Miscellaneous Creatures (Witches of Midgard-verse)

The following is the list of miscellaneous creatures featured in *Little Witch Academia: Witches of Midgard*.

## List of Creatures

### Devilclaw

A legendary red bear ghost and arguably the deadliest ghost ever faced by Wild Hunter community. It has strong tolerance against standard weaponry crafted by Wild Hunters with its only known weakness being weapons made of Silverfang Stone and once responsible for a tragedy during the annual Wild Hunt during Golden Magic Age. Though it eventually banished to the land of the dead, Devilclaw made its return during a ghost outbreak at Horgsholt Ruins only to be soundly defeated by Helviti.

### Dvergar

Primordial ancestors of dwarves native at Svartalfheim, earliest generation of **Dvergar** came to existence as maggots who crawled through remains of the primordial Jötunn Ymir until Odin, Vili, and Ve evolved these creatures into short humanoids they best known nowadays. Unlike mostly human-like modern dwarves and their cousins such as gnomes, dvergar displayed insectoid features which vary between individual members of their kind that naturally attributed to their nature as evolved maggots. Other than that, they mostly true to their mythological accounts such as being accomplished magic blacksmiths who crafted Gods of Asgard their supernatural weapons and other items (ex. Thor's Mjölnir and Odin's Gungnir) and adopted subterranean lifestyle where they built labyrinth-like underground cities complete with workshops.

It was widely believed that technological and magical advancements Thapoli achieved being partly attributed to its earliest witch-blacksmiths and wizard-blacksmiths learned some of dvergar's crafts via. trade. Other beings in Nine Realms such as storm weasels of Jötunheim and Jötnar also learned craftsmanship magic from these creatures in the same way. Neither of them are able to match dvergar's prowess in the craft however.

### Muspel Eel

A species of magical eels commonly found at Muspelheim. They evolved from European Eels Fire Jötnar introduced to their home realm long ago, growing over 60 feet long and developing the ability to spit out saliva which turn into fire upon contact with air, latter which made possible by blaze glands in their throats. Despite their ferocity, Muspel Eel's meat is just as edible as eels from Midgard. This, coupled with their blaze glands being necessary material to create Dwarven Fire (special fire which endows things forged with it magical properties), saw these creatures bred by various races in Nine Realms like cattle, Dvergar in particular as they need their glands to create and sustain Dwarven Fire in their disposal.

### Orochi

The most fearsome of the ancient creatures roaming the land of the rising sun. Orochis are a race of vicious drakes resembling Japanese Dragon but with eight heads and eight tails (four longer main tails and shorter, whip like secondary tails) as well as alleged to be the spawn of the mythical Yamata-no-Orochi. According to Akko, her ancestors killed many of these beasts due to the threat they pose on unsuspecting villages. Akko herself initially skeptical about their existence even with her grandfather Burai showed her one of the monster's skull which stored in their family shrine, but following the encounter with Fafnir, she began to wonder whether Orochis really exist. Nowadays, Orochis were believed to be extinct, but in the light of Yggdrasil's restoration, a batch of Orochis resurfaced, prompting Thapoli to quickly relocate them to a remote island far from Japanese shoreline. Although, one of Orochis was captured by Erik The Ageless under Lara's request so she can use it against Nine New Witches.

### Spirit Minions

Spirit minions are undead beings proposed to be ghosts altered in some ways by an undead lord into his thralls to carry out his bidding. Many of them encountered by Akko and co. over the course of their exploration at the seven regions accessible via Sealed Door of Horologium Chamber.

As with other monsters, they are shown to be aggressive, though it's not elaborated whether ones encountered by the young witches are still working for the undead lord whom converted them, had become independent undeads for quite some time and encountered by chance, or both. Hollows however, are mostly (if not all of them) independent spirit minions since they are not mentioned working for any undead lords unlike Invisible Assassins according to Strange Notebook. One of the Hollows even shown assisting Molly and the girls arranging books at the library following the sealing of Horologium Chamber by Ursula, though the said Hollow is actually a custom-made Support Bot constructed by Molly herself.

There are two types of spirit minions:

#### Hollows

Hollows are a type of spirit minion that resembles a cartoonish ghost with a gray ghostly tail, large sleeves that covering their hands, and a hood that obscured their face save for a pair of glowing yellow eyes.

#### Invisible Assassin

Invisible Assassins resemble Hollows a bit, but with black body, exposed skeletal hands, and what appeared to be a bull skull as the head (though the said skull might actually some sort of mask both to conceal their face and showing their allegiance to undead lord who converted them).

### Valkyrie Spirits

The beings Valkyrie Corps. themed after are a host of female spiritual entities who served both Odin and Freyja, tasked to decide which fallen warriors (be it normal humans or magic users) will join the Allfather in Valhalla, Asgard, as part of his Einherjar army. Through the lore of Hildr and Ölrún/Alruna, two named Valkyrie spirits, they were proposed to be deceased women whose bravery in life earned them Odin's favor and thus became his helping battle-maidens endowed with special powers to carry out their task. In the aftermath of the Ragnarök, Freya, under the behest of her fallen husband, set these battle-maidens free since they have completed their task, allowing them to pass on.

According to a legend that surrounded Valkyrie Corps.' foundation, at least one Valkyrie Spirit chose to stay in Midgard for a time being. During her time there, she met a Thapolian witch-blacksmith named Ingrid who struggled to find the perfect way to improve her fellow witches' combat abilities. The spirit related her account to the witch-blacksmith, from the moment Odin appointed her to be one of his helping spirits to the day Freya relieved her from her duty. She also reassured the witch-blacksmith not to give up as her contribution will greatly benefit her people and importantly, allowing them to become better protectors more than the Gods of Asgard could ever been. Afterwards, she moved on to the afterlife, but not before left behind her shield as a parting gift. The encounter proved to leave a lasting impact in the witch-blacksmith, as not only the Valkyrie Spirit's encouragement allowed the witch-blacksmith to succeed in developing special suits of armors for her fellow witches to use in their most challenging battles, but also themed said armors along with the coven who use them after Valkyrie Spirits themselves.

### Wagandea

    An immense, legendary tree unique to the Arcturus Forest. It is depicted in many ancient slabs, and legend says that no one has ever reached its summit. The tree itself has rather huge leaves and a thorny trunk that extends endlessly into the sky in a spiral.

When its flowers bloom, they release a pollen which highly toxic and it is said to cause a severe allergic reaction to witches, taking away their ability to fly and use magic. While this isn't bad enough, its effect on Pomokai Holoholonas stated to be worse: Slight contact with even smallest amount of the pollen will cause their bodies to quickly rot into nothingness. The pollen clears in a month on average, but the time it stays ranges from weeks to, in very rare cases, even several years.

Because of its dangerous nature, Thapoli developed a device to accurately predict when the flowers of Wagandea tree start to bloom and even doing their best to aid Croix in developing the antidote, partly out of concern that Naglfar or other evil organizations may intended to weaponize the tree's pollen.