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Race Drakes Smaller, less magical cousins of the true dragons. Proud, territorial, and frequently mistaken for dragons by people who regret it.

Race Deep Ones Pale gill-bellied folk of the pressure vaults. They surface only to drag, and they consider the pull a promise the deep keeps.

Race Cockatrices Crested, serpent-tailed fowl of the roost. A hundred eggs in a single nest, each one a threat. The mother decides which hatch.

Race Chimeras Three-parted beasts of the mosaic crags. Lion-front, goat-mid, serpent-tail — each part a different animal, and the mother decides which.

Race Basilisks Scaled, gaze-wielders of the cavern. A look is a weapon, and the cavern answers the look.

Creature Brook-Salmon The great silver fish of the deep brook — 30 kg of the toll's own meat, and the only prey in the world that the trolls consider an honour to take.

Creature Bridge-Spawn The young of the toll-trolls — grey-green and slow to anger, near-impossible to kill, and the only beast in the world that collects its own toll.

Race Trolls Regenerating brutes of the deep woods and mountain passes. Slow to anger, near-impossible to kill.

Race Manticores Lion-bodied, scorpion-tailed, bat-winged beasts of the sting crags. The sting is the word, and the crag answers the sting.

Race Skeletons Animated dead. Mindless thralls or willed revenants — the bones that refuse to rest.

Race Satyrs Goat-legged revelers of the vine-tangled hills. Wine, pan-pipes, and mischief — the party ends when the vine-queen says so.

Race Wraiths Shade-born, hollow-eyed stalkers of the moor. They do not touch, they do not rest, and they consider the moan a promise the moor keeps.

Race Venom Goblins Fanged, gill-rimmed marsh goblins who distill the poison of their fen and judge everything, including you, by scent.

Race Vampires Pale, fanged night-lords of the crypt. They do not age, they do not die, and they consider the ledger of blood a promise the crypt keeps.

Race Observers Eyes in the dark. Faceless, robed, and endlessly patient — they record everything, and they consider the record a promise the dark keeps.

Creature Scree-Wolf The thin grey wolf of the ruined hills — the goblin's partner in the long hunt, whose screech is the warren's horn and whose patience is the goblin's own.

Creature Prismatic Dragons Rare hybrid dragons born of two or more elemental dragon bloodlines. Each carries the power of multiple elements — and, in the oldest telling, the power of several gods, and can grow to a size the eye does not measure. The first prismatic dragon broke the coast; since then they are forbidden.

Creature Marsh-Toad The copper-eyed toad of the deep marsh — 30 cm of patience that the ogres keep for the drip, and that the drip keeps for them.

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