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Height-Sight Drake
Creature Height-Sight Drake The tall, thin shape of the high ledge — light through the shoulder, the crest narrow, the amber eyes wide for the height, the whole of it built to see the pit from the top and to choose, one word at a time, which quarrel is worth the dive.
Hollow-Oak Wolf-Man
Creature Hollow-Oak Wolf-Man A furred forest-kin of the conifers who lives in the carved hollow oaks and keeps the pack as a promise, not a family.
Howl-Keeper Gnoll
Creature Howl-Keeper Gnoll A heavy-jawed, dry-brown hyena-packer of the bone-totem savanna who keeps the howl and leads the pack, the steppe's aggressive, social, and most certain voice.
Map-Keep Mole Man
Creature Map-Keep Mole Man A blind, shovel-handed tunnel-sculptor of the river plain who carries the map in memory and keeps the deep's oldest tunnels, the delve's patient, clannish, and most certain voice.
Mire-Read Bugbear
Creature Mire-Read Bugbear A hulking, club-jawed swamp-ambusher of the mire who reads the standing water by sound and shadow and treats the dry land as a place to avoid.
Oath-Weaver Halfling
Creature Oath-Weaver Halfling A small, root-cellared halfling of the green hills who weaves the old oaths and keeps them, the hill's patient, remembering, and most certain voice.
One-Breath Drake
Creature One-Breath Drake The long, coiled shape of the pit — heavy through the shoulder, the crest long, the amber eyes flat, the whole of it built around one breath that does not come back and one dive that ends the argument.
Ossuary-Sense Lich
Creature Ossuary-Sense Lich The tall, bone-clad shape of the ossuary — the ribs showing through the pale hide, the hand too long, the whole of it reading as one promise that the ossuary keeps and the anchor will not break.
Peak Gryphon
Creature Peak Gryphon A lion-fleshed, eagle-winged guardian of the single sheer peak, whose silence is broken only by the oath and the word.
Pearl-Carry Merfolk
Creature Pearl-Carry Merfolk A scaled, finned reef-kin of the living coral city who carries the throne's pearls and keeps the low spires, the throne's quick, clannish, and most certain hand.
Pool-Sense Lizard Man
Creature Pool-Sense Lizard Man A scaled, amphibious patient reptilian of the marshes and river deltas who feels the pool-sense and waits for everything, the delta's clannish, territorial, and most certain wait.
Ring-Tender Shadow Goblin
Creature Ring-Tender Shadow Goblin A nearly-blind goblin of the sunless sinkhole who tends the pale ring-fungus and keeps the hollow's slow light from guttering out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ancestry-Sense Dragon Kin
Creature Ancestry-Sense Dragon Kin The tall mortal line with the draconic weight in it — narrow-waisted, the shoulders a little broad, the fine scale-patch pale gold at the throat, the whole of it reading as one line that is waiting to be spoken in a tongue the mouth was not built for.
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.
Silver-Spire High Elf
Creature Silver-Spire High Elf A golden-skinned keeper of the silver spires' old, careful magic, patient as the white cliffs and twice as deliberate.
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.
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.
Stormdrinker Lightning Goblin
Creature Stormdrinker Lightning Goblin A charged, reckless goblin of the crystal spires who drinks the storm through the spires' pale blue light and meters the sky like a well.
Surface-Turn Water Goblin
Creature Surface-Turn Water Goblin A gill-rimmed goblin of the drowned cave network who turns to the waterline and trades with the surface, the warrens' only open hand.

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