MythicalDragon
Mountains; the dragon lands of southern Onsa
Impenetrable scales, fire, and claws that pierce the hardest armour. Dragons tend their own herds and leave travellers alone outside their lands.
Fauna
Creatures you may meet
Ordinary animals look much as they do on Earth. The extraordinary ones are marked.
Mythical
MythicalUnicorn
Remote meadows
A creature of light and life, very rarely seen. Sightings should be reported to the Bureau, which will not believe you.
MythicalWater dragon
Seas and great rivers
The dragons of the sea, with a “speech” only half understood by their mountain cousins.
AnimalGrey wolf
Forests and highlands
Common across the colder lands. Stay with your caravan.
AnimalRed fox
Farms and woodland edges
Simula’s farmers will pay well for the capture of a certain henhouse thief.
AnimalLeopard
Jungle and grassland edges
Silent, spotted, and better at climbing than you.
AnimalSun bear
Tropical forests
Small for a bear. Still a bear.
AnimalWater buffalo
Wetlands and river plains
Hard-working, short-tempered and very large.
AnimalCrocodile
Rivers and swamps
Do not mistake one for a log. Do not mistake a log for a bridge.
AnimalPython
Jungles
Patient. Very patient.
AnimalIguana
Tropical coasts
A familiar sight on Simula’s beaches.
AnimalMonkey
Jungles
Will steal your lunch, your hat and your dignity.
AnimalSloth
Tropical forests
Recommended to visitors as a model for the pace of island life.
AnimalParrot
Tropical forests
Brilliant colours; picks up words in several languages, most of them rude.
AnimalToucan
Tropical forests
All beak and good humour.
AnimalHawk
Highlands and open country
Much admired by the Hawkmen of Falkiri, for obvious reasons.
AnimalGreat horned owl
Forests
The night shift. Not to be confused with the strigur.
MythicalRed dragon
Mountains
Red, proud and best viewed from a great distance.
Unillustrated
Curiosities & dangers
Our artists declined these commissions. We can’t say we blame them.
Cuttlewyrm
Vorpal Swamp
Dragonkin the size of a dragon and more aggressive: legless, wingless, and breathing poison gas.
Cuttlewyrm bird
Vorpal Swamp
The Life bird, super fast, with razor-edged armoured feathers. The only thing the cuttlewyrm fears. Do not touch its eggs.
Rock golem
Hardened Wood
A living golem that feeds on tummernuts. The people of Elanaire call them stone giants.
Strigur
Forests
A mana-powered beast with something of the owl and something of the bear. The something is claws.
Elemental birds
Wherever their essence runs strong
Phoenix, roc, thunderbird and their kin: birds made of a single essence. Witnesses are rare and usually singed.
Chihuahua
The Isle of Ni
See Travel Advisories. We mean it.
Flora
The Bureau herbarium
Plants on Temar carry essence, some of them a great deal of it. Look, admire, and ask an apothecary before you eat anything.