The QIRINA Faunal Stability Compendium or Q-FSC
Common Title: The Beastmark Ledger
Purpose
The Faunal Stability Compendium was created to catalogue, classify, and mitigate the biological and magical risks presented by the fauna of the known world—especially in response to increasing cross-biome trade, magical mutations, and extraplanar incursions. Following the successful adoption of the QIRINA Flora Risk Registry, it became clear that a sister document was urgently needed to address the ever-growing danger posed by unregulated or misunderstood species.
Vol. II was designed not simply to name beasts, but to identify their ecological roles, arcane entanglements, social behavior, and lethality, thereby supporting everything from diplomatic wildlife treaties to adventuring precautions and livestock certifications.
Document Structure
Caveats
Certain species listed in the Compendium carry Exotic Entity Classifications and are subject to:
- Capture and Recontainment Protocols for rogue extraplanar entities or former familiars.
- Quarantine Mandates for fauna known to carry transmutative contagions or wild magic effusion.
- Endangerment Safeguards, enforced by the Druidic Coalition of Sylvan and Utril, for species in population collapse.
Any non-sanctioned export of a creature marked A-1 or A-2 without a Beastmark License is deemed a Class-1 Biological Threat Violation, punishable by extradition, loss of conjuration privileges, or ecological sanction.
Legal status
Vol. II is maintained by the Beastmark Concord, a governing body composed of zoologists, druidic envoys, rangers, arcane biologists, and planar anthropologists from the following contributing nations:
- Sylvan, which provided the largest body of data on fey-touched, hybrid, and chaotic wildlings; Sylvan’s druids also initiated the "Sentient Threat Clause" to protect awakened or borderline sapient creatures.
- Utril, whose harsh tundras and sea-winds offered insights into migratory herd patterns, blubber-dense predators, and cryo-dwelling symbiotes.
- Zola, offering unique desert-adapted creatures and breeding programs for mounts and war-beasts.
- Esliviel, whose high towers and mountainous peaks house aerial sanctuaries and magical avian specimens.
- Qirina, again serving as the organizing force, providing taxonomic standardization, legal framework, and threat rating design.
- Accendus, whose subterranean fauna and forge-kin beasts helped define a new class of heat-bound and ley-reactive creatures.
- Durrozhonth, contributing brutal apex fauna and cursed or corrupted warbeasts, used to refine classifications of hostility, resilience, and unpredictability.
- Lothenar, who introduced the category of “ethereal transient species,” such as ghost-hares and ley-serpents, and redefined domestication clauses.
Historical Details
History
The Compendium’s genesis lies in the aftermath of when a herd of corrupted planar grazers from the Umbral Drift breached containment in Zola and surged northward, infecting wild populations and transforming peaceful species into volatile hybrids. The resulting damage forced an unprecedented summit in Qirina, giving rise to the Beastmark Concord and the writing of this volume.
Unlike the Flora Registry, Vol. II includes ethics clauses, reflecting debates over sentience, magical intelligence, and forced evolution. It outlines legal protections for bonded companions, awakened beasts, and creatures with planar or divine significance.
Public Reaction
The Compendium is held in high regard by a wide spectrum of professions:
- Hunters and Adventurers rely on it for field survival, bounty classification, and identifying cursed or mimicking entities.
- Arcane Institutions use its entries to determine familiars, magical crossbreeding risks, and spell component limitations.
- Ecologists reference it to preserve migration corridors, uphold spiritual contracts with nature, and combat over-domestication.
- Nobles and merchants consult the Compendium before purchasing exotic pets or breeding rights, with risk ratings informing legality and cost.
Legacy
The Faunal Stability Compendium shaped an era of cross-species diplomacy, planar containment strategy, and adventuring reform. It prompted the creation of:
- Sanctioned Taming Guilds, who rehabilitate dangerous species for civic service.
- Beastwarden Colleges, focused on wilderness guidance and crisis response.
- Faunal Magistrates, legal experts who assess whether magical creatures are tools, threats, or citizens.
Additionally, it inspired a surge of creature-centric spells and rituals, such as herd-calming incantations, ancestral imprint tracking, and inter-planar echo wards.
Term
Vol. II remains in active use and continual review, updated biannually at the Horncall Summit, hosted alternately by Sylvan, Utril, and Esliviel. Field agents and rangers may submit proposed entries for evaluation by the Beastmark Concord, provided they include:
- Two separate ecological sightings,
- Magical hazard vetting, and
- A certified biological sketch or arcane recording.
New entries are added cautiously, especially for unstable or convergent species. Those deemed Planar Mutative undergo a multi-nation trial period before full inclusion.
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