The Guild / Bestiary
A joint record of the Lorcaun Concord
Four correspondents keep this record — one Lorcaun ecotype from each zone, since no other people has eyes in every corner of Adventura at once. Watch the tree-line long enough and something always moves first. A wingbeat the canopy shouldn't allow. A ripple where the lakebed has no business rippling. A weight settling in beside a tamer that wasn't there a moment ago — and is now, because it chose to be. The Concord is the rare outsider who gets close enough to write any of it down, and shares what it learns with the Guild that houses it.
A sixteenth packet — the Earth Channeler Mole — is missing its field description; only a torn page of its 15th-level training notes survives in the archive. The Concord's archivist has asked any tamer with a complete record to come forward.
Each entry is filed by the size of die its Powers are built around — a budget for how much weight its abilities carry, nothing more. That number says nothing about how big a creature actually stands (size rating runs on its own separate ledger; plenty of d4s out-mass their d12 cousins) or how long a tamer waits to earn one. A level 1 tamer with the right background can bring home a d12 partner as easily as a d4.
Don't mistake the lighter budget for a smaller story. Quick reflexes, sharp instincts, the kind of cunning that survives by never quite being where the danger expected it. Some of the steadiest, most quietly capable companions in this whole record carry a d4 — proof that surviving well has never required hitting hard.
A serpentine creature with a quasi-humanoid torso and arms, the majority of its form is distinctly reptilian with either bright or dark green scales.
Serpentine lower half coiled beneath a humanoid torso, bright yellow eyes and forked tongue catching the light before the glare does its work.
Small but mighty, the Forayshan Ferret is one of the most successful mammals in Foraysha due to its ability to live in practically any biome.
Small and quick against a wall of dense brush, bristled coat blending into Foraysha's canopy colors.
Constantly cloaked in a chilling flurry, this Beast makes its home in the coldest parts of Ryn’Quay. A small feline predator, the Living Blizzard will stalk prey in natural snowstorms and then strike suddenly.
A small feline predator mid-stalk, wrapped in its own private snowstorm, barely visible until it's already too close.
Not one creature but several -- a Druid's call summons three at once, each barely larger than a clenched fist, wings a papery blur.
Here the record starts showing real range. A wingbeat that shouldn't be possible at that wingspan. A shape that blurs at the edge and reforms somewhere else entirely. Each of these has read its corner of Adventura — canopy, burrow, frost line — and answered it with a trick the lighter tier never needed.
This creature looks akin to a large monitor lizard, having a long snout, squat powerful limbs that end in sharp slender claws and whip like tail.
Monitor-lizard build with gossamer insectoid wings spread mid-flight, compound eyes catching four angles of light at once.
Mirage masters, the Gewathrewn is known for its ability to confound potential prey and consume them with their malleable body.
A many-eyed, vine-limbed silhouette half-dissolved into a mirage of its own making, sand sliding where its legs should be.
A hybrid of snow owl and mountain lion, the Owlyn is one of the most intelligent of beasts. Owlyn have the head, feathers and wings of an owl with the body and limbs of a lion.
Owl head and wings on a mountain lion's body, white fur dusted with feather-spots, watching with unreadable intelligence.
Called forth rather than born, the Plant Defender rises from bark and root at a Druid's word -- a squat, bipedal shape built more like a barrel than a person, woven bramble-thick around a core of denser heartwood.
The Insect Swarm's older, sharper cousin, and six of them arrive at once rather than three. Where the lesser swarm merely harries, this one draws blood in earnest -- Guild field reports use words like 'curtain' and 'wall' more often than 'insects' once six of these are airborne together.
Something changes in the air when one of these moves. Not louder, exactly — just more. This is the tier where training stops running one direction. The companion can do real damage now, and the fact that it doesn't, won't, not unless the tamer beside it says so, is the whole reason the Guild bothers keeping a record at all.
A massive carnivorous quadruped with twin wicked horns that curve upward and a mouth full of massive fangs. The Bihorn has a shaggy coat of either brown, black or in rare cases a soft blue.
A massive horned quadruped rearing at full height, shaggy coat, an Oni rider dwarfed on its back for scale.
The Draken are scaly magical creatures pocket sized creatures are still looked upon in awe. About the size of a small caiman (.5 M), Draken are long and lean reptiles with colorful shimmering scales with small wings that rule in deep caves.
Pocket-sized and iridescent, small wings folded, perched on a companion's shoulder with claws hooked in for balance.
Elusive and rare, the illustrious Unihorn is one of the kindest and most ethereal of all the creatures in Adventura.
A pure white coat and rainbow mane catching mountain sunlight, golden horn mid-cast of a spectrum of color.
Where the Plant Defender is called to stand still, the Plant Fighter is called to move -- two of them at once, taller than a person, limbs more branch than arm and ending in something closer to thorned bludgeon than hand.
One of five faces a Shaman's summoning may take, and by most accounts the least predictable of them -- a shifting, faintly luminous presence that seems to think in tangents, favoring problems that can be solved sideways over ones that can't.
Called when a Shaman needs something to simply stand in the way and hit back, and does exactly that without complication -- a dense, low-slung presence that closes distance fast and doesn't much care for subtlety once it arrives.
The gentlest of the five by reputation, though 'gentle' has never meant 'harmless' where a Shaman's callings are concerned.
Quietest of the five, and the one most likely to have already done its work before anyone notices it's there -- a presence felt more than seen, favoring a foe's own doubt and hesitation over any direct confrontation.
Rarely close, rarely loud, and by the time most enemies register where the last hit came from, this one has usually already lined up the next.
Watch one take a hit that would fold lesser things and barely break stride. Nothing at this tier is in a hurry. Whatever's coming, it already decided to still be standing when it's over — and the only thing it asks in return is the patience to let it.
A Massive icy blue furry mammal, the Abominable Walrus is the largest of the northern mammals and are formidable foes due to their reliance and massive size.
Icy blue fur against a frozen northern sea, massive tusked bulk hauling out of dark water.
A molten canine beast, its coat is a shifting sea of obsidian plates that float across the inner lava core of this fiery creature.
Obsidian plates drifting over a molten core, mid-roar, the surrounding snow visibly melting back from the heat.
One of the toughest creatures of the Sabi-Thra, these saurian creatures are some of the only beings capable of traveling through the barren wastes.
A long-necked saurian built for distance, thick sandy hide, mid-charge across the barren Sabi-Thra waste.
Lightning given a body. A blizzard grown old enough to hold a grudge. These are the names still repeated around Guild fires long after the tamers who carried them are gone, and the ones every new recruit secretly hopes will choose them first. None of that is a claim about size — check the rating before you promise one a doorway. It's a claim about everything else.
A denizen of the deepest lakes and oceans of Adventura, the Lighting Eel is one of the more unusual aquatic creatures.
Hovering rather than swimming, shimmering yellow-white patterns shifting across its length in a storm-lit sky.
This large feline stands apart from other hunting cats with its mane and tail of razor sharp quills, though the elder examples have their limbs equally covered in these keen spines.
A quilled mane and tail flared mid-shot, rider braced low against its back, spines already regrowing where some are missing.
A carnivorous mobile plant creature with a dozen long vine limbs ending in brightly colored flowers full of fangs.
A dozen flowering vine-limbs reaching from a squat woody body, an Orchid-person tending its pruning at the base for scale.
The Lorcaun Concord