The Book Of Beasts

By Malatar Rhong

Oinkers The Gluttonous.

“I’m not scared of a big piece of fat bacon, let’s eat” -Last brave words of a guard before meeting Oinkers.

The kings war pet is a big fat swine looking monster that he store somewhere with shade.

It has the body of a big fat swine. It's skin is grey and it has elephant tusk. A big golden ring sits in its nose like a bull. it is 5 meters tall, and weighs 6 tons in metric units. It has sharp teeth that it uses to gobble down corpse, hence why it's mostly for war. It's spit is so acidic that it can melt iron. It has a layer of fat about 30 centimeters thick, which sits under an elephant's hide, which is so thick that you can penetrate it with a knife. Sounds terrifying.

Salu The Wise

“I give you this, for you are a true friend” Salu to some unknown person.

Salu is a servant of Aldarus, the god of knowledge. At first glance he looks like a humanoid owl, and at second glance, he is a humanoid owl. With a barn owls head on the torso of a human, the legs of an owl, the arms of a human and owl wings on the back.This is the physiology of Aldaruses many servants, including Salu.Though his body is the same as his brothers, his feathers are a different color. They are white and black rather than pure white.

He possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of everything. He can lift small objects with his mind. Because of him having an encyclopedic knowledge, it makes the pressure points of his adversaries obvious, unless their species haven’t been recorded. With all this knowledge in his head, it sometimes gives him headaches. He is also semi immortal, which means that he doesn’t age, but can still be killed.

As a servant of Aldarus, he can be summoned by a mortal being, in this case it were a summoner paid by king Magnus. He wanted a librarian, an extraordinary one, not one that’s mortal. The Summoner made a deal with him and tricked Salu into staying in the mortal realm for a single loaf of bread. This has made Salu mad at the king, but he can’t even hurt him, as were part of the deal.

Gorbas The Eating Flower

“Don’t EVER do a summoning on a bed of flower petals, or you will create a Gorbas” Summoner 101.

When the first summoner summoned a summoning on a bed of dead flower petals, the summoning got mutated with petals. That created the first gorbas, named after the man who created the beast, Gorbas Milla. When it were created, it dug deep into the ground and became one with the land. So to this day, every gorbas met on one's way is the very first gorbas that were ever created.

Its “arms”, the parts of it that sprouts from the ground in an instant, will grow three meters tall in a matter of seconds. The arms grows giant red flowerheads filled to the brim with knifelike teeth. The whole plant is a root system spread all over the land of Ashendale. It eats whatever it catches, and what it catches gets eaten by the arms.

It “Heart” Is said to reside in the deepest of caverns of Ashendale. This placement of it’s weak spot have made it survive for millenniums. To kill it’s arms, take something sharp then try to chopped the dingus down. To kill the heart, summoners and sages have theorised that to kill it, some recommend a classic old axe to chop it up, others tells to douse it in dragonfire.

Asheaters: Walking Incinerators

“They are the saviors and executioners of many brave men”-Monsters of time, by Milo Malo.

These being of fire and science are the fuel of nightmares.

Their burning skeletal bodies and animal skulls for heads ensures fears in the wounded, sometimes even the dead. Asheaters scouts the battlefields in search of the dead and wounded. Their bodies are not living but neither dead, they might be golems of some sort. They eat the dead and wounded so that they don’t spread diseases and attracts vermin. They only attack the wounded and dead, none whose living and healthy.

Historians have traced these beings back decades, centuries, even millenniums. Some say that they are the creations of an ancient civilization who vanished in one night, other says that they are they spawn of demons and angels. They serve no sides in the battles the participates in, since the side they served long ago, vanished in over the course of a night.

Despite their skeletal build, these monsters are very agile. They can scale a five meter wall in two seconds. They also hit like a charging bull, able to crack river rocks with a single blow. They aren’t that smart, only driven by a burning hunger, they sometimes get lost from the path of war, and end up in graveyards, digging up the dead.

Edda: Living Water

“Be careful with water, for it might be an Edda, and that might eat ya” An old nursery rhyme.

An Edda is a living body of water that varies in size from a puddle to a lake. They can also take on different form like rivers and whirlpools. If you step in an Edda, you might be as good as dead, because it grips the body part that touches the

water, then drag them under, where it drains their lifeforce for food.

It's almost impossible to distinguish an Edda from a normal body of water, unless you drop a fresh plucked leaf into it.

The leaf turns the Edda into regular water that’s blood red. Though it can be hard to find any fresh vegetation in the barren land of Ash.

Many executioners uses this monster as a secure form for execution of prisoners, since it’s almost impossible to escape it’s grip.

Curtar: Giant Snapping Turtles Of Pure Anger

“Don’t row a boat in the murky waters, there might be Curtars roaming them” Words of wisdom from a Ashendalian handguide.

These beast resembles that of  giant humanoid snapping turtles the size of an adult mastiff, nothing more, nothing less.

They have a mental capacity of a three year old human child. They use this for hiding tactics. They usually hide in deep murky waters were they eat anything edible that they can get their hands on.

 To kill one of these is sorta difficult, since they are strong as fifty full grown men, and have a turtle shell. Their color patterns are that of a muddy lakebed, for camouflage.

Megapisce: Rainbow Snake Fish

“They are the unholy offspring of Lagarus and hatred!” A sailors last words.

Long eel like fish that's the size of an anaconda, and have teeth like a shark. They can hide anywhere there's water 30 centimeters deep. They sometimes constrict their prey before chomping down on it. Their bone scales colors and patterns varies from Megapisce to Megapisce. It’s said that there exist in far away waters, a gargantuan albino Megapisces with silver scales that can cure any disease.

Its diet is mainly made up of fish and other things that it find

How to kill the damn fish: A good strong sword with do the job, but be quick, for a Megapisce is that.

Golems: The Summoners Guard Dog

“We were pulling off this job, then KABLAMMO! Jac’s smashed to pudding by a golem” A burglars tale- heard at a tavern.

Golems comes in many sizes and shapes. A golem is a spell casted on a statue, making it come alive under specific circumstances, like intrusions of private property. You can avoid being smashed a an angry golem by wearing the blessing of the person who commands the golem. They are as hard as the material it’s made of. It gets the materials strengths and weaknesses.

There’s a quite famous golem at Montra, guarding the Queens tomb. It’s made in Queen Ceilia Ashdowns image and stands 10 meters tall, with a sword one hand and an olive branch in the other. The king had it made, so no-one other than him, could touch her tomb.

Tundaleers: A Demonic Kind Of Mole.

“My whole estate shook, and then the fundament fell down into a giant hole” Richard Bergswerd of Pruvia.

Tundaleers are big seal like moles, though instead of those front mitts of the seal, it got giant scaly mole claws, with which it gracefully swims through the dirt. Its head is covered in scales and it got a hard keratin helm the looks kinda like an musketeers hat. Its body is five meters long and covered in wool and scales. The teeth it have in its mouth are strong enough to break stone. Before they attack a prey, they pop up their head from the ground, and give of a grinning sound, which attracts more Tundaleers.

In Pruvia, there’s an annual strongman's championship, one of the disciplines is Whack-A-Tundaleer. The participants are given a big iron hammer then they are put in an area with fourteen Tundaleers, where they have to bash the tundaleers on the head with it.

Moungels: The Pruvian Hound

“We were out huntin’ by the Pruvian border, then we were attacked by a moungel, tore half me face off” Tales of a moungel survivor.

Moungels are twisted blind dogs from the Pruvian tundra. The beast stands two meters shoulder height. The front legs are ten centimeters shorter than the hind ones, which causes it to constantly having a raised rear. It’s triangular eyeless can open up into four pieces, each covered in petrifying poisonous teeth. The hound have a great sense of smell, and can track a mouse through a blizzard without losing track. Their naked hairless bodies are covered in a special kind of oil, that warms them against the blistering cold of Pruvia. They hunts in packs of three to ten, often led by a female moungel

The moungels were bred as guard dogs and trackers under the 70 year war between Pruvia and Sanger. The hound turned the tides of the war with their high speed of 80 kilometers an hour and their paralyzing poison.

After the Pruvian civil war that killed half its population, a squad of moungels escaped captivity, then fled to Ashendale. There they preyed on the local wildlife and multiplied like rabbits. They had a great effect on the already declining wildlife, making it fall even faster.

Borases: Scaled Giants With Lava On Top Of It.

“When you are out walking, and feel the ground rumble, turn around immediately, or else you are caught in a Boras fight” Old housewife advice from a village in the mountains.

Standing 51 meters tall, these behemoths are siege weapons themselves. Their 40 meter long arms can hurl a 4 ton boulder like a catapult over 700 meters. Their 20 meter long legs can kick down a castles iron gates with ease. On top of being living siege weapons, they are also draconids. They got the head and scales of a dragon on a humanoid body, and can spew flaming hot magma like acid. They can grow incredibly old, some have reported Borases thousands of years old.

They are smart enough to make cloths and simple tools. They even got their own language, though only Borases can hear it clearly, since it’s to low and deep for others to understand. They live in tribes of ten inside caverns in the mountains of Mareshoe. They live in a matriarchal society, were they tribe chief is the oldest daughter of the former chief.

Because of their great size, they are sought by many warlords, but all are declined. They have learned from last time they interfered in war, the bad guys, their side, lost. Though some of the young ones are more persuadable if they are offered the right goods, though this changes from Boras to Boras.

Makabores: Wild Beasts Of Everything

“And If Your Wife Knows That You Have Been Cheatin’ With Some Whore, She Will Wake Up Next Day, A Makabore…” Verse from an old Pruvian drinking song.

The body of a bear, the face of a woman and the horn of an elk, these are very prominent characteristics in a typical makabore. They grow to the size of polar bears, and are filled with the fury of a bull.

None have any idea of why their faces have evolved to look like beautiful human females, some scholars says it tries to imitate the top predator.Their faces have sparked many myths and theories, and even a rather bloody myth too. The myth says that if one wears the face of a makabore to battle, they will gain its strengths, you even morph into one.

They are usually found in dense forests and by riversides, searching for food.. Their diets is made up of berries, megapisces, sometimes people, anything edible that they can find. In search of food, they sometimes walk into cities and villages.

Bottomers: Living Razor Sharp Water Paper.

“Me fishin’ line were cut ’fore I even pulled out of de water, me think bottomers roams dis waters” Old fisher at lake Hutoe.

If you step into water, and the bottom feels very shifty, get out immediately, for there are bottomers in the water. These amphibian creatures lives in the rivers and ponds of Ashendale. Their bodies are round and thin like paper, with razor sharp edges coated in nerve poison. They have crustacean legs on their bellies.

They crawl around on the bottom of rivers and ponds, searching for baby fish and small creatures. If they are stepped on, they become very aggressive, and will attack, otherwise they are incredible docile. They live in packs of up to seventy bottomers

Their color patterns varies from shining silver to gold to copper to other metallic colors. The early tribes in Ashendale used to dry bottomers, then use them for items, armor and weapons. Now they serves as a delicacy for those who know the ancient secret on how to properly cook them, so they doesn’t does get poisoned.

Omits: Swarm Of A Dead Thousands.

“Dark skies are a clear omen traveler, a omit is coming”-Ashendalen handguide.

From earth you have come, to earth you shall be. These are words describing an omit in more than one way. These are beings of the dark, of gloom, of the ground. As they walk, they suck the earth dry, the it replenish as they are leaving, all of this, only by existing. Strong omits can even suck and replenish the lives of people, just by their mere presence. This is why they are regarded as omens, bringer of death, givers of life.

They are regarded as omens of very dark times to come because of their ability to suspend people in death then pull them out again.

These beings or entities, will always wear robes with hoods, covering their creeping bodies. Those who have removed the robes of omits. the only reports of their bodies, have been quick glimpse of a body, fully made of grey worms, then passing out dead, only to wake up half an hour later, alive. Because of them being dead and somewhat alive, they don’t need any nourishment of any sorts.

Though they seem like powerful allies, they will never be commanded. As they are fully made of worms, they cannot be baited, controlled, persuaded, nothing. They are forces of natures, the drainage and replenishers.

WARNING! IF YOU STAY IN THE PRESENCE OF AN OMIT FOR TOO LONG, YOU WILL DIE, FOREVER!

Nabaros: Humanoid Megapisces.

“If you are out at sea, and a beautiful woman stands on top of the water by your boat, you have met a Nabaros. You will probably drown, unless she’s kind hearted” Old fisherman's advice.

Mermaids, mermen, merpeople. All of those are some of the name that people who doesn’t live at the shore calls them, for only true fishermen knows their name, Nabaros. These are those who drags lonely fishermen down to the bottom of oceans and lakes, making them their servants and slaves. They lure fishers to them by singing tunes and songs of great sorrows.

Over and on the surface of water, they look like beatiful women and a few instances have reported handsome men. Their have been blessed with the ability to walk on water by Lagarus. When they enter waters, their true forms are revealed. Their mouths are filled to the brim with shark teeths, their legs fuse together, creating a snake like tail. Their skin becomes scaly and blue. A large pair of fins almost looking like wings grows from their backs.

They aren’t wild animals, are mindless monster. No, these creatures is said to have underwater cities and civilizations. They have shown to create tools and weapons, indicating a higher intellect.

Rombastjaeler: The Cause Of A Missing Drink.

“Did ya’ snatch me mead ya’ silly wanker?” Famous quote from Captain BloodEye of the Flaming Sea, who didn’t know that one of his crewmates were a Rombastjaeler.

Have you ever looked away from your booze for a second, then the next it were gone? That’s because a rombastjaeler stole it. Rombastjaeler are always trying to steal alcohol, because it’s kinda what it eats. It’s bloods alcohol level can be compared with the Pruvian liquor named Ochen' srednyaya voda, in the sense that both contains 90 percent alcohol. To combat this, Rombastjaelers have evolved the strongest organs known on the planet.

The physic is that of a 1 meter tall humanoid with red hair and a tail with a red tuft of hair, that can be used for grabbing stuff. They dress in childrens clothes that they steal, because they fits most of the time. They have a long nose that’s five centimeters long and ears double that length. They have relatively large hairy feet. They mostly found waddling around half drunk at inns, taverns, bars, wine cellars, mead halls, practically everywhere there’s alcoholic beverages.

Shamamakat: Power Cat Of Bliss And Destruction.

“ZOOM and there were a hole through Torts stomach” The fate of Tort the Reckless, death by Shamamakat.

Lightning bolts manifested in cats, simple as that. They are fast as a lightning bolt and they can even transform into one as a final suicidal attack. Their exterior are that of a normal house cat and some have reported lion and tiger sized shamamakat.

They come to life, when a feline is struck by lightning or sand is struck by lightning. They are mostly found on open plains, big cities, beaches and deserts. The small and normal ones tends to be gentle and friendly towards people unless provoked. The bigger ones are a more dangerous and feral ones. The have reported to being able to turn into lightning and then return back to life.

Some people regards them as the gods wrath upon man, others as the Being Belows gift to man for their service. For what service it is, only time knows, for they have back from the ancient civilization that also is said to have created the asheaters