Creatures of Arholt

#### **Dragons**

The first sentient beings that Jaekka created. They are her children, and each one of them represents a quality that Jaekka considers essential for a good being to have. Dragons have extremely powerful souls, and can warp reality around themselves in a way that no other beings can.

#### **Humans**

The first of Jaekka's sentient creations, not including the Dragons. They are neither essential nor immortal, and after seeing the angst that humans experienced when faced by their own mortality, Jaekka chose not to create any more sentient creatures, to spare them this unpleasant part of existence.

#### **Graeoln**

Formerly a small colony of humans, morphed by a chroma into moth-like creatures. They changed slowly at first, but eventually were classified as their own race. They behave somewhat moth-like, and their fascination with bright and glowy objects has lead them to worship the sun and moon, although neither celestial body holds any proven power.

#### **Arrak**

Unlike the Graeoln, the Arrak did not morph over time, but were transformed all at once into a people of half-dogs, half-humans. Considerably larger and stronger than normal humans, they were transformed by the blightmage Dryvenn the Hound in an effort to drive invading forces out of Arrix.

#### **Drakes**

Servants of Iganash, baptised in his dragonfire. Their flesh melts away and is replaced by scales, and they are imbued with his essence, binding themselves to him. A common question people ask receive is whether or not these servants are free.They are—Iganash does not force them to do anything—but remember that they are, in part, him; their motives are the same.

#### **Tai’ak**

A race of sentient plant people, imbued by the magic of the Verdant Star. Adept farmers, they melded the local wildlife to their needs and quickly became a dominant force within the Blooming Bay.

### Magical and Enchanted Creatures:

#### **Golem**

Golems are robots designed to complete human labour, animated by magic. When this magic is exposed directly to natural magic (chromas), golems can become sentient and fully independent.

#### **Automaton**

Usually they're enchanted objects that carry out simple tasks for the ones who enchanted them. However with today's goings-on, some automatons have become a bit more... autonomous, and have wandered off and started their own lives. Fascinating, no?

#### **Bot**

Another name for automatons, although some self-aware automatons find the term insulting. An interesting conundrum, don't you think?

#### **Avatar**

Avatars are extensions of a subject’s will into a separate entity. Though the first avatars created were Novask’s Attendants, the term ‘avatar’ as it’s currently understood rose to prominence with the advent of chromas, referring to the entities that Blight chromas sometimes form to defend themselves.

#### **Lich**

Liches are persons whose consciousnesses are relocated into another physical host: either a new body or an object. The first lich, Ix’kar, transformed in 11 AG.

#### **Bloocan**

A wild Bloom creature, often brought into existence by natural spirits wandering through the jungles of southeastern Garanain and western Japrait.

#### **Spirit**

Spirits are willed entities that have no physical form. They first appeared shortly after the advent of chromas as spatially displaced souls and as coagulations of magical effects, producing new and bodiless minds

**Ontophage**

The great Garani being-eaters. Monsters born in the Blind Star.

**Sphinx**

Sphinxes are a particular subset of ontophage, and reliably appear as gigantic big cats with humanlike heads. Unlike other ontophages, sphinxes specifically feed on secrets and therefore need to trade with people in order to survive.

### Beasts of Arholt

#### **Attendants**

Gigantic squids made by Novask to serve him. For the most part they just guard the Sanctuary and help him document world history, but sometimes they bring transcripts of the Chronicles to the surface in exchange for human literature and tales of the surface.

#### **Dragon beetles**

Dragon beetles are roving monstrosities indigenous to Scarlet Marsh. They destroy and devour without reason or compassion.

#### **Wilhund**

Primal echoes of Thua, scattered across Valstov.

### Mythical Creatures:

#### **Demons**

No. We don't have any demons around here, at least The Mediator should hopes we don't!

#### **Elves**

The Mediator says she read about them once, in a book. They're supposed to be very snobby and unkind to people they deem lesser than them.She finds them very unpleasant and she is glad we don't have any!

#### **Faeries**

Hm, we don't have fairies as such... We have the graeoln though, and they have wings and can do magic, so I suppose you could see them as fairies? Although collectively they aren't that bright... So perhaps not.

#### **Undead**

There are heard stories. Horrid stories. Stories that don't bear repeating.