Bestiary

Aqura are enormous, sleek river fish in Thalcoris used by the Tenari as mounts and draft animals near Xalatun. Riders grip harnesses around their dorsal fins, and some aqura pull long, narrow boats through the current. Zayren and Razen r...

Astragons are massive winged celestial beasts with starlit scales, immense essence, and voluntary rider bonds. The world contains both wild astragons in the Plains of Eternity and frog origin astragons from Erenmyr. Glin, Splin, Gin, and...

Pure blooded atraxi suffer from an essence condition that makes their bodies absorb too much essence until they collapse inward or begin dissolving. Essence towers and Jorhan's reservoir in Atraxis Prime can hold the condition back. The...

Colossal fish are immense aquatic beasts in Lake Eternity and the waters near the Plains of Eternity. They are powerful enough to threaten ships, exhausted flying mages, and even high level expeditions moving through the region's unstabl...

Common beasts include animals and livestock: farm animals, food animals, work animals, and wildlife such as goats, chickens, oxen, fish, crabs, birds, bugs, predators, deer like grazing animals, bears, and beasts of burden.

Darkness creatures are hostile beings that emerge from darkness, corrupted land, and darkness outbreaks. They include umbral stalkers, ebon wraiths, harbingers, serpent like creatures, wolf like creatures, half formed humanoid things, sw...

Dragons are powerful magical beasts of the Plains of Eternity and the wild regions around Myrravel. They threaten travelers from the air.

Ebon wraiths are ghostly darkness creatures that create mental illusions when darkness creatures overrun settlements. They appear around villages, city gates, and the borders of the Land of Darkness, often behind umbral stalkers and near...

Essence shapers, commonly called shapers, are the essence altered descendants of humans from the Malverand Empire. Their bodies were fused with microscopic essence cores to survive the darkness threatening Maraveth, creating ash skinned...

Frosthorn oxen are enormous draft animals used in Teryndal for wagon travel, farm labor, and military logistics. They are favored for strength and tenacity on unforgiving terrain, making them useful alongside essence core transport and e...

Giant cuddly frogs are enormous, intelligent magical amphibians from Erenmyr in Xalmyrra. They carry bonded riders over long distances, understand speech, and communicate through croaks, body language, and thought like impressions.

Harbingers are powerful, high ranking darkness creatures formed from high ranking mages corrupted by darkness. Soltheris commanders respond to them as a new darkness born threat when they strike southern villages, where they move unpredi...

Humans are the dominant mortal humanoid species in the nations of Valrindor, ancient Xalmyrra, Earth, and the Malverand Intergalactic Empire. They form civilian populations, mages, soldiers, rulers, researchers, worshippers, and empire b...

Ibrashi are stubborn, sheep like magical livestock raised for excellent wool and meat in Ulzathir. They are also among the eligible creatures for a proposed Celestial Games beast taming challenge.

Large land snakes are dangerous creatures of the Plains of Eternity. During Viviana and Gren's march toward Myriandel, one suddenly attacks and swallows several members of the marching army. Other warped threats, including an aggressive...

Large serpents are serpent form darkness creatures encountered during the renewed darkness outbreak in the southern region and islands of Thalassai. During Naryon and Pontarius's expedition, they attacked alongside wolf like creatures an...

Massive yellow orange birds are enormous essence rich flying creatures of the Plains of Eternity and a hidden cave in Vintergard. Similar enormous native birds glide over Xolterra, including above Tequaltor and the savanna near Xalatun.

Moving blue flowers are mobile plant creatures native to the Plains of Eternity. They grow and move through the wilds, near Myriandel, and in Zarephon's gardens and streets. They move around travelers and city residents, and they attract...

Orange and white striped bugs are oversized insects that live in the flowered regions of the Plains of Eternity, including the lands near Lake Eternity and the approach to the source. Large Plains bugs also include orange and black fluff...

Pure essence beings are beings made mostly or entirely from essence. They include golden wisps, Orin's wisp derived body, gods, god core beings such as Hrzai, Cassian, Splin, and other creatures with unusually dense essence.

Skylorns are goat type animals native to Thalassai.

Umbral stalkers are skeletal, wolf like darkness creatures that often attack in packs. They attack during darkness outbreaks around villages, city gates, and routes through the Land of Darkness, where they move ahead of or alongside ebon...

Whisperfoxes are elusive fox like beasts that live in Xalmyrra. Near the western borders of Lake Velisyth, one pair has sleek dusky fur, silvery flecks, and a whisper like echo when they vanish. They also dart through forest undergrowth...