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Roost-Sense Cockatrice
Creature 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.
Scree-Wolf
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.
Amber-Eye Fox Man
Creature 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.
Anvil-Singer Dwarf
Creature Anvil-Singer Dwarf An iron-skinned deep-dwelling dwarf of the delve who sings the forge-fire and the anvil, the clan's patient, remembering, and most steady voice.
Ash-Crow
Creature Ash-Crow A black crow of the ashfields, glossed blue, with the sharpest eye of the flock and a memory that keeps the hand that feeds it.
Ashen-Reach Human
Creature Ashen-Reach Human A short-lived, endlessly ambitious builder of the old fields and the new towns, who keeps their many oaths and their short, sharp, and very loud lives.
Bargain-Carry Demon
Creature Bargain-Carry Demon The heavy, low, slightly-too-broad shape of the pit, built dense and low with a deep muddy umber skin and fine pale red veins at the temples. Its bargain carries across the pit the way the fire carries across the ash, and the carrying is not a choice.
Bitter-Distill Venom Goblin
Creature Bitter-Distill Venom Goblin A fanged, gill-rimmed marsh goblin who distills the poison of the rust-colored fen and marks the warrens' still air with a bitter, green word.
Bone-Read Gnoll
Creature Bone-Read Gnoll A heavy-jawed, dry-brown hyena-packer of the bone-totem savanna who reads the bones and keeps the low totems, the steppe's aggressive, social, and most certain eye.
Litter-Sense Chimera
Creature Litter-Sense Chimera A three-parted beast of the mosaic crags — lion-front, goat-mid, serpent-tail — who senses the litter and keeps the brood, the crag's pack, territorial, and most certain mouth.
Shade-Sense Wraith
Creature Shade-Sense Wraith The tall, narrow, hollow shape — heavy through the jaw, the eyes hollow and grey, the whole of it reading as one word that is waiting for a soul, built to stand in the moor and not move.
Skin-Keep Selkie
Creature Skin-Keep Selkie A seal-bodied, skin-keeping watcher of the cold coast who keeps the skin and guards the shore, the shore's clannish, watchful, and most certain hide.
Song-Carry Harpy
Creature Song-Carry Harpy A feathered, shrieking aerial raider of the sheer tower who carries the song and keeps the high rings, the spire's feudal, cunning, and most certain voice.
Spire-Sense Harpy
Creature Spire-Sense Harpy A feathered, shrieking aerial raider of the sheer tower who senses the spire and keeps the scream-rings, the spire's feudal, pack, and most certain song.
Sting-Carry Manticore
Creature Sting-Carry Manticore A lion-bodied, scorpion-tailed, bat-winged beast of the bare crag who carries the sting and keeps the high rings, the crag's territorial, cunning, and most certain tail.
Sunlight-Sensitivity Dark Elf
Creature Sunlight-Sensitivity Dark Elf The elven line in the deep, tall and narrow-waisted, with skin the deep violet to a near-black and eyes that glow in the dark. The surface light is a wound to it — the wound that keeps the deep honest — and the sensitivity is not a choice.
Superior-Darkness Dark Elf
Creature Superior-Darkness Dark Elf The elven line in the deep, tall and narrow-waisted, with skin the deep violet to a near-black and a network of fine, pale violet veins at the temples. It is at home in the dark the way the surface is at home in the light, and the dark never burns it.
Echo-Read Bat Man
Creature Echo-Read Bat Man A folded-wing, grey-brown cavern kin who reads the echo and keeps the dark, the cavern's patient, territorial, and most certain voice.
Ember-Spear Fire Goblin
Creature Ember-Spear Fire Goblin A small volcanic goblin who breeds in the heat and fights with an ember-tipped spear, treating the caldera's slow magma lake as a hearth to be kept.
Fang-Warden Ice Goblin
Creature Fang-Warden Ice Goblin A thick-necked goblin of the glacier fissure who wards the ice fangs and keeps the crevasse's deep passages from collapsing in the long freeze.
Glimmerwood Fae
Creature Glimmerwood Fae A beautiful, cruel kin of the shifting forest, bound by promise, for a promise kept is the only thing they respect.
Grove-Sense Bear Man
Creature Grove-Sense Bear Man A massive, deep-brown furred kin of the deep forest who feels the grove-sense and keeps the open ground, the hold's patient, territorial, and most certain eye.
Hall-Keep Earth Goblin
Creature Hall-Keep Earth Goblin A stone-shaping goblin of the singing tunnels who keeps the geode hall and its pale light, the range's memory and its most patient voice.
Hearth-Keeper Fire Goblin
Creature Hearth-Keeper Fire Goblin A small, patient volcanic goblin who tends the caldera's magma lake as a hearth, keeping the fire banked for the pack through every slow season.

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