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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.
Spire-Tuner Lightning Goblin
Creature Spire-Tuner Lightning Goblin A charged, patient goblin of the crystal spires who tunes the spires' resonance and keeps the ridge's stored charge from spilling.
Spell-Carry Lich
Creature Spell-Carry Lich The lean, quick shape of the anchor-line — thin through the ribcage, the hand long and certain, the whole of it built to carry the spell across the ossuary and to spend one word the size of a promise on the stranger who is worth the soul.
Spire-Sense Observer
Creature Spire-Sense 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 a single record bead at the throat. It feels the silence's mood a day before it is broken, and the feeling is not a choice.
Spire-Sight Naga
Creature Spire-Sight Naga A serpent-bodied, green-gold scaled judge of the temple-spires who sees from the highest spire and keeps the court's long word, the spire's feudal, clannish, and most certain eye.
Sonar-Sense Bat Man
Creature Sonar-Sense Bat Man A folded-wing, grey-brown cavern kin who hunts by sonar and keeps the open caverns, the roosts' quick, patient, and most certain eye.
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.
Song-Open Earth Goblin
Creature Song-Open Earth Goblin A stone-shaping goblin of the singing tunnels who opens the mountains by hand and song, the cleanest hand and the oldest voice in the range.
Shovel-Hand Mole Man
Creature Shovel-Hand Mole Man A blind, shovel-handed tunnel-sculptor of the river plain who digs the cleanest tunnels in the deep and ranks the packs by the dig, the delve's quick, patient, and most certain eye.
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.
Shore-Ferry Half-Elf
Creature Shore-Ferry Half-Elf A long-eared, short-lived middle-kin who keeps the ferries and the two oaths, a little elf and a little human and all middle.
Shadow-Word Cat Man
Creature Shadow-Word Cat Man A lean, slate-grey feline kin of the sun-warmth warrens who speaks the shadow word and moves through the dark as if it were a door left open.
Sentence-Carry Serpent Folk
Creature Sentence-Carry Serpent Folk A scaled, marsh-court judge of the coiled towers who carries the coil's sentences and keeps the low coils, the marsh's quick, clannish, and most certain hand.
Secret-Keep Fox Man
Creature Secret-Keep Fox Man A red-amber, mask-marked forest kin of the amber woods who keeps the secrets of the hollow and trades them out at exactly the right price.
Scent-Judge Venom Goblin
Creature Scent-Judge Venom Goblin A fanged, gill-rimmed marsh goblin who judges everything, including you, by scent and marks the warrens with its bitter, judging word.
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.
Sack-Weave Air Goblin
Creature Sack-Weave Air Goblin A light-boned cliff goblin who weaves the footholds' wind-sacks and mends their ropes, the quiet hand that keeps the city aloft.
Root-Cellar Halfling
Creature Root-Cellar Halfling A small, root-cellared halfling of the green hills who tends the deep root-cellars and the hill's oldest stores, the hold's patient, remembering, and most certain eye.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

By Mark

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