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Gem-Appraise Kobold
Creature Gem-Appraise Kobold A small, furnace-scarred tinkerer of the gem-mine who prices every stone by the light and keeps the landlord's rent honest, gem by gem.
Grave-Sense Skeleton
Creature Grave-Sense Skeleton The tall, narrow, white shape — heavy through the ribcage, the head a little too high on the body, the whole of it reading as one word that is waiting for a joint, built to stand in the field and not move.
High-Fang Wolf
Creature High-Fang Wolf The silver wolf of the high country — 70 cm of honour that the orcs keep for the war, and that the war keeps for them.
Innate-Speaker Demon
Creature 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.
Iron-Tusk
Creature 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.
Line-Sworn Hobgoblin
Creature 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.
Leave-Carry Selkie
Creature 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.
Marsh-Toad
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.
Maze-Memory Minotaur
Creature 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.
Memory-Sense Siren
Creature 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.
Mire-Bear
Creature 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.
Mirror-Sense Kelpie
Creature 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.
Moan-Carry Wraith
Creature 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.
Name-Carry Vampire
Creature 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.
Oath-Weight Minotaur
Creature 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.
Pattern-Sight Erudite
Creature 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.
Pit-Sense Leech Folk
Creature 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.
Presence-Carry Dragon Kin
Creature 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.
Pressure-Sense Deep One
Creature 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.
Prismatic Dragons
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.
Rapid-Learning Erudite
Creature 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.
Red Deer
Creature 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.
Ring-Build Kraken
Creature 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.
Roe Deer
Creature 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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