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Current-Sense Merfolk
Creature Current-Sense Merfolk A scaled, finned reef-kin of the living coral city who feels the current and keeps the deep spires, the throne's social, clannish, and most certain fin.
Bone-Carry Dregmaw
Creature Bone-Carry Dregmaw A shark-skinned, gilled judge of the bone city who carries the warren's bones and keeps the low warrens, the warren's quick, clannish, and most certain hand.
Sound-Reader Shadow Goblin
Creature Sound-Reader Shadow Goblin A nearly-blind goblin of the sunless sinkhole who reads the dark by sound and shadow and treats light as noise.
Spire-Tuner Lightning Goblin
Creature Spire-Tuner Lightning Goblin A charged, patient goblin of the crystal spires who tunes the spires' resonance and keeps the ridge's stored charge from spilling.
Surface-Turn Water Goblin
Creature Surface-Turn Water Goblin A gill-rimmed goblin of the drowned cave network who turns to the waterline and trades with the surface, the warrens' only open hand.
Stormdrinker Lightning Goblin
Creature Stormdrinker Lightning Goblin A charged, reckless goblin of the crystal spires who drinks the storm through the spires' pale blue light and meters the sky like a well.
Spire-Sight Naga
Creature Spire-Sight Naga A serpent-bodied, green-gold scaled judge of the temple-spires who sees from the highest spire and keeps the court's long word, the spire's feudal, clannish, and most certain eye.
Sonar-Sense Bat Man
Creature Sonar-Sense Bat Man A folded-wing, grey-brown cavern kin who hunts by sonar and keeps the open caverns, the roosts' quick, patient, and most certain eye.
Silver-Spire High Elf
Creature Silver-Spire High Elf A golden-skinned keeper of the silver spires' old, careful magic, patient as the white cliffs and twice as deliberate.
Shovel-Hand Mole Man
Creature Shovel-Hand Mole Man A blind, shovel-handed tunnel-sculptor of the river plain who digs the cleanest tunnels in the deep and ranks the packs by the dig, the delve's quick, patient, and most certain eye.
Shore-Ferry Half-Elf
Creature Shore-Ferry Half-Elf A long-eared, short-lived middle-kin who keeps the ferries and the two oaths, a little elf and a little human and all middle.
Shadow-Word Cat Man
Creature Shadow-Word Cat Man A lean, slate-grey feline kin of the sun-warmth warrens who speaks the shadow word and moves through the dark as if it were a door left open.
Sentence-Carry Serpent Folk
Creature Sentence-Carry Serpent Folk A scaled, marsh-court judge of the coiled towers who carries the coil's sentences and keeps the low coils, the marsh's quick, clannish, and most certain hand.
Secret-Keep Fox Man
Creature Secret-Keep Fox Man A red-amber, mask-marked forest kin of the amber woods who keeps the secrets of the hollow and trades them out at exactly the right price.
Scent-Judge Venom Goblin
Creature Scent-Judge Venom Goblin A fanged, gill-rimmed marsh goblin who judges everything, including you, by scent and marks the warrens with its bitter, judging word.
Root-Cellar Halfling
Creature Root-Cellar Halfling A small, root-cellared halfling of the green hills who tends the deep root-cellars and the hill's oldest stores, the hold's patient, remembering, and most certain eye.
Ring-Tender Shadow Goblin
Creature Ring-Tender Shadow Goblin A nearly-blind goblin of the sunless sinkhole who tends the pale ring-fungus and keeps the hollow's slow light from guttering out.
Pool-Sense Lizard Man
Creature Pool-Sense Lizard Man A scaled, amphibious patient reptilian of the marshes and river deltas who feels the pool-sense and waits for everything, the delta's clannish, territorial, and most certain wait.
Feline-Grace Cat Man
Creature Feline-Grace Cat Man A lean, umber feline kin of the sun-warmth warrens who moves with the feline grace and keeps the open warrens, the tribes' quick, proud, and most certain eye.
Pearl-Carry Merfolk
Creature Pearl-Carry Merfolk A scaled, finned reef-kin of the living coral city who carries the throne's pearls and keeps the low spires, the throne's quick, clannish, and most certain hand.
Peak Gryphon
Creature Peak Gryphon A lion-fleshed, eagle-winged guardian of the single sheer peak, whose silence is broken only by the oath and the word.
Ossuary-Sense Lich
Creature Ossuary-Sense Lich The tall, bone-clad shape of the ossuary — the ribs showing through the pale hide, the hand too long, the whole of it reading as one promise that the ossuary keeps and the anchor will not break.
One-Breath Drake
Creature One-Breath Drake The long, coiled shape of the pit — heavy through the shoulder, the crest long, the amber eyes flat, the whole of it built around one breath that does not come back and one dive that ends the argument.
Oath-Weaver Halfling
Creature Oath-Weaver Halfling A small, root-cellared halfling of the green hills who weaves the old oaths and keeps them, the hill's patient, remembering, and most certain voice.

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