Bestiary
in MezclandiaScholars who study the creatures of the world have organized them into a taxonomy of four major groups, and twelve subgroups. Not everyone finds this taxonomy useful: many are happier with the simple “do I kill it, avoid it, nurture it, or trade with it” groupings, but since that’s based as much on personality and personal history as on any innate quality of the creatures themselves, this point of view is rarely displayed in recorded texts. Various features and game mechanics may affect particular creature types.
Intelligence
- Mindless: lacks feelings and emotional relationships
- Sapient: can think abstractly, communicate, and form societies
- Sentient: has feelings and can form relationships, but can't think abstractly
Origin
- Aberrent: species recently created by intervention of people; species doesn't currently have a stable niche in ecology
- Ascended: advanced individual of a natural creature, not heritable
- Natural: species is part of a stable ecosystem
- Outsider: native to another plane/world
- Primordial: species created before the third apocalypse
Energy
- Carnivorous: feeds off the physical body of other living creatures
- Demonic: feeds off the spiritual energy other creatures
- Divine: sustained by divine energy
- Elemental: feeds off fundamental elements
- Parasitic: requires binding to another creature
Form
- Shapechanger: have more than one physical form
- Swarm: composite of colony of smaller creatures; takes half damage from piercing or slashing attacks
Range
- Aerial: Spending much time in the air, using flight as a movement mode
- Amphibious: equally at home in the water and on land
- Aquatic: lives in the water, swimming as its primary mode of movement
- Arboreal: lives among trees, climbing as a primary mode of movement
- Fossorial: lives underground, burrowing and traversing tunnels as a primary mode of movement
- Terrestrial: lives on the surface of the earth, running, hopping, or slithering as its primary mode of movement
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