Natural animals and beasts
_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...
_An undulating mass of flesh and teeth, a wharfling swarm is a horrific sight by moonlight._ **Bloodthisty Mobs.** These masses of hairless bodies writhe along the coast in the moonlight, and often are mistaken for shoggoths or other much larger...
_This lumbering saurian quadruped has large, oblong plates of bone covered in greenish slime protruding from its back and its thick, club-like tail._ _**Large Plates.**_ People describe this reptilian herbivore as “the animal with planks growing...
_Hairless, ugly, and usually dripping water, the wharfling is a nocturnal raider and fond of stealing from fishmongers and jewelers alike._ **Waterborne Packs.** Wharflings have large, webbed hands and feet and oversized mouths. An adept fish ca...
_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.**_ ...
_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...
_A dazzling explosion of multicolored lights erupts from this cloud of flying beetles, flashing every color of the rainbow._ _**Flesh-Eating Beauties.**_ The depths of the jungle are filled with lethal wildlife, and prismatic beetles are superla...
_The kongamato is an evolutionary holdover, a large pterodactyl with avian traits, such as emergent feathers and long, beaklike jaws._ **Boat Breaker.** Its name means "breaker of boats," and as that implies, this creature systematically destroy...
_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 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...
_So called by some watermen because of its method of hunting, the glass gator is a nearly-transparent ambush hunter. It usually strikes from a bed of water, either stagnant or flowing. The transparency of the creature, combined with its jet of sil...
_Several pony-sized ants swarm around an ant the size of a draft horse, clacking their serrated mandibles and threatening with their stingers._ Giant ants look much like a normal ant with six legs, a waspish segmented body, and large antenna. Th...
_These winged snakes are coastal beasts and sometimes confused with true dragons or wyverns. They are neither, but quite deadly in their own right._ **Searing Acid.** Drakon fangs do not deliver venom; volatile acid constantly burbles up from a ...
_The beetles wore golden bridles and carried huge leather sacks of stone and guano. They marched without stopping; dozens, even hundreds, bringing fresh earth to the white-fungus trees of the great forests. Their claws skittered with a sound like ...
_A large reptile with a dagger-like teeth and a scaly hide of shifting colors, the gbahali often strikes from close range._ _**Chameleon Crocodiles.**_ While distantly related to crocodiles, gbahali have adapted to life away from the water. To m...
_This mole-like creature is the size of a large dog, with a thick, barrel-shaped body as heavy as a full-grown dwarf. A ring of tentacles sprouts above a mouth dominated by spade-like incisors. It has no visible ears and only tiny, cataract-filled...
_These aggressive, blue-black freshwater crabs inhabit rivers and streams, scuttling along the muddy terrain in search of prey._ **Strangling Claws.** Garroter crabs are named for their abnormal right claws, which have evolved over time to stran...
_A bone crab’s cracked skull scurries forward on bone-white legs. These tainted crustaceans make discarded craniums their home._ **Skull Shells.** Much like an enormous hermit crab, bone crabs inhabit the remains of large fish, humanoids, and ot...