Shade: Grouping: daemon. Shades are like three-dimensional shadows with more shape than unnatural shadows. The represent a particular demon who may be acting as a servant of a witch or warlock. Sometimes a shade will wear a dark hooded cloak or some other dark clothing if only to make themselves more visible or recognisable to a certain person. In other ideas, they are commonly used to represent spirits and/or apparitions of the dead. Genre-demon. Source: my slant on common idea. (see also Shadow)

      Shadow: Grouping: daemon. Unnatural shadows in my stories and in several others I've read represent the presence of otherwise-invisible demons. They often signify a powerful user of black magic nearby and/or demonic influence over a certain person or place. In my stories, black magic users normally have two shadows, one natural and one unnatural. Genre-demon. Source: my slant on common usage of shadows.

      Silver Grouping: The magic of silver beings is thought to be in some way related to fairy magic, although fairy magic is really only the natural abilities of fairies of which the methods cannot be explained in rational terms. Silver magic is in thought to be in some way the effects natural evil influences of things like apathy, discouragement, numbingness, and dispair. The Silver beings themselves, though, seem very unnatural. Their home is the silver land, also known as the "domain of the grepse" from which they capture or lure their victims in and diminish their hope, their memories, their cares, and eventually their identity until they become one of the grepse which are faceless silver figures who wander around without a trace of care or purpose. Source: mine, though there are similar beings in other stories.

      Siren: Grouping: fairy. A siren is a malicious type of mermaid with an irresistable song. There versions of the siren in folklore from several different places mainly around Europe, and they go by different names but are all similar. They use their singing to lure people into dangerous places or more commonly to their deaths, sometimes by inticing the person to walk off the edge of a cliff, or to drown themselves. The most famous siren which is from Homer's "The Odyssey" would lure sailors to steer the boat into the rocks to sink. Odesseus' sailors simply evaded this obsticle by using earplugs, but Odeseus himself ordered his men to tie him to a post on the ship so he could hear the singing without bringing himself to harm. Genre-sedhe. Source: Homer's The Odyssey and Irish/European folklore.

      Skeliton: Grouping: undead. There are two types of undead skelitons. A reanimated skeliton is made to move by magic and can be controlled by the wizard or warlock. A reinhabited skeliton had been possessed by a demon or ghost and is not dependant on any wizard's spell. The reanimated skeliton can be knocked to pieces easily, and although they will often put themselves back together, they are usually not a very tough enemy. A reinhabited skeliton somehow has more substance and magic and resists being knocked apart. Genre-reanimated/reinhabited. Source: my slant on popular idea.

      Slimeblob: Grouping: slime/acid. A slimeblob is (can you guess) ..a blob of slime. On Garefen, they are formed by magic radiation and are composed of different amounts of magic. Some are nothing more than moving blobs of slime, some can use weapons, and some can even talk. Genre-blob. Source: popular idea.

      Fear Slime: Grouping: slime/acid/undead. It is rationally assumed that something formed out of magic radiation would not have a soul and therefore could not have a ghost, but the fear slime makes some doubt that. It is not really the ghost of a slime but a ghost (probably a bogle) inhabiting some slime. It enjoys haunting places and can cause strong irrational fear in almost anyone. Genre-blob/ghost. Source: mine, inspirit by something from a book I forgot the name of which was loosely based on Zork.

      Slimeman: Grouping: slime/acid. A roughly humanoid slimeblob usually able to talk and use weapons, though they are not intelligent. Genre-blob. Source: mine/popular idea.

      Spectre: Grouping: undead. Transparent apparitions of dead people. Some are almost as thin and dark as shadows, some look almost like normal people. They are not always dangerous, instead spectres often act the same as the person did before they died. Some spectres cannot see living things, but carry on as if they were still alive with other spectres. Genre-ghost. Source: popular idea.

      Sphinx: Grouping: magical beast. The usual Egyptian sphinx is about 60'-80' long and has the body of a giant lion and the head of a man. There are also two lesser known types: The ram sphinx has the body of a giant winged ram and the head of a man, and the karnak has the body of a giant lion and the head of a ram. (One might wonder why they don't try the body of a human or the head of a lion..) In Greek mythology, the sphinx is smaller and known for telling difficult riddles. Genre-mythical hybrid. Source: Greek mythology and the shape of some Egyptian temples.., the length I gave is really a guess and I'd like an accurate number there.

      Acid Spider: Grouping: magical beast. A spider affected by magic radiation so that it has an acidic web and acid in its bite. Genre-spider. Source: kindof mine, was also in The Pit with no description.

      Giant Spider: Grouping: magical beast. A spider affected by magic radiation so that it grows between 1 foot to almost 4 feet long and has a varying number of legs between 5 and 17, though usually close to 8. Genre-spider. Source: my slant on giant spider from Nethack, The Pit, etc. appears briefly in my second novel.

      Giant Ceiling Spider: Grouping: magical beast. av.length 2'-4' A magical semi-intelligent spider that attacks by staying on the ceiling and dropping itself or a web onto its victims. Once in awhile there is a giant ceiling spider intelligent enough to talk. Genre-spider. Source: mine, made up when I was a kid.

      Great Spider: Grouping: magical beast. Giant evil spiders of the first age of Middle Earth. Shelob was the only origonal great spider to survive into later ages, but she had offspring which were smaller than the origonal great spiders. Shelob was probably around 6 feet tall (couldn't have been less than 5' because Sam the hobbit was able to stand up underneath her), so the lesser ones might have been around 4 feet tall. Sidenote: Bilbo's elven dagger (was a sword for him) was named "Sting" after he killed one of the smaller great spiders with it in Mirkwood. Genre-spider. Source: Tolkien and "A Guide to Middle Earth" by Robert Foster.

      Water Sprite: Grouping: fairy. av.height 4"-10". This lesser form of sprite is dumber and less powerful than other sprites. One unique thing it can do, though, is fly underwater just as easily as it can in air. Some of them are poisonous and shoot poison arrows (it can also shoot arrows underwater as if it were in air), those are also called "poison sprites." Genre-sprite related fairy. Source: kindof mine, partly inspired by something I saw in a mid 90s computer game called Commander Keen.

      Giant Squid: Grouping: nonmagic beast. av length 30'-70'. A giant squid is a real-life sea monster with eight or ten grabbing tentacles made to crush, and a huge head with huge eyes. It could be devastating to a boat if it ever came near the surface of the sea, but it lives and stays only in very deep waters. Genre-sea monster. Source: giant squid websites.