Region · basin
Central River Basin
Primary central river basin.
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Regional detailPlaces
region
Starter Region
The land around the starter settlement at the centre of the continent (every feature within 12 km of the origin): market, forge,...
plainsCentral Plains
Broad fertile agricultural plains.
lakeCentral Lake
Major freshwater lake. A deep, still lake in the heart of the continent, fed by the northern rivers and so clear that on calm days you...
wetlandCentral Wetlands
Central wetland and floodplain system. North of Aetherial Towne the rivers coming down from the North Crown slow, spread and lose their...
forestStarter Forest
Starter gathering and hunting forest.
Bestiary
19 creatures
Common · Lv 2–4 · draft
Bog Leech
Arm-long leeches that wait in the shallows. They latch on through boots and won't let go until salted or burned.
Common · Lv 2–5 · draft
Mudshell Crawler
Fat freshwater crawlers with mud-caked shells that graze the shallows. Easy prey for new hunters; their shells line...
Common · Lv 1–2 · draft
Puddlehop Frog
Fist-sized green frogs that sing all night. The first thing most players ever hunt.
Common · Lv 1–3 · draft
Reedskimmer
Hand-sized dragonflies with glassy wings that hunt over the reeds. Fishers say a cloud of them means the Behemoth is...
Uncommon · Lv 5–8 · draft
Bogwhisper Toad
Big grey toads of the wetland edge whose low croak makes people drowsy. Travellers who sit down to rest near them...
Uncommon · Lv 4–7 · draft
Glassfin Pike
A long, almost transparent fish that flashes like a blade in the sun. Prized catch; dangerous to land.
Uncommon · Lv 6–9 · draft
Gloomfly Swarm
Clouds of grey flies that rise from rotting peat. Their bites cause marsh-fever.
Uncommon · Lv 6–9 · draft
Murmurling
Small wrong fish that swim out of the Murmur Deep: too many eyes, not enough fins. They hum the rift's hum.
Uncommon · Lv 6–9 · draft
Reedcat
Long-legged tawny cats that hunt through the reed seas and steal anything shiny from camps.
Uncommon · Lv 5–8 · draft
Snaptail Eel
Black eels that shock their prey senseless. Willowmere's main catch — and the reason fishers wear rubber gloves.
Uncommon · Lv 4–7 · draft
Willow Heron
Grey herons taller than a person, standing so still they look like dead branches. Their beaks go through leather.
Rare · Lv 9–12 · draft
Bog Hound
Hairless, mud-coloured hounds that run in packs across the firm ground and hunt by smell through the fog.
Rare · Lv 9–12 · draft
Drowned Echo
The echoes of those the lake has taken. They walk out of the water at night, dripping, repeating their last journey...
Rare · Lv 7–10 · draft
Mistling
Fog given a shape, drifting out of the thin places at Fogfall. They wear the faces of people you've lost.
Rare · Lv 8–11 · draft
Peat Wight
Bodies preserved for centuries in the peat, still wearing the clothes of an older age. When the cutters dig too...
Rare · Lv 8–11 · draft
Silt Lurker
A flat, mud-coloured ambusher as wide as a cart, buried in the shallows with only its eyes showing. It takes waders...
Elite · Lv 12–14 (Great Flood event) · draft
Rotroot Colossus
A walking hill of peat, roots and drowned timber that the Great Flood washes loose every spring. It wades toward the...
Elite · Lv 14–16 · draft
Tidecoil Serpent
An enormous lake eel that circles the Sleeping Isle like a guard dog. It attacks any boat that crosses the buoys.
Boss · Lv 15–16 (open-world boss) · draft
Vessmire, the Drowned Mother
A fen-toad the size of a house, ancient and patient, mother of every Bogwhisper Toad in the marsh. She sleeps in the...