Magical Creature

Magical Creatures are beings both sapient and animalistic whom possess supernatural abilities. Aggressive magical creatures are also known as Nightbreed.

Although Witchbloods, and Altered humans have supernatural abilities they are considered human first and thus generally excluded when talking about magical beings.

## The Old Ones

The Old ones is the name given by the Church of Light to the Daemons and the Faes, which are held as the first attempt by the Creator at creating intelligent life. Although intelligent the old ones are alien in mind and soul, making them dangerous and unpredictable, as such the Church mandate for the people to have no dealings with them.

### Daemon

Daemons are ancient heartless creatures that are said to have been the creator’s First attempt at creating a greater life form, but were found lacking. So daemons were banished to the lifeless wastes of another world, which sometimes intersect with the world of Mortals allowing them to cross over.

Daemons are organized into a terrible brutal hierarchy, where like members of an insect hive all members are born to serve a specific role and freedom and independent thought is inconceivable.

### Fae

The Church holds that the Fae were the second attempt of the Creator to create the world after Daemons were lacking in soul, but the fae was too volatile, shapeless like water. The Fae are an uncanny kind, which cannot be understood, their minds too alien to mankind. Although they may sometimes be amicable or even helpful, they may turn to malefice without a moment's notice.

The Fae follow complex rules of etiquette that are typically hard to understand for mortals, assisting those who follow them while punishing those who make the offense of breaking them even unwittingly.

The Fae have a powerful connection to nature and dwell in the primal world, a world where civilization has not polluted its surface. Fae may travel between worlds at certain places such as mushroom circles, ancient cairns, and groves of trees sacred to their kind.

## Aberrations

Aberrations were once natural beings that have been transformed into dangerous monsters typically by magic, but sometimes through dark sciences.

* Minotaur
* Gorgon
* Aqrabuamelu
* Ogre
* Lamia
* Alp
* Arachne
* Striga: Strigas are a type of aberrations, an artificial witchblood created by a dark magical ritual, this power however comes at a cost turning the person into a monster that must feed on human hearts, preferably that of children. It is said the first Striga was a woman scorned who made a dark pact with fae for revenge.

## Undeads

The Undead are creatures stuck between life and death, unable to find rest. Undeads are either natural or created. Natural undead rise when something holds them back in the land of the living, typically some great injustice or corruption in life. Meanwhile created undeads are raised from their rest by witches to serve their biddings. With the Ninth curse however all who have died since it was cast have risen as undead unless special precautions are taken.

Most undeads continuously lose life force and thus must steal it form the living to keep on going, although witches can use magic to sustain the undead they create without needing victims.

* Zombie: Zombies are the most common type of undead, mindless walking corpses who instinctively attack any living creature they perceive unless commanded by a witch or powerful undead.
* Lich: A Lich is the result of a Witchblood rising back from the dead, unlike most undead Lich retain some of their mental faculties and their ability to wield magic.
* Ghoul: Ghouls are undead that arise then people who have perverted the cycle of life and death die and reanimate, people such as graverobbers, cannibals, and desecrators are most likely to become ghouls. In unlife ghouls are animated by a powerful need for human flesh that drive them mad.
* Unwanted: The Unwanted are undead creatures created from children, particularly infants abandoned to die to the elements. In unlife they desperately seek a mother to care for them and feed them, able to enchant women into loving them.

## Elementals

Elementals are a semi-natural phenomenon that occurs in places where powerful magic forces connect, or after a strong amount of magical energy is unleashed. Elementals are creatures made of normally inanimate manner that gain a form of pseudo-life.

Elementals are not intelligent, but neither are they inherently hostile to others. Elementals will however instinctively defend their home from those who would damage it; such as rock elementals attacking miners, wood elementals fighting with loggers. This can make them pests that hinder and endanger the livelihood of humans.

The Yuani people hold a special position within Yuani animism who see them as sacred manifestation of the world, and seek to be in harmony with them.

## Lycanthrope

Lycanthropes are humans affected by a powerful curse that causes them to transform into monsters and lose their minds. The most common Lycanthropes are Hexwolves, a remnant of the reign of the Wolf Witch over a thousand year into the past, but other rarer lycanthropes exist.

## Witchbeasts

Witchbeasts are animals imbued with magical powers, much like human witchbloods. Witchbeasts are relatively rare and not all are inherently dangerous such as the Phoenix, a magical bird held sacred by the Yuanis.

* Phoenix

## Weirds

Weirds are the result of unstable magic damaging the fabric of the world and leaving a sometimes permanent scar upon the world. Weirds are relatively rare in civilized regions but common within dark places such as the Witch Wastes or the Black Sands Desert

* Thaumivore
* Echos
* Wisp