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Creature Hill-Sense Satyr The goat-legged, low, heavy shape of the vine-tangled hill, with a thick brown coat and a pair of true, curling horns in bone-white. It feels the hill's mood a day before the party ends, and the feeling is not a choice.

Creature Melt-Sense Ooze The low, wide, wet shape — heavy through the surface, with no head at all, only a slow, deliberate rise and fall, the amber gone dull at the edge of the melt-ring, the whole of it reading as one word that is waiting for a meal.

Creature Vine-Sight Satyr The goat-legged, low, heavy shape of the vine-tangled hill, with a thick brown coat and a pair of true, curling horns in bone-white. It sees the vine the way the hill sees the guest — and the seeing is not a choice.

Creature Watch-Eye Crow Man A black-plumed, watch-marked carrion kin of the great tree-city who keeps the watch and records every word, the roost's curious, clannish, and most certain voice.

Creature Web-Set Bugbear A hulking, club-jawed swamp-ambusher of the mire who sets the trap and plans the kill, considering the swamp a debt the water owes them.

Creature Wet-Sight Slime The low, small, wet shape of the dripping cavern, the one that sees in the dark the way a human sees in the light. Its green runs clear and deliberate, its lower surface is a deep sea-black, and the bone-white edge is the cleanest line in the ring.

Creature Wild Boar The bristled wild boar of the barrens, a barrel of muscle under a grey-brown coat, with a tusk that grows through the jaw and a charge that splits the earth.

Creature Wind-Lash Air Goblin A light-boned cliff goblin who lashes its whole body to the wind with rope and wind-sack, treating the ground as a temporary inconvenience.

Creature Wind-Rider Vantari The Vantari that goes — the bird of the open, the messenger, the scout, and the hunter of the far ground, who carries the roost out into the whole of the sky.

Creature Word-Hold Golem The blocky, heavy, deliberate shape of the forge, built from fitted blocks of dark grey granite with a pair of small, deliberate points of pale amber light where the eyes should be. It holds its binding word against the wind, the water, and the doubt, and the holding is not a choice.

Creature Word-Keep Rat Man A clever, grey-furred underwarren kin who keeps the word of the colony and ranks its citizens by whose secret is truest, the colony's patient, exact, and most certain voice.

Creature Tinker-Sight Gnome A brass-rimmed workshop gnome of the hollows who sees through every machine and keeps the machinery of the clan running, one repair at a time.

Creature True-Flight Angel The tall, narrow, slightly-too-clean line of the highest plane, with a pair of true wings folded at the back in a soft ivory to pale gold range and a pair of large, clear pale gold eyes. Its wings are not a tool but a statement, and the statement is the flight.

Creature Tunnel-Carry Rat Man A clever, grey-furred underwarren kin who carries the colony's goods and its people through the tunnels, the underwarren's quick, patient, and most certain eye.

Creature Vein-Reader Dwarf An iron-skinned deep-dwelling dwarf of the delve who reads the deep-veins by the dark and the sound of the stone, the clan's patient, remembering, and most careful eye.

Creature Venom-Sense Naga A serpent-bodied, green-gold scaled judge of the temple-spires who feels the venom and keeps the low spires, the spire's feudal, territorial, and most certain fang.

Creature Vent-Keeper Ice Goblin A thick-necked goblin of the glacier fissure who tends the hot vents that break through the ice, treating the cold as a room they chose.

Creature Trap-Goblin The goblin that builds the trap the rest of the warren eats by — small, patient, and the only beast that considers a spring-loaded jaw a form of art.

Creature Vigil-Carry Revenant The lean, quick shape of the oath-line — thin through the jaw, the hand long and certain, the whole of it built to carry the oath across the gate and to spend one word the size of a promise on the stranger who is worth the soul.

Creature Current-Carry Lizard Man A scaled, amphibious patient reptilian of the marshes and river deltas who carries the delta's goods and people through the current, the delta's quick, clannish, and most certain hand.

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.

Creature Dark-Sight Basilisk The thin, quick shape of the deep dark — small through the ridge, the eye wide and pale, the whole of it built to see what the stone will not light, and to spend a look the size of a whisper.

Creature Dark-Sight Observer The tall, narrow, robed shape of the silent city, faceless under the hood, with a pale robe the color of old spire-stone and pale eyes that see the dark the way the surface sees the light. It sees the dark the way the surface sees the light, and the seeing is not a choice.

Creature Dawn-Chorus High Elf A golden-skinned singer of the silver city who holds the dawn in their voice, keeping the city's spell-songs steady through every turn of the tide.

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