Other Creatures in Arilyan

Arilyan isn’t just for fantastical closed species. In fact, it’s a host to an array of other species and megafauna that interact with our grans on a regular basis. Some are food others are friends, but they share the world and exist as NPCs in this world.

They aren’t as intelligent as the creatures of Arilayn, being ignored by the Arilyan pantheon, they’re very much like humans. Maia didn’t expect them to survive as well as they have and now live their own lives apart from granthrows, while occasionally interacting with them.

## Megafauna

Arilyan includes, but isn’t limited to

* Mammoths
* Giant deer/Irish Elk
* Cave Bear
* Giant Kangaroo
* Sabertooth Tiger
* Giant Ground Sloths

## Modern Creatures

Any creature living in our world exists in Arilyan. While not all will live on the main continent, they do exist and can wind up here on the mainland if brought over by humans (which happens more often than you think).

## Relationship with other Species

Most, if not all, animals live their own complex, NPC lives, apart from granthrows. Prey animals, and smaller creatures, can in no way understand granthrows unless blessed by the goddess of nature. Predators, on the other hand, have a vague understanding of the granthrow language but there is a bit of a barrier/learning curve. A granthrow and a sabertooth tiger could have a crude conversation, but they have a hard time understanding one another on more complex ideas.

## Companions

### Companion Lore

As her children grew, Maia came to realize that some of her creations have deep connections with other species. In efforts to strengthen these bonds, she allowed the goddess of nature to bless some of these creatures to talk with all her children. Now, very few select creatures seek out Maia's creations to spend time with, in hopes of becoming a lifetime companion.

### "Regular" Companions

Regular companions are creatures that exist in our world that are also found in Arilyan. Every character gets one small companion, that you can design yourself. These creatures must be the size of an average house cat, or smaller, and can be literally any species, so long as they fit in that size range.

They can talk to every other species, but only because they've been blessed by the nature goddess, Tempest, unless they're birds, in which case, birds are just special, and can talk to everyone anyhow.

### Kumppani

Kumppani are creatures that don't exist in our world that are generally open, semi-open, or semi closed species. They're either owned by bee, or owned by other members in the group. These species currently include....

* Tonttu

At this time we are NOT accepting new kumppani species donations.

### Purchasing Kumppani

Read more about how to get a Kumppani in the kumppani-token-info channel on the discord.

### Past Tonttu

If you have a past Tonttu who's traits are no longer on the sheet, your tonttu now has Exotic traits at no cost to you.

If your Tonttu has traits that went down in rarity, you can get a 50 pinecone refund for every trait that went down in value. Please fill out the form in the tonttu-refund-center channel to get your pinecone refund.

## Birds

Birds are the one exception to the “non-speaking” rule. Birds are the carriers of language and are messengers for those they deem as “worthy” to speak to. They’re a mix of tricksters, magic workers, and wisdom holders, and you’ll never know if they’re telling you the truth to be helpful, or lying just for a laugh.

They do enjoy time around the species of Arilyan, however, and many will make lifelong friends with their companions, and see themselves as the owner, and their granthrow creatures as their pet.