To all:
Herewith is a list of small creatures that I have observed in my travels. This is not a complete description of them, just a starter list for people to expand on, both in number and in depth. If anyone has access to amber cubes from earlier researchers, transcriptions of the earlier work would, of course be worthwhile.
Flying:
Groundbirds/rocketbirds: All surface ecosystems
Gliding and stooping long-winged birds: common in Desert
Violet fliers: Forest
Small birds in flocks: Jungle (especially Lost Valley)
Small bat-like fliers: Jungle as above. Are these two forms of the same creature?
Buzzing gnats: Around lights and near carrion (possibly two different species)
Whirlybugs: Forest and Jungle (edit:Green and Orange/Red)
Four-wings: long body and narrow wings (similar behavior to whirlybugs): Jungle and Forest and Lakes
Flutterby's: Broad triangular wings, small body : Jungle, Lakes? Forest?
Buzzbugs: Very rapidly moving wings, hard to see body: Lakes
Ground:
Frogs: (Not just yellow, but also green and red.) Forest (edit: and Jungle)
Mice: Forest, Jungle
Digging Scorpions: Lakes, Desert. (edit:Forest) (edit: brown, red, green)
Dustworms (eyeless) Leap out of the Dust then dive in again: Desert
Gliding snakes: Lakes, Jungle, Forest
Dust hoppers (very small hop from place to place in the Dust) : Lakes at the shoreline in some seasons.
Water:
Schooling Fish
Prime Roots:
Umbrella Floaters:
Pulsing Floaters:
Pulsing Toroids (animal? plant?)
Other:
Jungle Ghosts -- smoky appearance, glowing eyes, two types (at least). Not animal or bug, but they seem to be alive: Jungle (Void)
Glow (bugs ?): May or may not be alive, but it sometimes seems to me that the glowing sparks that come up out of the Dust in some evenings have something inside them. It may simply be an illusion caused by the bright glow. My alternate hypothesis is that they are exudations of Sap from the Bark, reacting with the air to create light and replenish our stores of magic. In either case they are marvelous.
Herewith is a list of small creatures that I have observed in my travels. This is not a complete description of them, just a starter list for people to expand on, both in number and in depth. If anyone has access to amber cubes from earlier researchers, transcriptions of the earlier work would, of course be worthwhile.
Flying:
Groundbirds/rocketbirds: All surface ecosystems
Gliding and stooping long-winged birds: common in Desert
Violet fliers: Forest
Small birds in flocks: Jungle (especially Lost Valley)
Small bat-like fliers: Jungle as above. Are these two forms of the same creature?
Buzzing gnats: Around lights and near carrion (possibly two different species)
Whirlybugs: Forest and Jungle (edit:Green and Orange/Red)
Four-wings: long body and narrow wings (similar behavior to whirlybugs): Jungle and Forest and Lakes
Flutterby's: Broad triangular wings, small body : Jungle, Lakes? Forest?
Buzzbugs: Very rapidly moving wings, hard to see body: Lakes
Ground:
Frogs: (Not just yellow, but also green and red.) Forest (edit: and Jungle)
Mice: Forest, Jungle
Digging Scorpions: Lakes, Desert. (edit:Forest) (edit: brown, red, green)
Dustworms (eyeless) Leap out of the Dust then dive in again: Desert
Gliding snakes: Lakes, Jungle, Forest
Dust hoppers (very small hop from place to place in the Dust) : Lakes at the shoreline in some seasons.
Water:
Schooling Fish
Prime Roots:
Umbrella Floaters:
Pulsing Floaters:
Pulsing Toroids (animal? plant?)
Other:
Jungle Ghosts -- smoky appearance, glowing eyes, two types (at least). Not animal or bug, but they seem to be alive: Jungle (Void)
Glow (bugs ?): May or may not be alive, but it sometimes seems to me that the glowing sparks that come up out of the Dust in some evenings have something inside them. It may simply be an illusion caused by the bright glow. My alternate hypothesis is that they are exudations of Sap from the Bark, reacting with the air to create light and replenish our stores of magic. In either case they are marvelous.
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Remembering Tyneetryk
Phaedreas Tears - 15 years old and first(*) of true neutral guilds in Atys.
(*) This statement is contested, but we are certainly the longest lasting.
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