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Innate-Speaker Demon
The heavy, low, slightly-too-broad shape of the pit, built dense and low with a network of fine, pale red veins at the temples that glow when a dark word is spoken. It speaks its dark magic without preparation, with its hands, at any time, and the speaking is the whole of the bargain.
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Iron-Tusk
The giant boar of the deep barrens, a beast of eight hands with a bristle coat of iron-grey and a single great tusk that curves like a scythe.
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Line-Sworn Hobgoblin
An iron-skinned goblin soldier of the bastion who holds the drill-line, for whom a formation held steady is a prayer and a word kept.
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Leave-Carry Selkie
A seal-bodied, skin-keeping watcher of the cold coast who carries the shore's leaves and keeps the low shore, the shore's quick, clannish, and most certain hand.
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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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Maze-Memory Minotaur
A horned, labyrinthine keeper of the black-stone maze who remembers the maze and walks the corridors blind, the labyrinth's clannish, honor-bound, and most certain turn.
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Memory-Sense Siren
A vocal, grey-plumed coast-kin of the broken cliffs who senses the memory and keeps the low cliffs, the coast's patient, exact, and most certain voice.
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Mire-Bear
A sleek black bear of the bogs and cold streams, with a cat-like face, short claws, and a paddling stroke that keeps it under the dark water.
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Mirror-Sense Kelpie
A horse-shaped, water-bound reader of the mirror-still bog who senses the mirror and keeps the mirror-rings, the bog's solitary, cunning, and most certain lure.
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Moan-Carry Wraith
The lean, quick shape of the moor — thin through the jaw, the shade long, the whole of it built to carry the moan across the moor and to spend a soul the size of a whisper on the stranger who is worth the shade.
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Name-Carry Vampire
The lean, quick shape of the debt-line — thin through the jaw, the fang long and certain, the whole of it built to carry the debt across the crypt and to spend a bite the size of a whisper on the stranger who is worth the name.
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Oath-Weight Minotaur
A horned, labyrinthine keeper of the black-stone maze who weighs the oath and keeps the high corridors, the labyrinth's clannish, social, and most certain hand.
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Pattern-Sight Erudite
The tall, lean, deliberate shape of the scriptorium, with a face that is almost a question, and a pair of pale silver-grey eyes that read the pattern before the page is turned. It sees the shape of the answer a day before the ink is dry, and the seeing is not a choice.
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Pit-Sense Leech Folk
A pale, quick parasitic marsh-kin of the blood pits who senses the pit and keeps the ledger, the pit's clannish, shy, and most certain bite.
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Presence-Carry Dragon Kin
The heavy-jawed line of the moor — broad through the shoulder, the fine scale-patch deep umber along the spine, the whole of it reading as one word that does not need to be finished, because the room already knows it is being said.
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Pressure-Sense Deep One
A pale, gill-bellied deep-kin of the pressure vaults who senses the pressure and keeps the low vaults, the vault's clannish, shy, and most certain pull.
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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.
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Rapid-Learning Erudite
The tall, lean, deliberate shape of the scriptorium, with a face that is almost a question, and a pair of pale silver-grey eyes that hold the new page a moment longer than a page should be held. It learns the skill in a day the way a human learns it in a season, and the learning is not a choice.
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Red Deer
The great red deer of the open moor, russet coat in summer, iron-grey in winter, crowned with a broad palmate antler that the old world measured by the beam.
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Ring-Build Kraken
A trench leviathan of the deep, 91.44 m of tentacle and madness, who builds the ring and keeps the high coil, the coil's solitary, territorial, and most certain hand.
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Roe Deer
A small, watchful red-brown deer of the forest edge, with a white rump-flash and a short V-shaped antler that drops every winter.
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Roost-Sense Cockatrice
A crested, serpent-tailed fowl of the bare cliff roost who senses the roost and keeps the hundred-egg nest, the roost's territorial, aggressive, and most certain hiss.
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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.
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Amber-Eye Fox Man
A red-amber, mask-marked forest kin of the amber woods who reads the amber-light and the faces in it, the hollow's cunning, social, and most certain eye.
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