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A **flying snake** is a brightly colored, winged serpent found in remote jungles. Tribespeople and cultists sometimes domesticate flying snakes to serve as messengers that deliver scrolls wrapped in their coils.
_This slight creature resembles a goblin, but its blue skin and the icicles hanging from the tip of its long nose speak to the chilling truth._ The fraughashar are a race of short, tricky, and cruel fey who inhabit cold mountainous regions. Frau...
_These large water-striding insects resemble a strange cross between camels and wingless, long-legged locusts. A rider can comfortably sit in the large hollow in the small of their backs, even at high speeds or on choppy water. Riders use the gerr...
A creature wearing a black turban steps out of the sudden fog. It is roughly the size and shape of a short man, with gray skin and pointed teeth. The thing sneers as it summons lightning to its hand, the air suddenly stinking of ozone. Its stony g...
The majestic **giant elk** is rare to the point that its appearance is often taken as a foreshadowing of an important event, such as the birth of a king. Legends tell of gods that take the form of giant elk when visiting the Material Plane. Many c...
A **giant lizard** can be ridden or used as a draft animal. Lizardfolk also keep them as pets, and subterranean giant lizards are used as mounts and pack animals by drow, duergar, and others.
To snare its prey, a **giant spider** spins elaborate webs or shoots sticky strands of webbing from its abdomen. Giant spiders are most commonly found underground, making their lairs on ceilings or in dark, web-filled crevices. Such lairs are ofte...
_Wisps of humid wind revolve around this spiny ball. Two massive black eyes and a dark mouth are the only features visible through its static straight quills._ **Chaos Aging.** Despite its comical appearance, a slow storm is a creature of chaos,...
_Lounging on large river rocks or within swirling eddies untouched by the rush of the current, these breathtakingly fey call plaintively to travelers and knights errant. They seek nothing less than the last breath of a drowning man._ **Death to ...
_While a huginn’s face resembles that of a great raven or crow, it lacks wings and has a much more solid frame. Most are pitch black, although a smattering have white feathers and red flecks._ The ravenfolk are an avian race of scoundrels, schem...
_A darkly foreboding intelligence glows behind this automaton’s eyes, and its joints seep hissing green vapors._ **Wraith Constructs.** Fellforged are the castoffs of gearforged and clockworks production, given foul sentience when the construct ...
A **giant eagle** is a noble creature that speaks its own language and understands speech in the Common tongue. A mated pair of giant eagles typically has up to four eggs or young in their nest (treat the young as normal eagles).
Smaller than a giant spider, a **giant wolf spider** hunts prey across open ground or hides in a burrow or crevice, or in a hidden cavity beneath debris.
A depression in the ground trails in the wake of this six-legged creature. Aged ice, appearing more like granite, covers the creature’s body._ **Slow but Steady.** Glacier behemoths earn their name from their resemblance to glaciers, including t...
_A gnarljak looks like a bear trap springs sprung to clacking life and ready to tear flesh apart._ **Hopping Motion.** All steel and springs, a gnarljak is easily mistaken for a simple bear trap when lying dormant. But once it starts hopping in ...
The ground erupts into a scrambling flood of orcs, their pale skin decorated with swirls of black resin._ Dwelling deep beneath the ground, gray orcs move in a dark world, only drawn toward the surface by their innate hatred of arcane defilement...
_These enormous clouds of orange and green butterflies add a reek of putrefaction to the air, stirred by the flapping of their delicate wings._ **Demon-Haunted.** A death butterfly swarm results when a rare breed of carrion-eating butterflies, d...
_The gugs are giants of the underworld, long since banished into dark realms for their worship of the eldest and foulest gods._ **Underworld Godlings.** Gugs enjoy smashing and devouring lesser creatures, and their burbling and grunting speech d...
_This gray-skinned dog-like creature seems pathetically eager to please but fantastically skittish, its ears alerting at every nearby sound, and its large oval eyes following anything that passes by._ **Emotional Giant.** A hulking whelp is a ti...
The dragon surges through the water in a rippling mass of seaweed, flotsam, and hungry jaws._ **Avarice and Opportunity.** Scavengers driven by draconic instinct, kelp drakes have an eye for sunken treasure and easy food. They favor giant oyster...
_Some say the sluagh are fey turned by vampires, while others say they are the evil souls of violent men, who cannot rest and return to kill. Still others claim they are the souls of devilbound gnomes who committed suicide. All agree that they are...
_Writhing black tendrils stretch from this indistinct orb of pure shadow. The faintest flicker of something green, like an eye, appears for a moment in the center of the globe and then fades to black again._ **Called from Darkness.** Voidlings a...
A **giant fire beetle** is a nocturnal creature that takes its name from a pair of glowing glands that give off light. Miners and adventurers prize these creatures, for a giant fire beetle's glands continue to shed light for 1d6 days after the bee...
A grotesque human body moves like jelly. Its split-open front reveals the creature has no bones._ Husks are the opposite of Open Game License