── ⋅ ── Creatures of Eldritch While Eldritch is home to many familiar animals, there are also a handful of creatures found nowhere else. Some are common and seen almost every other day, while others are more elusive and rarely seen outside of stories or lucky encounters. Some are harmless. Others are best admired from a distance. ── ⋅ ──── ⋅ ── ✧ Driftlings Small floating creatures that drift through the air in groups. Their round, translucent bodies contain lightweight sacs that keep them suspended, while thin tendrils trail behind them like pieces of cloud. They feed on pollen, spores, and tiny insects carried by the wind. They are completely harmless and often gather near sacred places. - Size: Mini - Type: Insect - Demeanor: Calm, curious - Approachability: Yes ✧ Glowbugs Tiny insects with glowing bodies that gather in large swarms during warmer seasons. Each Glowbug shines a slightly different color, causing entire fields and forests to sparkle after sunset. - Size: Mini - Type: Insect - Demeanor: Peaceful, skittish - Approachability: Yes ✧ Prismites Small crystal-bodied insects with six delicate legs and transparent shells. Light travels through their bodies instead of blood, causing them to flash brilliant colors when startled. They are often found near caves, crystals, and mineral-rich areas. - Size: Mini - Type: Insect - Demeanor: Timid, curious - Approachability: Yes ✧ Whistlers Small bird-like creatures with hollow feather structures along their necks instead of a normal voice. They do not possess a mouth. When wind passes through them, they create beautiful melodies. Different groups have different songs. - Size: Mini - Type: Prey - Demeanor: Curious, social - Approachability: Yes ✧ Puffhops Round, rabbit-sized creatures covered in soft moss-like fur. When frightened, they release harmless clouds of spores before quickly hopping away. They are common around damp forests and caves. - Size: Small - Type: Prey - Demeanor: Skittish - Approachability: Yes ✧ Twiggies Small squirrel-like creatures with bark-textured skin, leafy tails, and tiny wooden plates along their backs. They collect seeds, shiny stones, feathers, and other objects to decorate their nests. They are notorious for stealing anything that catches their eye. - Size: Small - Type: Prey - Demeanor: Curious, mischievous - Approachability: Yes ✧ Skyfish Small, silver creatures no bigger than a common trout that swim through air currents instead of water. They move in shimmering schools above cliffs and valleys, using fin-like wings to steer themselves. - Size: Small - Type: Prey - Demeanor: Peaceful, skittish - Approachability: Yes ✧ Tangletails Long-bodied forest creatures resembling a cross between a ferret and a lizard, with flexible tails and leaf-like fins running down their backs. Their coloring allows them to blend into dense plants almost perfectly. They are harmless but known for stealing shiny objects from camps. - Size: Small - Type: Prey - Demeanor: Curious, sneaky - Approachability: Yes ✧ Cinderskips Small lizard-like creatures with powerful hind legs that allow them to jump across hot stones and volcanic ground. They have the ability to light themselves on fire. - Size: Small - Type: Prey - Demeanor: Energetic - Approachability: Yes ✧ Blinkers Small nocturnal predators with enormous eyes. They remain completely still until skittering around very quickly in short bursts. They eat bugs and commonly are known to stay mostly in their burrows, staring out. - Size: Small - Type: Predator - Demeanor: Cautious - Approachability: Yes ✧ Weals Smooth amphibious creatures with six webbed limbs and long finned tails. They move through water almost effortlessly, weaving between currents like birds through air. Their skin changes color to match their surroundings. They commonly follow around swimming cats. - Size: Medium - Type: n/a - Demeanor: Curious, playful - Approachability: Yes ✧ Burrowers Stocky underground creatures with armored backs and powerful digging claws. They create massive tunnel networks beneath forests and mountains. They rarely bother cats unless their homes are disturbed. - Size: Medium - Type: n/a - Demeanor: Calm, cautious - Approachability: No (Rarely seen) ✧ Glasswings Large insect-like creatures with completely transparent wings that reflect light into rainbow patterns. They are often found near rivers and open fields after storms. - Size: Medium - Type: Insect - Demeanor: Peaceful, skittish - Approachability: Yes
✧ Leapers Tall, powerful herbivores with oversized legs and two long tails used for balance and as extra limbs. They can clear enormous distances in a single jump. They travel in groups across open territories and make deep, grumbling calls. Size: Medium Type: n/a Demeanor: Alert, gentle - Approachability: Yes ✧ Bouldgurs Slow-moving creatures covered in thick mineral plates that grow throughout their lives. Older beasts often have moss, crystals, and small plants growing across their backs. They are peaceful giants. - Size: Medium - Type: n/a - Demeanor: Docile - Approachability: Yes ✧ Ripplebacks Huge aquatic creatures with wide, smooth backs and powerful tails. They spend most of their lives beneath the water, only surfacing occasionally. From a distance, they can look like floating islands. - Size: Giant - Type: n/a - Demeanor: Peaceful - Approachability: Yes ✧ Billowers (fire) + Scaulders (chem) Large creatures with neon-ish sacs of either flammable liquid (yellow/orange/green) or boiling hot chemicals (blue/green/purple) draping from their chest and neck. They have the ability to shoot/blow fire or chemicals from their mouths at enemies. - Size: Large - Type: n/a - Demeanor: Territorial, peaceful unless threatened - Approachability: Yes ✧ Grazers Large herbivores covered in soft plant-like fur. During greenleaf, flowers and small plants grow across their backs before falling away later in the year. Many insects and birds travel alongside them. - Size: Large - Type: n/a - Demeanor: Gentle, calm - Approachability: Yes ✧ Lurtles Massive grazing creatures similar in looks to tortoises, covered in layered stone-like armor. Some older Lurtles become walking ecosystems, carrying moss, flowers, and even small trees. They are rarely threatened by predators. - Size: Large - Type: n/a - Demeanor: Peaceful, slow - Approachability: Yes ✧ Emberhorns Large creatures adapted to volcanic environments. Their dark scales resemble cooled lava, with glowing markings appearing between their plates. They feed on heat-loving plants and lava deep in Ashclan territory and are surprisingly gentle. - Size: Large - Type: n/a - Demeanor: Calm, stubborn - Approachability: Yes ✧ Watchers Two legged, long necked creatures with sharp talons and long, muscular tails. They typically hang around larger predators (most typically Cragmaws) and as their name suggests, let out a alarm-like noise when threatened to alert other beasts. - Size: Medium - Type: Predator - Demeanor: Territorial, aggressive - Approachability: Yes (But do not stick around) ✧ Scroungers Wolf-life creatures with broad shoulders and giant maws. Serrated teeth and split bottom jaw make this creature terrifying. Short bobbed tails and no ears. Typically don't go after cats, they mostly scavenge. - Size: Medium - Type: Predator - Demeanor: Territorial, solitary - Approachability: Yes (But do not stick around) ✧ Ravagers Leopard type creature with a long thin prehensile tail, long almost catfish-like whiskers all over their body, and knife-sharp claws. Possesses the ability to completely turn themselves invisible at will. Very dangerous and sightings are treated seriously. - Size: Medium/large - Type: Predator - Demeanor: Secretive, solitary, territorial - Approachability: No ✧ Chargers Horse-like, hooved herbivores that live and congregate in herds most commonly in Highclan territory. Many types of horns and coat colors. - Size: Large - Type: n/a - Demeanor: Peaceful, skittish - Approachability: Yes ✧ Razorwings Four-winged aerial predators with sharpened feather edges used during dives. They are incredibly fast and usually hunt larger creatures. Their feathers are highly valued. - Size: Large - Type: Predator - Demeanor: Aggressive, territorial - Approachability: Yes (But do not stick around) ✧ Cragmaws Massive predators with stone-like scales, powerful claws, no front limbs, and giant, strong tails they use to throw boulders. They trample stone and make giant nests they protect with their lives. Sightings are rare and treated seriously. - Size: Giant - Type: Predator - Demeanor: Aggressive, solitary - Approachability: No ✧ Rootmaws Ancient underground predators covered in bark-like armor. They hide beneath the earth and ambush prey that passes above. Thankfully, they spend most of their lives dormant. - Size: Giant - Type: Predator - Demeanor: Aggressive, territorial - Approachability: No ✧ Longstriders Towering herbivores with incredibly long legs that allow them to walk above tall forests and grasslands. They migrate slowly across Eldritch and are rarely disturbed. - Size: Giant - Type: n/a - Demeanor: Peaceful, cautious - Approachability: Yes (Keep out of the way of their hooves) ✧ Skydancers Enormous floating creatures resembling giant manta rays with feather-like undersides. They ride high-altitude currents and may go years without touching land. - Size: Giant - Type: n/a - Demeanor: Peaceful, mysterious - Approachability: Yes
