Daelyrian Mythical Creatures

**Daelyrian Mythical Creatures** refers to mythological creatures of folklores of different groups, ethnicities, and cultures from all over Daelyria. That does not include gods or divine beings from religions. Mythical creatures are fictional entities that have not been proven to exist and that are described in folk tales, myths, and legends. This article will be focused on talking about those creatures and of their places of origins.

## Greater Halond

### Gaeloreon

Originated on the town of Elesgate, Gaeloreon is a giant serpent covered in flames that came to existence to punish those who burned its home. According to folktales, a man called Pamayi burned down a whole forest to plant crops on it, but when he did that, the agony of the forest made the fire start taking the shape of a giant serpent. As a punishment, the serpent went to Pamayi's tribe and burned it all to the ground, letting only 10 people escape. Those 10 people fled to a place far away from their tribe and started to plan an offering to this serpent -that they called Gaeloreon- to calm it down and prevent it from burning them aswell. When Gaeloreon saw the offerings and the people begging for their lives, the beast had mercy and let them live.

To this day, some natives of Elesgate still bring offerings to Gaeloreon, scared that the serpent might come back and burn them alive. But most of the natives tell their children this tale to teach them to take care of the nature, and don't actually believe that Gaeloreon ever existed.

## Illeryon

### Daelvynar

The Daelvynar, in Traveler's Tongue ''ashen wraiths'', are according to legends creatures that passed away and had their bodies resurrected as vengeful undeads due to posession by spirits, demons, or divine forces, although there are many ways for a body to be resurrected into Daelvynars. To prevent the bodies from being resurrected, it needs to be burned. It is believed that the Daelvynars have no soul, they are merely corpses that contains an essence that turns them into undeads.

Some draconist occultists have tried to create a Daelvynar and to control the vengeful undeads, but there were never concrete results to these experiments.

## Duskyon

### Kyreleror

A monster from the snowy mountains of the Helmepion range near Frostarch, the Kyreleror is a giant beast covered in white fur, with a pair of horns and 4 eyes. It is said that the Kyreleror hunts down the people that dare to climb the mountains to reach the top. The person that the beast is able to catch suffers a painful and cruel death by the monster's hand. According to legends, a group of 20 men, tired of being afraid to climb the mountains, decided to kill the Kyreleror for good. They were able to hold the beast with chains for a while, however, it quickly overpowered them and killed all of the men one by one.

To this day, most citizens of Frostarch are scared to climb the mountains, because they're afraid to see the terrible Kyreleror.

## Kastollia

### Griffin

The Griffins, originated in Kastollia, are hybrids with the body, back legs and tail of a lion, with a head, front legs and wings of an eagle. According to the folktales that are passed through the generations, the griffins are beings that protect the warriors in wars and invasions. They punish the enemies of the people they're protecting by destroying their towns, until there is nothing left.

The griffins are so important for Kastollians and their culture that the creature is present on the Archonate's flag.