say a cloud of them means the Behemoth is dreaming well.

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Reefclaw Crabdraft

Knee-high crabs that crowd the rocks at low tide. One claw is much bigger than the other, and it is always the one you didn't watch.

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Relic Wardendraft

An ancient guardian construct of the drowned temple, still keeping its watch underwater. Its chest holds a Ruten core older than the kingdom.

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Riftbloomdraft

A lumenwood sapling twisted by the rift into a giant, many-mouthed flower. It is the heart of the Weeping Glade, and it is still growing.

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Riftbrine Horrordraft

A many-armed thing that climbs out of the Tide Fracture at spring tide, dragging rift-water with it. The reactor docks were plated against it.

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Rotroot Colossusdraft

A walking hill of peat, roots and drowned timber that the Great Flood washes loose every spring. It wades toward the nearest village.

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Saltwing Raydraft

Wide grey rays that leap from the surf and glide for dozens of metres. Their tails sting.

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Sapskitterdraft

Twig-legged crawlers that drink lumen sap straight from the bark. Their bellies glow with what they've eaten.

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Screaming Mandrakedraft

A pulled mandrake that didn't want to be. It grows little legs, runs, and screams loud enough to drop a grown warrior.

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Shalecrawlerdraft

A long, plated grazer that scrapes ore-lichen off rock faces. Harmless unless cornered, but its plates are half Tetsuei and miners hunt it for the scraps.

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Silt Lurkerdraft

A flat, mud-coloured ambusher as wide as a cart, buried in the shallows with only its eyes showing. It takes waders by the ankle.

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Slagjaw Golemdraft

An ore-hauler construct that went wrong in the dark of The Hollowing. It still collects ore — and anything else that falls into its jaw-hopper —...

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Snaptail Eeldraft

Black eels that shock their prey senseless. Willowmere's main catch — and the reason fishers wear rubber gloves.

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Solaris Gryphon

A radiant gryphon empowered by solar glyphfire.

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Squall Wraithdraft

Spirits of wind and lightning torn loose from the rift-storms. They ride the gusts along the cliffs and strike anything metal.

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Starborn Colossus

A massive ascension entity that bends fate and starlight.

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Starweaver Leviathan

Colossal cosmic serpents that swim through the Ascendant Horizon. Their bodies shimmer with starlight glyphs, and their presence bends local physics.

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Stormbound Titan

A colossal kinetic construct powered by storm glyphs.

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The Bog Abbotdraft

The abbey's last abbot, still keeping his vigil in the drowned chancel. Moss has grown through his robes and into him. He believes the abbey is...

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The Gloam Stagdraft

A pale stag whose antlers flower with Astral Bloom. It walks down out of the Gloaming on Bloomnight to drink from the Witchlight Pools. The...

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The Potting Golemdraft

Hester's garden construct, built to carry soil and water the beds. The moss got into its joints and its orders. It still waters the Void Moss. It...

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Thistle Haredraft

Grey-brown hares with burrs in their fur, fat on stolen Moonroot. Marla pays a copper a tail.

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Thornweaver Spiderdraft

Long-legged spiders that string thorn-barbed webs between lumenwood trunks. The webs catch the glow and are almost invisible.

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Tidecoil Serpentdraft

An enormous lake eel that circles the Sleeping Isle like a guard dog. It attacks any boat that crosses the buoys.

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Umbral Stalker

A creature associated with the Veil family and Veilmarsh.

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Vaelthorn, the First Boughdraft

The great tree-spirit at the heart of the forest, coiled in the roots of Heartroot Hollow. The Fae say every lumenwood is one of its seeds. It...

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Veil Serpent

A shadow serpent that slips between layers of reality.

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Veinwraithdraft

The echoes of miners lost in The Hollowing's collapse. Each one repeats its last shift — the same swing, the same shout — and anything that...

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Vessmire, the Drowned Motherdraft

A fen-toad the size of a house, ancient and patient, mother of every Bogwhisper Toad in the marsh. She sleeps in the pool beneath the Hollow...

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Willow Herondraft

Grey herons taller than a person, standing so still they look like dead branches. Their beaks go through leather.

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Witchlight Mothdraft

Pale moths with wings like lit paper that feed on Astral Bloom. Killing one dims every bloom around it; netting one is an art.

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Wrecklight Shadedraft

The lantern-bearers of the Drowned Fleet. They walk the decks at night, swinging lights that call ships onto the shoal.