Weird Wildlife
While there are plenty of perfectly ordinary animals in the world, which I won't trouble to classify, there are also various species that have been... affected... by the cruel whimsy of nature that we call strong magic. These include such oddities as glass wolves, wire elk, brass mice, popping weasels, mooncats, rubber tigers, and almost all of the mysterious cats of Chinkapin County (such as the cyclops cat, the six-legged cat, the green cat, and others). Needless to say, such beings are most common in areas characterized by strong magic--such as geography that once belonged to Fairyland, or the intersection of ley lines.
There do not appear to be any limits on the types of animals likely to become weird wildlife (although cats seem especially susceptible). They may be a little like dragons, whose morphology is shaped by local belief. Then again, they may not. Systematic study is difficult, and new weird wildlife appears all the time--though less frequently the further the Crisis event recedes into the past.
The key feature distinguishing weird wildlife from fairies or monsters is that they are, other than their weirdness, pretty much ordinary animals. Sometimes they are more intelligent than expected (it's possible that the cats of Chinkapin can all talk, but then again maybe all cats can talk and just choose not to), but their lives are those of regular animals.
They're just, you know, made of wire or rubber or bizarrely misshapen.
(It is, of course, totally possible that they are fairies/monsters and no one realizes it, but since this whole classification framework is the product of humans trying to make sense of an intrusion of chaos/whimsy into reality... y'know. It's all a trifle arbitrary.)
Genetic Descendants
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