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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.
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...
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...
_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...
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 common threat in canals, lagoons, bayous, and countless other bodies of water, the giant water scorpion is responsible for the deaths of many adventurers exploring waterways. Like most aquatic monsters, giant water scorpions are seldom at the to...
Great gray owls are stealthy predators, and the largest of the non-giant varieties of owls. Unlike other owls, great grays aren’t territorial—with the exception of females raising young—and don’t flush or spook when other creatures approach. Rathe...
Smaller than a giant shark but larger and fiercer than a reef shark, a **hunter shark** haunts deep waters. It usually hunts alone, but multiple hunter sharks might feed in the same area. A fully grown hunter shark is 15 to 20 feet long.
_A large, brown spider that resembles a tarantula with exaggeratedly long legs gracefully emerges from the bushes, followed by similar arachnids that are smaller and yellow in color._ The j’ba fofi resembles an oversized tarantula with very long...
_These spiders are named for both the deep red swirls on their abdomens, unique to each spider, and for their peculiar hunting technique. The largest ones hunt in the dark canopy of temperate and subtropical forests._ **Hand-Sized Hunters.** The...
Smaller than giant sharks and hunter sharks, **reef sharks** inhabit shallow waters and coral reefs, gathering in small packs to hunt. A full-grown specimen measures 6 to 10 feet long.
A **quipper** is a carnivorous fish with sharp teeth. Quippers can adapt to any aquatic environment, including cold subterranean lakes. They frequently gather in swarms; the statistics for a swarm of quippers appear later in this appendix.
_The black carapace gleams in the desert sun, and its tail drips translucent venom. Even the largest lion avoids this scorpion._ **Highly Venomous.** Known for its small size and aggressive behavior, the Stygian fat-tailed scorpion brings a swif...
This tusked seal is nearly transparent, including its internal organs, except for a few spots dotting its hide._ **Unseen Pinnipeds.** Shimmer seals traverse their typical habitats hidden from prey and predators alike. Their translucent skin and...
The insect clings to a large rock and drips saliva on it. A puff of steam rises from the rock, and the creature licks at the liquid remains, leaving a pockmark in the stone._ **Rock Eaters.** The rock roach is a giant cousin to the roach, and it...
Esteron are small, winged salamanders that live in large groups. They cluster around subterranean bodies of water and aggressively protect such places. Some underground creatures see the esteron as a delicacy, but those who hunt esteron know the b...
Greenish liquid drips from the dagger-length fangs of this 20-foot-long monstrosity. They show little fear. _**Human Hunters.**_ This giant venomous snake is known as one of the most lethal serpents, and one of the few that will attack an adult ...
Large Beast, CR 1/2. From Tome of Beasts.
_These clicking, turquoise-colored beetles have faintly luminescent golden glyphs on their backs, which grow brighter as they draw near._ Manabane scarabs are vermin infused with the ancient magic of fallen desert empires. _**Devour Magic.**_ ...
_A spinosaurus is a land and riverine predator capable of carrying a platoon of lizardfolk long distances on raids. Often called a river king or river dragon, they are worshipped by bullywugs and other primitive humanoids._ _**Friend to Lizardfo...