Bestiary

This article is an unofficial repository of monsters and creatures found in the Ascension Academy setting for the Ascension Academy RP. It lists the creature, links to the relevant pages, provides a brief description, and includes a D&D Style art piece created by Conf.
==Bestiary==
===Ranks===
S - This deals with worldly threats, with a high guaranteed chance of death.
A - This deals with continental threats, with a major chance of death.
B - This deals with major threats to multiple regions, with a high chance of death.
C - This rank deals with regional threats, with a moderate chance of death.
D - This rank deals with local threats, with a smaller chance of death
=Plant Creatures =
===Twig Blight: Rank D===
Twig Blights are tiny and feisty creatures. Spawn of the Gulthias Tree, they are hardly a threat alone. However in small packs or when accompanied by a Thorn Blight or Thorn Sap, they can be quite dangerous. Their primary strategy is to leap at a target and wear them down, inflicting bleeding with their shard claw-like fingers.
Also see: Gulthias Tree, Plant Creatures
===Thorn Blight: Rank D===
Thorn Blights are tall humanoid creatures, footsoldiers of the Gulthias Tree. They have smoother bark 'skin' when compared to the smaller Twig Blights, and despite appearances they are quite fast and agile, the wood around their joints bending naturally. Their form is modeled after a knight in armor, with several dozen thorns and spikes jutting from the helm, pauldrons, and gauntlets. Those cut with their spikes are injected with a mild neurotoxin that numbs the victim and makes them sleepy. They are also capable to ejecting their spikes at high speeds in a large AoE blast even after death, until the head is removed from the body.
Also see: Gulthias Tree
=Constructs =
===Darkness Soldier: Rank B===
Darkness Soldiers (unofficial name) are large hulking beasts. They are made from stone in a gruesome ritual involving many corpses. They are, as their name suggests, the footsoldiers of the Darkness itself and are incredibly powerful. They grow in strength in the months after their creation, with even 'young' Soldiers being capable of doing battle with the Teachers of Ascension Academy. At full strength, the Teachers were unable to fell even a single one during the Return to Camp Cari mission. They wield massive weapons of an unknown metal, easily weighting in at hundreds of pounds each.
Also see: The Darkness
=Undead =
==Crypt Skeleton: Rank D==
The Crypt Skeleton is a type of undead found in the Crypts under Fort Cari. These undead posed a significant risk to the students of Ascension during the Camp Cari Mission in Year 1, being responsible for the death of Cari Cuddlefish, whom the camp and later the fort are named in memory of. They are moderately armored with a chestplate, wrist guards, and pauldrons, and are able to tank a few hits because of this. They are often armed in mixed kit, ranging from swords and shields, to axes, waraxes, and crossbows. During the Camp Cari Mission in Year 1 they were being summoned and maintained by the Dryad using the March of the Dead, a powerful and new artefact. During the Return to Camp Cari mission the undead once again made themselves a threat, being summoned and maintained by modified Keystone Shards left behind from the Year 1 mission.
Also see: Undead: Bindings of Flesh and Bones, Camp Cari Mission, Return to Camp Cari
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