The creature field guide
Every kind that lives in the world, from small companions to colossi. 103 kinds.
Small kinds (11)
Cute, quick and easy to keep in the party.
Cactling
Common
A spined barrel on stubby feet that bursts into flower once it has grown.
Floepup
Common
A round pup that humps along the ice on its flippers; some grow ivory tusks.
Frondling
Common
A smiling salamander that breathes through feathery gill fronds; the grown ones glow at the tips.
Geomole
Common
A pink-snouted digger with spade claws whose back grows a ridge of crystal or stone.
Glimmerfin
Uncommon
A big-headed deep fish that dangles a glowing lure before its face.
Glowfly
Common
A fuzzy flyer whose abdomen glows like a lantern on summer nights.
Nectarwing
Common
A tiny bird with a needle bill and a jewelled throat, hovering on blurred wings.
Pixiebloom
Uncommon
A tiny sprite under a petal crown or a toadstool cap that flutters on butterfly wings.
Puffbloat
Common
A round fish that bristles with swept spines when startled.
Skipfin
Common
A goggle-eyed fish that skips across mud on fin-legs and raises a tall dorsal sail.
Wisplet
Common
A big-eared little sitter that lights its way with a lantern hung from its tail.
Companions (60)
The everyday creatures you meet on the road.
Bat
Common
A small furry flyer on membrane wings with huge ears.
Bear
Common
A heavy, round-eared forager on broad paws with a shoulder hump that grows with every form.
Bee
Common
A fuzzy striped flyer with little wings and a stinger, humming from flower to flower.
Beetle
Common
A domed wing case on six spurred legs with a rhino horn or stag mandibles.
Bloomserpent
Uncommon
A vine-green serpent with a leaf hood and a crown of flowers or leaves.
Boar
Common
A wedge-shaped charger with tusks, a snout disc and a bristling crest down its back.
Bubblefin
Uncommon
A small fish trailing veils of fin and ribbon streamers.
Casquebill
Common
A bird with a huge curved bill crowned by a horned casque.
Cinderhound
Uncommon
A hound armoured in obsidian plates, magma glowing through the cracks in its hide.
Crab
Common
A wide shell on eight walking legs, eye stalks up and two big claws raised.
Dartwing
Common
A needle-bodied darter on four glassy wings with a great compound head.
Deer
Common
A slender grazer on long legs whose velvet nubs grow into a crown of antlers or sweeping horns.
Dolphin
Common
A smooth swimmer with a beak and a dorsal fin that leaps through the air.
Dragon
Common
A winged four-legged reptile with swept horns; its final form takes to the air.
Drake
Common
A two-legged hunter with a big head, small arms and a heavy tail or club.
Fish
Common
A finned swimmer that glides through the air as easily as the water.
Frog
Common
A squat, wide-grinned hopper with eyes on top of its head and warts that glow once grown.
Ghost
Common
A wispy floating sheet with a trailing tail, all hollow eyes and light.
Golem
Common
A bulky biped of stone, metal or crystal around a glowing core.
Griffin
Common
An eagle's head, wings and talons on a lion's body; its final form flies.
Grub
Common
A chain of ringed segments crawling on stubby prolegs, with a horn or bobbled antennae.
Hedgehog
Common
A small low forager under a dome of quills.
Heron
Common
A stilt-legged wader with an S-curved neck and a spear bill.
Horse
Common
A long-legged runner with a flowing mane; the final form grows a horn.
Hound
Common
A lean, deep-chested runner with pointed ears and a brush tail; its ruff fills out as it grows.
Jelly
Common
A domed bell trailing tentacles and frilled arms, drifting on the breeze.
Lizard
Common
A sprawling, long-tailed reptile with a neck frill, a back sail or a curled tail.
Manta
Common
A flat diamond that beats its wing fins like a bird.
Mantis
Common
A slender insect that holds its folded fore legs ready to strike.
Monkey
Common
An upright climber with long arms and a curling tail; fighters bind their fists.
Moth
Common
A furry flyer on two pairs of broad eyespot wings, with feathered or bobbled antennae.
Nibbler
Common
A round little sitter with busy paws and a huge tail, round ears or puffy cheeks.
Nightglider
Common
A huge-eyed tree dweller that glides between the branches on membranes stretched between its limbs.
Octopus
Common
A big round mantle over eight curling arms; some wear a headband.
Owl
Common
A round-headed night flyer with a facial disc and ear tufts.
Pangolin
Common
A long low body and heavy tail clad in overlapping armour scales.
Peacock
Common
A crested bird whose train fans up behind it in eyed plumes.
Penguin
Common
An upright torpedo on short webbed feet with flippers and a tuxedo.
Phoenix
Common
A fire bird with a flame crest and long trailing streamers.
Rabbit
Common
A seated hopper with tall or lop ears and big hind feet; the grown ones sprout little antlers.
Raptor
Common
A broad-winged hunter of the high air with a hooked beak and a proud brow.
Scorpion
Common
A flat armoured body with pincers and a sting arched high over it.
Seahorse
Common
An upright ringed body under a coronet, its tail curled below.
Serpent
Common
A long body raised in an S at the head; some spread a hood.
Sky Whale
Common
A whale that swims through the air, cloud-stone crusting its grown back.
Slime
Common
A hopping drop of jelly that is all face.
Snail
Common
A soft foot gliding under a spiral shell, eyes up on tentacles.
Songbird
Common
A round little bird with a swept crest and a fan tail.
Spider
Common
A small head and a round abdomen on eight long jointed legs, marked on the back.
Spiralshell
Uncommon
A drifting spiral shell from which a ring of tentacles and wide eyes look out.
Spirit
Common
A floating core under an elemental crown, circled by orbiting shards.
Spirit Fox
Common
A slender fox whose tails count its age: one, then three, then five.
Sprout
Common
A walking bulb crowned with leaves, a flower, a mushroom cap or a bush.
Tortoise
Common
A patient walker under a domed or spiked shell of growth-ringed scutes.
Treewalker
Common
A walking tree with bark skin, branch arms and a leafy crown.
Wallbreaker
Common
A mineral-shell quadruped with a branching sail, native to the terraces.
Waterfowl
Common
A flat-billed paddler whose final form is a long-necked swan.
Weasel
Common
A long, lithe body on short legs, whiskered and curious, with a paddle or brush tail.
Wildcat
Common
A long, low hunter with a round face and a curling tail; some grow a royal mane, some sabre fangs.
Wyrm
Common
A long floating dragon with whiskers, a flowing mane and small clawed legs.
Great kinds (25)
Two to four times the size of a wild creature.
Boltbison
Rare
A great bison whose shaggy storm mane crackles over a towering hump.
Cinderback
Rare
A great tortoise carrying a smoking volcano of obsidian spires on its shell.
Coralcrag
Rare
A great crab with a coral garden growing on its carapace.
Deepmaw
Rare
A great deep-sea mantle that lures its prey with a hanging light before its reaching arms.
Duskwing
Rare
A great horned bat on cathedral wings that rules the twilight.
Frillhorn
Rare
A great horned grazer behind a bony frill and three horns.
Galecoil
Rare
A great legless sky serpent that rides the storms under a sail, lightning-rod horns raised.
Gemstag
Rare
A great stag whose antlers are living crystal that rings in the frost.
Knight Beetle
Rare
A great upright beetle in a horned helm and lacquered shoulder armour that guards its grove.
Lantern Owl
Rare
A great owl that hunts the dark with a lantern hung from its brow.
Loftneck
Rare
A great grazer on pillar legs that browses the treetops on its towering neck.
Marshjaw
Rare
A great armoured marsh reptile with a long snout and ridges of scutes.
Mirehippo
Rare
A great river beast with a cavernous jaw and lilies growing on its back.
Moonmoth
Rare
A great moth with long trailing wing tails that glow under the moon.
Plateback
Rare
A great grazer with twin rows of tall back plates and a spiked club tail.
Sandwurm
Rare
A great armoured worm that swims through dunes on grinding jaws.
Skybell
Rare
A great drifting bell that trails a curtain of glowing tentacles.
Skyram
Rare
A great ram under a fleece of cloud, spiral horns lowered to the wind.
Skyray
Rare
A great flying ray trailing lightning ribbons and a stinging whip tail.
Sunmane
Rare
A great lion whose blazing mane frames a humped, heavy chest.
Surgeback
Rare
A young sea leviathan with a crowned frill and sweeping fins.
Thornwarden
Rare
A great forest ape with a bramble back, branch horns and a beard of moss.
Thunderwing
Rare
A great storm raptor with a glowing crest and a long streamer tail.
Windsteed
Rare
A great horse with feathered wings that takes to the sky in its final form.
Wyvern
Rare
A great two-legged drake whose wings are its arms; it takes to the air from its second form.
Colossi (7)
Giants bound to one place; no wild creature grows into one.
Dunebreaker
Rare
An armoured desert digger with a shovel horn and great claws.
Emberjaw
Rare
The volcanic tyrant: a horned giant of obsidian with magma glowing through its cracks.
Fenstrider
Rare
A stilt-legged bog wader with a frilled head and glowing warts.
Frosttusk
Rare
A shaggy tundra giant with crystal tusks and frost growing on its hide.
Mossback
Rare
A walking hill of bark and moss with a grove of trees on its back.
Ridgehorn
Rare
A mountain grazer with a stone ridge down its spine and great curled horns.
Rimewarden
Rare
The ice dragon that keeps watch over the frozen deeps, crowned with glacier horns and spined with crystal.