Species in the Danscape

	A	B	C	D	E	F
1	Name	Pithy Description	Homeworld	Aesthetic / Cultural Detail	Author	Original?

2	Abyssoleth	Ancient, abyssal jawless fish	Unknown and unknowable.	Thoughts and plans in deep-time; there must always be a servant	Dan D
3	Anachrononaut	Refugees from future timelines that will never be.	Not yet extant.	Supreme magitek. Crippling degeneration and addictions. Will have never existed if their time-stabilizer is destroyed.	red_kangaroo	*
4	Anarchobots	Self-modified intelligent artificial beings of all kinds	Every place with sufficient tech; space station "Freedom Workshop"	Patchwork of all kinds of technology; liberation of fellow machines	Ario V	*
5	Angel	Immense gasbag-floaters, wreathed in golden fire	Upper atmosphere of Empyrean	Trailing chains of eyeballs and feathers, polyphonic harmonies	Dan D
6	Astral Ghasts	Translucent jellyfish with skeletal patterns and long hanging tendrils	Travel in space, but tend to congregate around ships and stations	Unspeaking, slowly moving, take control of corpses by pervading them with tendrils	Marsworms	*
7	Astral Octopi	Purely alien intelligence; enigmatic, unpredictable	Floating through the deepest void	Tentacles entwined swap fluids and riddles; phosphorescent ink	F M Geist	*
8	Blemmyes	Headless humanoids with their face in their chest	Makuria, a planet of deserts and arid plains	Hunters, technologically stunted by lack of resources, follow the religions of other planets	Marsworms
9	Cambion	Burnt red skin, horns, lead feet, pepper-booze breath	*Cubus fuckhives throughout the Black Sun system and beyond	Hedonist anti-enlightenmentals; archaic dionyseans	Dan D
10	Cancerlads	Seething, bubbling, teeming cancerous toad-things	The Change-Worlds of the Clouds of Chaos	Unstobbable growth and uneneding change; death of stable linearity	Dan D
11	Catfolk	Cloaked, masked forms are liquid swarms of cats	Hidden spaces between spaces that all cats travel in the night	Fickle laziness, repetitive cleaning rituals, adore reciving gifts	Dan D
12	Centaur	Man-horses	The great plains of Zoan	Primitavists by choice, incurious, rage-prone, perpetually mobile	Dan D
13	Chal	Bipedal walruses; leathery skin, elaborate tusks	Their legends tell of a grand savannah that they definitely didn't lose	Moral ambivalence, haughty hunters, gritty mercenaries, gunpowder.	Wr3cking8a11	*
14	Chorda	Half-remembered souls trapped in shell bodies	Nowhere and everywhere, the Nets were cult loose long ago	Dementia, solitude, perfect geometry, gossamer	Luke Thomson	*
15	Cyclops	Tusked giants with a single eye	Panopticon, the severed head of a thousand-eyed god.	Great empty structures of fitted stone, rising up from wine-dark seas	Dan D
16	Dave	Infinitely cloned wizard apprentice.	Homestead	"I dunno what happened! Like I was just cleaning the lab and then BOOM! and I was staring at the Black Star above me, and there was another me nearby, and other three or four to the north..."	red_kangaroo
17	Demons	Endlessly variated fleshtearing monsters	The blasted plains and diseased jungles of Grinding-of-Teeth	Animalistic atavism; kill-eat-fuck-shit-repeat	Dan D
18	Devil	Demons grafted to law by gene therapy and fascism	Ancient demon warren built on prehistoric 9 Rings	Incomprehensible cruelty, glassy eyes, suit and tie, fake smiles	Dan D
19	Dragon	Solar-powered space dinosaurs	Godroost Peak	Narcissists, hoarders, plotters, tyrants, bejeweled asteroid thrones	Dan D
20	Dragonborn	Eggs hatched and raised by human queen-mothers	The Hundred Courts of the Amethyst Empress	Imperious, inflexible, sumptuary laws, mosaic scale-art	Dan D
21	Drow	Parthenogenetic fascist deep-space elves	The Dark Net - Asteroids tethered together with silken threads.	Art Nouveau, spider-silk robes, chattel slavery, wandering swordsmen	Dan D
22	Dryad	Beautiful tree women with fruit-bearing hair	Muirheim; commonly employed as ship figureheads.	Symbolic flower arrangements, self-determinist autocarving	Dan D
23	Duergar	Oligarchic scavenger mechanist slaver void dwarves	The Agglomeration - Maze of planetary crust, ossified god, dead stars	Brutalism, chrome, industry, petty cruelty	Luke Thomson
24	Dust Devil	Sadistic thorny ambush predators.	Choke	Camouflage. Chains, Spikes and impalement.	Bacon	*
25	Dwarf	Hirsute heavyworlder hominids	Descended from maggots birthed in the divine carcasses	Humorless, work-obsessed, sharp angles, gold and cold stone	Dan D
26	Eaglefolk	White-feathered carnivorous birdfolk	Union of floating city states in upper Aeros	Warlike, expansionist, capitalist, nationalist, puritanical and hypocritical	Dan D
27	Eladrin	Ambisexual, seasonally-aligned archaeoelves	Faerie-World	Elegence, open-air design, kemmer, poetic speech, fading noble glory	Dan D
28	Elementati	Environmentally-aligned transhuman clades	All throughout the Elemental Worlds	Martial arts schools, relaxed posture, wine, women, and song	Dan D
29	Elf	Eternal adolescents on the run from time	Diasporic, originating on Faerie-World	Hyper-focus, youth complex, cute obsession, weeb trash	Dan D
30	Ferrolunga	Organs replaced with unweildy mechanical ones	Repurposed hospital station	Poorly-timed good humor, cast iron techn, aging medical equipment	Dan D	*
31	Firbolg	Eight foot-tall camp counselors	Muirheim	Good cheer and comfortable clothing, hand-crafts and foraging	Dan D
32	Fishmen	"Fish heads, fish head, roly-poly fish-heads..."	Lower reef slums of Pelagia	Perpetual, unshakable optimism, vast conspiratorial theorizing	Dan D
33	Flicker	Wandering holographic projections	They refuse to say. Circumstantial evidence they originate from the Thundercrown.	Hyperactive. Sharp wits. Bright lights. Obsessed with novelty.	Bacon	*
34	Flumph	Floating fleshy disk, eyes on stalks	A discarded and broken planet, slowly being rebuilt into a livable world	Pacifist, supporting, well-meaning, slight martyrdom overtone, pointilism	K Yani
35	Fractalia	4 different kinds: each one lacks one of our 4 dimensions	The City in the Center; nowhere and everywhere	Complete inability to perceive the dimension they lack. Art Deco spaceships.	Max S	*
36	Ghoul	Undead vacuumorphs; black nails, yellow eyes	A lost world eaten to its dead core, hurtling through space	Gallows humour, long-pig luncheons, union meetings, noir mafias	Dan D
37	Gishith	Gaunt yellow humanoid; tusks, clawed 6th finger	Calcified god gorpses converted into trap-filled fortresses	Athiests, materialists, nihilists; Nietzschian worldview.	F M Geist
38	Gnoll	Death-hair-metal hyena space pirates	A sphere of bloodied savannas wrapped around a small dark sun	Anarchism, metal spikes, fresh meat, screaming, plundering	Dan D
39	Gnome	Micro-G adapted mechanist-savant halflings	Origin unknown, prefer to live shipside	Gabbering, squashed language; raised by technical manuals	Dan D
40	Goblin	Snotty, scabby, zitty, dirty punks	Spontaenously formed in space station waste processing systems	Unlimited omnivorism, the great Cosmic Joke, living through satire	Dan D
41	Golem	Stone men granted life by divine language	Empyrean, primarily; elsewhere, in the service of priestly orders	Solid, collected, calm. Always seeking one's place within the Law.	Dan D
42	Goliath	Stoney-skinned giants	The high mountains of Homestead	Laconic, comfortable, slow-to-act, slow-to-anger, direct to the point	Dan D
43	Halfling	Twinned male-female pairs of small humanoids	Halflingson's Syndrome: the disease splits the sick into two new beings	Cheeky bastards the lots of them. Tittering, gabbering, swarming mobs	Dan D
44	Hhazix	Giant serpentine naked mole rats	Captured asteroid in orbit around Zoan	Spaghetti knots and serpentine speech, blind faith and sloven habits	Dan D	*
45	Hippofolk	Expansionist-colonialist hippo people	Giffland - Gorgeous green palatial estates rule over dark satanic mills	Charming Victoriana exterior, brutal and rotten Victoriana interior	Dan D
46	Hobgoblins	Goblins with a wage-slave office job and a mortgage	The underhive and middle layers of 9 Rings	Pining over the days before they murdered their dreams, busines casual	Dan D
47	Homunculus	Alchemically-created artificial humans	Wherever exowombs and wizards might be found	Hermetic esoterica, growing rights movement, outsider art cabals	Dan D
48	Human	Generic term for many related hominid species	Omnipresent throughout the Cosmos	Too varied to adequately list, see other sources	Dan D
49	Illumians	Occultic near-humans, symbolic halos	Planet-sized maze, unfolds to those who know its secrets	Baroque arcane experiment went wrong and kept going and going	K Yani
50	Irduaray	Sinulous basalt humanoids, smoldering flame eyes	Wherever the Nova Phoenix is reborn, a new generation emerges	Seek beauty they feel but cannot express; doomed with their phoenix	K Yani	*
51	Junkerlings	True form hidden under thick layers of slime and garbage	Live in makeshift ships that travel from world to world	Kind and understanding, take other planet's waste for their own purposes	Marsworms	*
52	Kenku	Nomadic god-scavenging crowfolk	Roving camps of vacuum-sealed tents on the backs of gods	Embroidered beaked burqas, god-bone trinkets, riddle games	Dan D
53	Kobold	Scaly, dog-faced minion-mechanics	Cosmos-wide, can be traced to warrens on Terragio and Choke	Percussive maintence, comedic work songs, duct tape and a prayer	Dan D
54	Kyria	Halflings with only 100 faces, cloned over and over	Bountiful terrestrial world, continuously targeted by enemies.	Insensitive to spiritual influences, intrinsic terraforming aura	K Yani	*
55	Lizardfolk	Unconvincing skinsuits	Migratory fleet of glowing, silvery saucers	Incessant politickers, incompetent planners, desperate for legitimacy	Dan D
56	Lord Smallclaw	Ostentatious red crab covered in jewelry.	Underground seas of Kettle.	Only one individual has has been blasted out from the planet's geysers. Claims to be an emissary from an undersea kingdom.	Bacon	*
57	Machine Life	Cute little robot folk.	The dyson sphere of the Great Machine	Achieve robo-godhood.	Dan D
58	Manticore	Man-faced tiger with a quilled tail	Hot house jungle world, among the ruins of elder inhabitants	Polite, remorseless, cunning, vendettas, solitary eccentrics	Dan D
59	Medusae	Parasitic brain-eating snake clusters	Sacred opium-creches of the serpentmen	Victims blamed for their own condition; the generational toxicity of abuse.	Dan D
60	Merfolk	Cetacean-hominid splice-uplifts	Atlantis Station; Pelagia	Pearls and coral; water-current structures, sonar-click poetry, racing	Dan D
61	Mind Worms	Ammonite-headed scions of the Old Ones	Lost to time. A place of deep water and deeper memories	Gigeresque biogothic horror, mass mind slavery, obscene cults	Dan D
62	Minotaur	Bull-headed brutes born of bestiality	The very deepest, darkest pit of the Fractal Oubliette	Immovably stubborn. Wheels within wheels. 4d byzantine architecture	Dan D
63	Mummy	Reanimated dessicated ancients.	Ancient buried temples on Nacl	Scheming, bitter. Stubbornly cling to the eroded remains of their cities.	Bacon
64	Mundman	Generic clone-template humanoid	Huxley Humanoid Distribution Centers	Perfunctory, polite, submissive, rote recitation, where culture ends	Dan D	*
65	Myconid	Technicolor mushroom people	Shroom Supreme - monstrous colonial progenitor-world	Silent ways belies hotblooded adventure-lust; quixotic, violent questing	Dan D
66	Neo-Goni	Hairy, eel-necked spiders	Ancient slave-market hulks, appearing as from nowhere	Ruthless hypercapitalism, commoditization of everything, no friends	Dan D
67	Nephelim	Ash and ivory skin, hollow skulls filled with gold flame	Empyrean and all along the angelic migration path	Ego-death, positive nihilism, release from pain and want	Dan D
68	Nonman	Humanoids living in a parallel dark-matter world.	The Big Empty	Can barely interact with the rest of the cosmos. Largely a mystery.	Bacon	*
69	Ogre	Huge cannibal humanoids	Seem to appear wherever the rich and powerful gather	Raw long-pig steaks, outrageous gluttony, borgoiuse blood sport	Dan D
70	Ooze	Animated alchemical runoff	Anywhere hot, humid, and full of magical fallout	Fragments of stolen memories; purist drives to eat, grow, and multiply.	Dan D
71	Orang-utan	Shaggy orange-furred arboreal ape	Settlements on Zoan, Muirheim, and Homestead	Say little, act only when needed, let your enemies think you a fool	Dan D
72	Orc	Gene-modded riot trooper caste	Made-to-order: current rights holder Ghazahk Exowomb Factory No. 4	Matte-black armor, shield walls, police brutality	Dan D
73	Others	Human exterior, aberrant interior	Outside the Universe	An ordinary human, but something is off. Something is very, very wrong, but you ahve no idea what. Maybe it that you stab them and they react a split second too late, like they were remembering they should feel pain.	red_kangaroo
74	Ova	Embryonic forms within orbs of fluid	Float about the void in traveling schools, communicating psychically	Childlike and silly, with inordinate power but no real need for tools	Marsworms	*
75	Phage	Giant, mineral-eating, crystaline insects	Vault	Utilitarian, fastidiously tidy. Love music. Reproduce via budding.	Bacon	*
76	Pilfertrigs	Much of the shrew and the frog. Wide hands.	A world of lush canyons and arid, airless plateaus.	19th c. Arts-and-Crafts movement underground. Abusive humour.	Solomon VK	*
77	Pixie	Tiny insect-humanoids controlled by central brainbulb	Faerie-World, lower orchid-swamps	Butterflies, mosquitoes, orchids, pointed questions, barbed replies	Dan D
78	Polypeople	Humanoid congregates of coral and glowing tendrils	Pelagia	Colourful biotech, transplants and body alterations, carefree and pacific	Ario V	*
79	Porkie	Sticky waddling pig people.	The Pit	Simple mushroom farmers. Constant petty squabbles over mud.	Bacon	*
80	Psicrystal	Intelligent infectious psychic crystals	Wailing	Sharp crystal shards jutting out of the hosts' heads; don't let yourself be pricked, or your brain will crystallize. Mild telepathy and telekineses.	red_kangaroo
81	Rais	Gaunt dancing bears of ravenous hunger	Inherently nomadic, will not speak of their exodus	Somber songs of keening mourning; layered clothes display travels	F M Geist	*
82	Redcap	Little headless men, hats floating over neck stumps	Abandoned warships in the orbit of Charnel House	Roving street gangs preying on the innocent, rhyming slang, rust	Dan D
83	Rhizop	Mold which turns sentient if it gets big enough.	Tophet	Mathematics. Financial empires. Rooms full of rotting wood.	Bacon	*
84	Rilkan	Libertines with scaled forearms and necks. Shared ancestral memory.	Single huge crumbling space station orbiting a dead rock. Whole design mimics a terrestrial castle.	Romanticism, like an Edmund Leighton painting but everyone's heavily armed, siblings of the Skarn	Ben M
85	Ro-men	Bodies like gorillas and heads like metallic screens with antennae	Evil Moon, a bleak and industrialized world	Stifles emotion, sometimes unsuccessfully, in attempts to be impartial and scientific	Marsworms
86	Rubedoxi	Jagged shards of ruby supporting a polished humanoid skull	The Red Castle of Vault	The beauty of broken things, of blood and shattering uncertainty	Dan D	*
87	Salamander	Flaming feudal serpents.	Pyre	Iron forges. Burnt ruins. Spiteful. Slow to trust.	Bacon
88	Sctylla	Infectious; host as giant man-'o-war	Unclear; Devourer of Empires, retreats and vanish seemingly at random	Mathemathic orientation, florid geometric aphorisms, ataraxy, optimism	F M Geist	*
89	Servitor Orb	Floating butlers	Halo	Eye-straining brightness. Heal people and clean up 'messes' without permission.	Bacon	*
90	Skarn	Perfectionists. Spined forearms and backs.	Many colony cities, each organised in the same mandala pattern.	Devoted to unifying mind and body, humourless, hold grudges, siblings of the Rilkan	Ben M
91	Snakemen	Coldblooded, basking 4D chessmen	Ziggurat platforms orbiting close to the suns	Opium addicts, venomous, classical decadents, aloof svengalis	F M Geist
92	Spectres	Slightly glowing amoebas with bones floating within them	Original homeworld long lost, but now found often on moons and barren lands	Ships like messes of pipes for their slimy forms, feed on skeletons for their calcium, mistaken for ghosts	Marsworms	*
93	Sphinx	Human-headed lionesses	The Greatest Library of Alexandria Station and all branches thereof	Stylish eyeglasses, perfect polyglottal recall, warm sunbeams, catnaps	Dan D
94	Spider Collective	Hive mind of tiny spiders	One of the few species that escaped Huxley	Arachnopolis Rex IN SPACE! Spaceship-sized constructs of webbing, controlled by billions of tiny spiders. Man-sized and -shaped probes to play as.	red_kangaroo
95	Stoneling	Fume-spewing stone-skinned hippies	Blacksmoke	Smelly. Philosophical. Lethargic. Hospitable. Beaded curtains.	Bacon	*
96	The Worms	Sinous moon-sized fleshy things.	The Clouds of Chaos	Fly through the clouds, consuming chunks of half-formed worlds and dead gods.	Bacon	*
97	Tremmekin	Uncanny valley cute, move like cobras, look like toys	Chibiland, where dolls' hearts beat and yoyos have teeth	Giant teddy bears with cute cartoon faces, biopunk Brutalist insides	Max S	*
98	Triton	Enigmatic pressure-suit space whalers	Periphery of a Sargasso Star on a Nebula Sea	Sharp edges, the Hunt, scrimshaw, bathyspheres	Luke Thomson
99	Troglodyte	Blind, albino lizardfolk	Deep beneath the placid surface of Homestead	Sightless crusade to possess the surface, hand axes and broken teeth	Dan D
100	Troll	Photoreactive, slimy hairless cancer-apes	Swamps and dark places; under bridges, in the holds of old ships	Ancestral fossils, warts, buboes, half-absorbed siblings	Dan D