Books:Greg Keyes Novels/Creatures

Many creatures appear in The Infernal City and Lord of Souls, some new and some old.

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:Annalines are creatures from the Sump on Umbriel that get used as an ingredient in its kitchens.

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:Antelopes with twisted horns appear in Hircine's realm.

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:Colin hears a barn owl in the Imperial City. 

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:A type of fish found in the sump of Umbriel. When Annaïg's poison works on the city they barely react to Glim. 

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:Annaïg notices a boar being prepared in the kitchens of Umbriel.

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:Carrion scorps are creatures found in the Sump of Umbriel that are known to feed on the bodies of the dead.

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:Catfish is used as an ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel.

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:A type of parasite found on Umbriel. Toel thinks of this when Annaïg tries to explain the concept of pregnancy. 

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:Attrebus hears the calls of coots upon returning to Cyrodiil from Vile's realm, and it sounds like home to him. 

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:Crocodiles live around Lilmoth. Annaïg believes that there is a were-crocodile around, but Mere-Glim points out that normal crocodiles could make the same tracks.

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:Attrebus hears the calls of curlews upon returning to Cyrodiil from Vile's realm, and it sounds like home to him. 

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:A type of clam from the Sump on Umbriel that gets used as an ingredient in its kitchens.

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:Fruth tells Attrebus that deer are one of the creatures hunted in Ensleth Valley.

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:Annaïg spots some dreugh on the ground, fleeing from Umbriel.

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:Fruth tells Attrebus that elk are one of the creatures hunted in Ensleth Valley.

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:Attrebus sees fireflies in County Bravil.

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:Mere-Glim witnesses a fish-monger selling flounder in Lilmoth.

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:Attrebus hears frogs singing in County Bravil.

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:A creature found in Elsweyr, though nothing else is known about it. Sul tries to get himself and Attrebus out of trouble by saying that they were a mile off the main road looking for a flock of greems because Attrebus had never seen one, rather than telling the truth: that they were bringing moon sugar to Khajiit.

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:Chef Toel creates a meal course for Lord Irrel using hare.

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:Hedgehogs are one of the many things used as an ingredient in the kitchens of Umbriel; in one meal they are seasoned with eucalyptus.

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:Hobs are hairless monkey-like creatures used as assistants to the chefs on Umbriel. They are long-limbed, have very long, thin, delicate fingers, a huge toothless mouth and large green eyes in a goblinesque face, and very simple language skills. Annaïg names her first Hob "Luc" and her second "Dimple".

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:Horkers are three-tusked walruses found on the island of Solstheim. In Sathil, Attrebus claims that he is a naturalist and that he wants to study creatures such as the horker, which he had seen on the nearby beach.

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:A type of barnacle native to the seas around Lilmoth: dark green, and the size and shape of a large shark tooth. Mere-Glim finds them growing in the sump of Umbriel. 

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:A clamlike creature from Umbriel, used as a cooking ingredient.

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:Ilzheven mentions a bamboo grove where larkins sang.

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:A viper from Black Marsh.  Its venom is fatal to most beings; Argonians, however, are resistant to it, and occasionally seek it out as an ecstasy-providing drug. Annaïg uses it when cooking.

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:A type of creature hunted in Ensleth Valley alongside elk and deer.

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:Nickfish are silver-colored fish found in the sump of Umbriel. They are a food of sessile crabs.

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:Attrebus hears nightjars in County Bravil.

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:A creature from the sump of Umbriel, with buttery-tasting meat. Slyr gives Annaïg a biscuit made with it, and Fhena asks Mere-Glim to bring her some for use in the kitchen she works in.

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:A creature from the sump of Umbriel that gets used as an ingredient in its kitchens.

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:As Colin eats a meal on a roof, pigeons try to steal his food.

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:An edible type of fish. Annaïg's father has some of the salted meat at his house.

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:A featureless wormlike creature found in the sump of Umbriel. Whenever a person on Umbriel dies, the Ingenium calls a proform down to it and gives it a soul, and the proform attaches to the wall of the sump and grows into a person.

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:A type of eel found in Lilmoth; there are ones in the canal that have been trained to hunt Argonians swimming there, but a skooma smuggler avoids them by rubbing himself with eel-slime.

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:Scamps are used as assistants to the chefs on Umbriel for hot work, because heat does not bother them.

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:Sea-Drakes are immense fish found in the sea around Black Marsh. They are described as being "like a crocodile, but with paddles instead of legs".

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:Sessile crabs live on the floor of the sump of Umbriel. They are described as having squat, thorny bodies, with venomous claws on the end of twenty-foot-long yellow and viridian tentacles.

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:Shearteeth are a type of fish found in the Sump on Umbriel. They have a "maw full of teeth", they can reach at least fifteen feet long, have a long long whip-like tail, dual swimming fins on the underside, "teeth that would shame a shark", and a tough hide. They are usually non-aggressive but will attack someone if the sump considers them a threat. "Sheartooth loin" is harvested by Skraw for the kitchens of Umbriel; Annaïg received some (among other things) from a Skraw working for Glim, and Glim himself later ate a sheartooth steak.

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:Shines are wispy yellow airborne creatures, a harmless cousin of the will-o'-wisp. They are seen in the Old Imperial Quarter of Lilmoth.

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:Used as an ingredient in the kitchens of Tamriel.

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:A type of anemone found in the Sump on Umbriel. They have stingers, and because Mere-Glim's scales protected him from them, he took over the job of collecting them.

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:A creature from Elsweyr, said to be better in the desert than horses.

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:Soul-spinners are creatures of Umbriel, responsible for harvesting souls.  They catch souls in their lines, and then the larva fly down to the prey. The larvae are moth-like and roughly as big as a person, with a round black head that only contains a needle.  They are six-legged, and each leg ends in a similar needle.  When they fly down to Nirn, they become ethereal and leave a silvery thread behind.

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:Snapadders are a type of snake. Annaïg uses the venom, which is bright green in color, in a dish as part of the cooking competition for the lords of Umbriel. 

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:Trogfish are a type of fish found in Black Marsh. Mere-Glim would dive for them when he and Annaïg went to the levee at Yor-Tiq.

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:Hircine's drivers are were-bears: one in its human form looks like a massive albino Nord with blue tattoos and in beast form looks like "something between a man and a bear". 

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:Attrebus hears whippoorwills in County Bravil. 

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:Wisperills are luminescent films which float through the air in the realm of the Hist. They perform slow, colorful, aerial dances in the air. They were named by Mere-Glim and Fhena when Umbriel is brought to the realm.

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:A type of worm found on Umbriel, known to be a parasite. Toel thinks of this when Annaïg tries to explain the concept of pregnancy.