Creature

**Creatures** encompass all living beings throughout *Thray*.

## Creature Types

### Aberration

Aberrations are utterly alien beings. Many of them have innate magical abilities drawn from the creature's alien mind rather than the mystical forces of the world

### Beasts

Beasts are nonhumanoid creatures that are a natural part of the fantasy ecology. Some of them have magical powers, but most are unintelligent and lack any society or language.

### Celestial

Celestials are creatures native to the Upper Planes. Many of them are the servants of deities, employed as messengers or agents in the mortal realm and throughout the planes. Celestials are good by nature, so the exceptional celestial who strays from a good alignment is a horrifying rarity.

### Construct

Constructs are made, not born. Some are programmed by their creators to'follow a simple set of instructions, while others are imbued with sentience and capable of independent thought.

### Dragon

Dragons are large reptilian creatures of ancient origin and tremendous power. True dragons are highly intelligent and have innate magic. Also in this category are creatures distantly related to true dragons, but less powerful, less intelligent, and less magical.

### Elemental

Elementals are creatures native to the elemental planes. Some creatures of this type are little more than animate masses of their respective elements. Others have biological forms infused with elemental energy.

### Fey

Fey are magical creatures closely tied to the forces of nature. They dwell in twilight groves and misty forests.

### Fiend

Fiends are creatures of wickedness. Evil priests and mages sometimes summon fiends to the material world to do their bidding. If an evil celestial is a rarity, a good fiend is almost inconceivable.

### Giant

Giants tower over humans and their kind. They are humanlike in shape, though some have multiple heads or deformities.

### Humanoid

Humanoids are the main peoples of Thray, both civilized and savage, including humans and a tremendous variety of other species. They have language and culture, few if any innate magical abilities (though most humanoids can learn spellcasting), and a bipedal form.

### Monstrosity

Monstrosities are monsters in the strictest sensefrightening creatures that are not ordinary, not truly natural, and almost never benign. Some are the results of magical experimentation gone awry, and others ,are the product-of terrible curses. They defy categorization, and in some sense serve as a catch-all category for creatures that don't fit into any other type.

### Ooze

Oozes are gelatinous creatures that rarely have a fixed shape. They are mostly subterranean, dwelling in caves and dungeons and feeding on refuse, carrion, or creatures unlucky enough to get in their way.

### Plant

Plants in this context are vegetable creatures, not ordinary flora. Most of them are ambulatory, and some are carnivorous. Fungal creatures also fall into this category.

### Undead

Undead are once-living creatures brought to a horrifying state of undeath through the practice of necromantic magic or some unholy curse. Undead include walking corpses, as well as bodiless spirits.