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Fauna of Alskyr
E-I [Earth-Imported]
Animals
Antelope
Butterflies
Cats (Many species)
Chicken
Dogs (Many species)
Gazelle
Goats, Mountain
Goats, Domestic
Honey Bees
Horses (Many species)
Pheasant
Silk worms (Harvested in-House, not wild)
Snakes (Generally constrictors, some mildly venomous)
Song Birds (Many species)
Rodents (Involuntarily taken along; mice, rats. Voluntarily taken along;
squirrels, chipmunks.)
Land Creatures
Adkins
Pronunciation: add-kinss
Contributor: Tershan
microscopic bug-things that live in many plants, but especially Brekkin.
very good for you, they eat the stuff in your stomach that would otherwise
just pass on through, and then you can digest them. sounds gross, but its
true. only the really crazy scientist with their noses always in the old
records about the coming and the first ones really know about them, but it
is known that Brekkin is very good for diarria (or however u spell it) and
most upset stomachs. Adkins are the reason.
Aifre
Pronunciation: EYE-fray
Contributor: Sabreya
Small creature, from 2 to 3 feet in length, including it's bushy tail, the
creature resembling a fox. It has extremely large ears, each one about
two-thirds the size of it's narrow head. It's coat is a solid cream,
white, tan, brown, and black, it's eyes being black and brown. On light
fur, the nose is a pinkish shade, while on dark fur, it's black. The
aifre's fur is extremely soft, and when brushed, the fur that comes free
can be used to weave very expensive and soft clothing, mostly sweaters.
They are kept as pets, when one is able to tame or buy one.
They have kits once a year in the spring, most litters being around four
kits strong. After six weeks, the kits are old enough to leave their
mother and start their own life (if in the wild) or be bought by other
humans as pets.
Alis Gryph
Pronunciation: al-ISS GRIHF
Contributor: Sabreya
Alis Gryphs are very small versions of gryphons. They range in size from 1
to 2 feet long, beak tip to tail tuft. They cannot use any T-Power, and
are much like Caer Lizards in their intelligence levels. They are slightly
more ornery and stuck up, so it takes a patient person to deal with them.
Caer Lizard
Pronunciation: CARE LIH-zard
Contributor: Qalam
Caer Lizards are small versions of the dragons. Caer Lizards are slightly
larger than Alis Gryphs because of their long neck and tail. They range in
size from 2 to 3 feet in legnth, muzzle to tail tip. They don't speak, or
have any type of T-Power, they are just pets. Because of their lack of a
highly advanced brain, they do not have any possibility of using any
T-Power, so they cannot do much but flit, and be helpful to their owners.
While they cannot speak, they are still as intelligent as an older human
child, and can be just as willing or disobedient.
Chame
Pronunciation: cha-may, plural "Chamiis"
Contributor: Bretta
Small, grasshopper like insect found in the region named for it. (my
claim, if possible) Roughly 1-2 inches in size with no distinction between
the genders, if there are even two.. Varying in color from a light tan to
a deep burgundy. Caught by children and placed in handmade cages as a good
luck charm. Believed to eat grains and such, causing a problem with fields
(another reason for being caught and sold/traded off). Superstition tells
that if one steps unknowingly on a chame, years of bad luck will follow.
They are kept as pets, the burgundy being the most valued and hardest to
find. Chamiis are often given to friends or family leaving on a journey
for luck, or to a lover as a symbol of good intentions.
Chizatsa
Pronunciation: chihz-aht-za
Contributor: Zanara
Small mammal, about the size of a rabit. Can be brown, tan, black, white,
or orange, and has big mouse-like ears, only much larger, for hearing
predators. Has a short pointed tail, though it is so fuzzy it looks more
rounded than the actual tail is. Eats various vegetables, and as it is
defenseless (save its fast speed) it is a sourse of food for many small or
medium size carnivores. Lives everywhere.
Dargio
Pronunciation: Dar-gee--oh
Contributor: Silvermoonweyr
Dargios are like pigs, except they can fly. I got this from the expression
"when pigs fly", so I figured our world should have some flying
pigs. They are hollow boned like birds, but they do not have feathery
wings, because that would make them too similar to the Centuran Oyank.
Instead, they have sort of dragon/bat wings.
Delcer
Pronunciation: del-see-er
Contributor: Yakima
deer like animal that is the size of a white-tailed deer. They have a
white underbelly and legs while black stripes run horizontal along their
legs.
Didhaga
Pronunciation: did-hay-gah
Contributor: HarvestGirl1303
Is a long haired mammal bearing a similar look to the ancient Mammoth of
the Earth Ice Age although being about as large as the common earth house
cat. Didhagas are omnivores, feeding on both plant life and small animals.
Didhaga are able to be trained and kept as pets, but few chose to house
these creatures because of their wild temperament.
Felaff
Pronunciation: FAY-loff
Contributor: Frizzle
Largish creatures, about 40 inches long when full grown, not including the
tail. They have short fur, almost like feline fur, but they have thicker
coats in the cold weather and they shed their undercoat when it gets
warmer. They come in a variety of colors, blue, brown, purple, red,
yellow, green orange. Rarely are they found in rainbow, or in two or more
colors, or in black or white. Felaff colors have nothing to do with rank,
they are merely the color of the fur.
Felaffs are born, like
puppies, and litters happen when they happen. The pups become attached at
birth to someone they feel they can trust, though this attachment is by no
means permanent, it ensures the pups safety and food as the mothers are
prone to go on and lead a normal pup-less life even the day after the
birth of the pups. If there is no one present for them to bond to, they
try and fend for themselves, and rarely stay together as a group. If this
were to happen, much of the litter would be lost.
Fitharin
Pronunciation: fihth-are-in
Contributor: Tershan
horselike head and neck, with long silky mane. smallish arms and long,
solid tail that it uses for balance when standing still. two long, hoofed
legs that it uses for running. very fast, if ot always a smooth trip. they
are domesticated, and used to travel from place to place. are often quite
friendly, and would always appreciate a tender Gilspie root. eat grasses,
grains, and some fruit as well.
Fralamaraz (winged wolf)
Pronunciation: fral-ah-mar-az
Contributor: Raayah
Native to the Island of Lantir-setia in the Marbethil
Valley. They are a rather ancient animal with a mysterious creation for
none of the gryphons or dragons remember them existing as long as they
have. They are wolves with wings; able to teleport like the gryphons and
dragons, and some use magic that was taught to them by the gryphons
years ago. The wolves are able to use the T-power to talk to humans and
beasts alike as well as themselves.
They have, most commonly, eagle-hawk type wings that
give them the ability to make sharp turns and travel long distances.
They have a light skeletal structure and muscular system. Keen eyes able
to see at night. They talk aloud even if their mouth's don't move like
the dragons and gryphons.
A few packs are scattered throughout Alskyr since their
reappearance in the year 561 when King Alynn and Queen Segarra revived the
wolves who had long since been thought extinct. They are peaceful when
people get to know them and have been known to bond to humans. Rarely
they befriend a gryphon though no dragons (of any sort) have bonded for
they are WAY to big for such a small creature.
Lacestade
Pronunciation: lace-stande-dee
Contributor: Brina
the lacestade is a rare sight in the tropics but is commonly seen at the
poles in shelters in snow burrows or rocky crevasses. they are 1 to 1.5
feet long with color ranging from dark brown to pale creamy whites
depending on the season and if the place they live is snowy or rocky. the
meat of the lacestade is tender and very good to taste (but how someone
knows this is beyond me) and is a very good reward for a long difficult
hunt, you would probably never catch the one you first tryed for since it
would scurry into a burrow of it's and pop out a distant one making it
very hard to catch. it would also be foolhardy to stick your hand down a
hole to coax them out they are carnivores! (heh, heh, heh, the gophers
revenge!)
Margro
Pronunciation: MAR-grow
Contributor: aflatgminor
A small, beetle-like insect. 10 legs, black, rounded, almost bullet-like.
A livestock parasite, distant cousin to our Terran ticks, but larger and
with tiny, distinct horn-like protrusions jutting from its head. Two more
things that differentiate the Margro from the tick is that the Margro has
wings to bring it from meal to meal (rather than hopping) and it does not
choose one host and hang on, preferring variety. It is incredibly
adaptable and goes wherever there are fresh hosts. Often used as a fiend
in bedtime stories or to scare younglings from straying too far into the
woods.
Meacker
Pronunciation: MEHK-er
Contributor: Yakima
A larger feline from the wolves' world. Cross between a lion, leapord,
cheeta and tiger. main enemy for the wolves.
Sarkchi
Pronunciation: sark-chee
Contributor: Zanara
Small green parrots about the size of a parakeet. They live only in humid
tropical areas, and they love tertitinn trees, which grow their favorite
fruit. Some people keep them as pets, and they can be taught to imitate a
few words though their vocabularies aren't very big, and it isn't certain
whether they understand what they say or not.
Skirr
Pronunciation: (say 'skirt' and drop the 't')
Contributor: Mariana
An equine-like animal, looking rather like a cross between horse, deer,
and cow. They are raised for two purposes: food and riding/burden beasts.
The ridden variety has slender legs and cloven hooves, with two
cone-shaped, finger-width horns centered just behind their ears.(males
have branches on theirs, while females don't). The horn is sometimes used
for carving and decoration, but only after the beast is dead. The tips of
the horns are needle sharp for defense, but the carrier is very dexterous
and agile and hardly ever pokes anyone without meaning to. Skirr heads are
shaped like a Terran horse's, but slightly shorter and wider. The torso is
much like a deer's but more compact. Their coats come in many
varieties--striped, spotted, solid, bi and tricolored. Mostly they are one
solid color that darkens to black at the legs and nose (think of a Terran
bay-colored horse); therefore the rarer, beautiful pale-shaded skirrs are
prized.
The foodbeast type has stubbier legs and a stocky body. They too have
horns, but theirs are slightly thicker and much shorter. These skirrs are
placid and docile by nature. It is often said that they are phlegmatic
enough to ignore even Ants, though this is highly unlikely. They are more
like cows predominantly in build, and have solid hooves; their heads are
deer-like with large eyes. Food skirrs usually have grey or mixed-color
coats, sometimes with dapples. They grow out their hair very long during
the cold season, and the soft strands are commonly used for clothing.
Note: What appeared as the fifth and sixth legs (or wings) on other
Alskyrian life-forms have devolved (is that the right word?) into highly
flexible, rib-like structures (commonly called flexribs. You can see why.)
that allow the stomach to expand greatly and therefore accomodate more
food if the need arises. The slight joint in the middle of both flexribs
are unnoticeable to the naked eye even when the bone is exposed, and are
the only indication that skirrs once had six legs (wayyyyyyyy back in
primordial history, of course.)
Tsirin
Pronunciation: tseer-rin ('t' is mostly silent)
Contributor: Zanara
A small lizard that comes in two colors. Females are blue, and males are
yellow. They have either spots or blotches on their scaly skins, and they
live almost everywhere that doesn't go below 40 degrees (Fahrenheit) in
the winter.
The males of the species can get up to 10 inches long, though females are
only about 8.
They eat margro and ezach bugs and are therefore loved by the populace for
helping to get rid of the annoying insects. Can be kept as a pet but isn't
a very common one.
Zaryn
Pronunciation: zar-yin
Contributor: Tershan
A fox/weasil creature, probably related to the Aifre. they are low to the
ground, long and skinny. They have a pointy nose for snapping up rodents,
and clawed, tough feet for out digging lacestande. They are sometimes
trapped for their fur (they have long, luscious tails), and sometimes
tamed and trained to hunt yummy little rodents like lacestande and
chizatsa.
Sea Creatures
Adoli
Pronunciation: ah-DOLE-ee
Contributor: Sabreya
Large ocean mammal, resembling a killer whale/orca of old Earth. It's
mostly black, but in place of the black coloring on it's back it can also
be gray or blue, depending on where it lives in the oceans of Alskyr.
These are large creatures, their lungs particularly large, able to hold
their breath for hours at a time.
They are gentle creatures, and love sparse contact with humans, though
they don't crave it. They eat large varieties of fish, and when seeing the
adoli, it's wise to throw out your net because they'll help chase the fish
right into it - for a belly rub and some large fish as payment, of course!
Bandara
Pronunciation: Ban-dare-a
Contributor: HarvestGirl
Bandara are large creature, similar to the Earth whale; however, unlike a
whale, Bandara are not mammals. The process an egg which, at the size of a
small house, can weigh up to an exceeding 200 lbs. Bandara come in several
colors, the most common of which is blue. The rarer red and green varieties
are more often seen in deeper water than their blue relatives. Bandara
have three fins, not including the back. Two on the sides, and one on
their belly. The underbelly fin has three separate "fingers"
which can move independent of each other and grab prey off of the ocean
floor.
Bandara are normally carnivores, but will eat plants if the need arises.
Harbor
Skates
Pronunciation:
Contributor: Qalam
Harbor Skates are a smallish flat-bodied fish resembling the earthly
flounder or ray. They have a flat, wide arrow-shaped body, with eyes on
the top of their head, toward their pointed nose. They are strict bottom
feeders, sucking up detritus on the sea floor, usually near beaches or
tide pools. They are about 14" long, at most, and come in a dazzling
array of grey, slate, silver, muddy black, and muddy white...
That's a joke son, they're "gray". Their bodies have small
frilly fins along the edges, and a bit of a tail but it too is flat, and
pretty small, like a small finger sticking off their rear.
They are good to eat, with solid, white flesh (more like calamari than
fish), and people have been known to use their eggs as a caviar like
garnishing.
They are hunted by nearly anything big enough to eat them, and are a
favorite around spawning time (mid summer) with the nearby sea dragons or
gryphon populations, as they tend to flop about in shallow waters
depositing their eggs and fertilizing them in a huge mass-mating.
Exhausted but not dying, after the fish mate, they then head for deeper
waters, but that usually takes a resting up period of a day or more. While
they are doing this resting... is the best time to just wade in and catch
them.
Pesce
Pronunciation: Pess-ce
Contributor: Brina
these little 5cm fish are hardly much to eat allone but they travel in
large school's and are very tasty. The scales on this little fish are
shinny silver and are used in decoration and a sybol of how wealthy you
are. the meat is a pink to bright red raw and is a pale cream color when
cooked which is how most people like them. the Pesce is a very fast fish
making it hard to catch.
Picca
Pronunciation: Pick-cah
Contributor: Brina
The Picca is a relative of the Pesce, it being larger and more muted in
color these fish are 1-2 feet long with gray scales with the rare silver
one. They are not as tasty but are slower than the fast Pesce. These are a
very common type of fish and are tender when cooked, when not cooked it is
deadly.
Raggit
Pronunciation: RAW - giht
Contributor: Tiala
Small fish with very large eyes. Usually grows to about 7" long,
black or dark blue in color. It has very poor eyesight despite its huge
eyes which can be more than 2" in diameter. Lives in dark caves deep
beneath the surface and comes out at night to feed on plankton. It can't
see in light and has poor eyesight in the dark (hence the expression
"blind as a raggit at noon") but it has such a bad taste that it
has no predators.
Retar
Pronunciation: reh-TAR
Contributor: Sabreya
Scavenging fish, about five feet in length when fully grown, resembling a
shark. They live in large groupings to better hunt together. They are very
stupid creatures, but they know well enough to leave anything alive alone.
Their only color is blue, making it extremely hard to see them in deep
waters.
They feed off small fish that they can just swallow, and anything dead.
They avoid things that are kicking or struggling because they don't want
to be hurt, which they can be easily hurt, but once the animal is assumed
dead, they move in to finish it off.
Mostly considered awful by commoners, they provide the trash service of
the sea, keeping it clean so all the dead creatures don't just wash up on
the shores.
Sea Nettles
Pronunciation: see net-lls
Contributor: Qalam
Rather like spiny sea slugs. They are around 4-8 inches long, and are
shaped like, well, like a slug. Their upper half is covered with short,
curved spines which are tipped with a mild poison (enough to numb a foot
or hurt a young human), however the main use for these spines is to latch
on to traveling objects in the water, and wander. The poison acts as a
numbing agent, so living creatures will not always know that they are
being ridden. They retract gently when the Nettle is ready to jump off.
Sea Nettles come in a variety of colors, from crappy-brown to ichor green
to annoying yellow. Their spines are usually white. Their main defense
against being eaten (as they are in fact edible) is to curl into a ball.
Spine Fingers don't care. They just nibble away until the parts fall apart
and have their fill. Sea Nettles will eat mostly plant life, however they
have been known to chow down on settling remnants of meat.
Spine Finger
Pronunciation: spyn fihng-er
Contributor: Qalam
Spine Finger fish are about the length of your forearm, but more shaped
like a football. They resemble the scorpion fish or lion fish of Earth:
they have long, spined projections off their tail, dorsal area and fins,
each of which has a bright set of stripes and is tipped with a sharp,
poison bearing spine. The poison is strong, enough to kill a young human
or severely injure an adult.
They are found exclusively in warm tropical waters, usually in the reefs
around the isles. They are NO good for food, but they are very pretty.
They feed upon pretty much anything in its path, be it scraps from above,
carcasses of something larger, living creatures, or smaller fish. They
also occasionally feed upon poisonous SeaNettles.
Tiburon
Pronunciation: tib-uhr-on
Contributor: Brina
This large blue-gray-brown tough skinned sea creature resembles the earth
creature 'the shark' in outer appearance but this 5 to 8 foot creature has
many tiny teeth that are no good on larger prey like humans. It manly eats
whatever small fish happens to come near. the Tiburon is a coward and if a
bigger creature comes along it will flee.
Quilli Fish
Pronunciation: kwil-lee fihsh
Contributor: Tershan
A brightly colored fish, much like the neon tetra, except they are about
the size of your hand. They aren't the best tasting fish, but are edible.
Due to their availability (they populate almost all of the ocean) they are
eaten often aboard cargo ships and shorelines. They taste kind of like
tuna, except not as good.
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