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Creatures
There
are many unique creatures and monsters, both magical and non-magical, in
Greyfeather,
one
of the most common being rocs.
Kensak
I, landing on the coast of Greyfeather for the first time, observed
that the area was covered almost entirely with grey feathers dropped by
the huge birds roosting on the coast. The elves who greated Kensak
when he landed told him that the rocs were everywhere along the coast,
coating the coastline almost all the way around the island with grey feathers,
giving
the island it's name.
The
following are more rare creatures known to inhabit Greyfeather.
Utbird
Seglek
Forest
Dragon
Diamond
Dragon
Grey
Dragon
Utbird:
An Utburd is the ghost-like form of a child who died by horrid means and
it's spirit could not gain release to depart the land. They are extremely
rare and evil by nature. It usually manifests itself in ghost form,
attacking with its hands and causing severe cold damage as well as a Death
Cry, the cry of a child that turns into a wail. Those who hear the
Death Cry can be frozen in fear, at which time, the Utburd will attempt
to enter the body of it's victim. The Utburd's personality is then
switched with the victim and only a Restoration spell by a cleric of patriarch
level or higher, cast at the time of the possession can reverse this.
At Utburd that is in non-corporeal form can only be struck by magical or
silver weapons. An Utburd can be turned by a clerics, who can then
attempt to grant the Utburd release by casting Remove Curse on it.
Seglek:
Seglek's are a hybrid race, accidentally created by an evil mage during
the Age of Heroes. He collected
the blood of orcs, ogres, bugbears and trolls. After mixing the blood
and casting the proper Necromantic spells, the Seglek was born. They
proved to be great warriors, with the intelligence to become wizards and
wisdom to become shaman's, but their temperment was unstable and the wizard
found them near impossible to control. Eventually, they killed the
mage who created them and formed their own tribal culture. With the
troll blood they found they had regenerative powers. They prefer
using polearms as weapons, but are capable of using almost any weapon.
Although they formed their own tribe, reproduction was difficult, with
only 1 in every 4 Seglek child surviving to adulthood, so their numbers
aren't large. They can be found in the mountains and hills of Greyfeather.
Forest
Dragon: The Forest Dragon is a castoff
of the normal dragons. It began as a dragon born without wings.
The creature was shunned by the flight dragons, left to die in the forest.
To the dragons surprise, the castoff survived in the forest and lived a
normal life. It learned to hate it's winged brothers as well as all
living creatures. In a rare display of creationism from the Shadow
Queen, to propigate the species for her own ends, she created a female
wingless dragon. Forest Dragons are built powerfully due to having
to walk across land on all fours, which gives them a powerful attack of
claw/bite/tail sweep. The Forest Dragon can swallow an opponent of
medium size or smaller whole.
Diamond
Dragons: Diamond
Dragons are the rarest dragon type in Greyfeather. According to most
Greyfeather sages, there are only 25 known to exist. They rarely
interfere in human affairs, preferring to remain to themselves, sometimes
even shunning other dragons, seeing them as inferior. The breath
weapon of a Diamond Dragon is a shower of razor sharp glass shards in a
cone . As they age, they gain additional powers. The Diamond
Dragon can employ up to 6 attacks at a time in combat. It can use
claw/claw/bite/wing buffet/wing buffet/tail sweep, if the situation presents
itself. Since it is intelligent, it will usually attempt to parley
before entering into combat. Due to the shape and hardness of it's
scales, there is a chance that, if a spell is cast directly at it, it will
rebound back at the caster. Since it is a gem dragon, it is psionically
capable.
Grey
Dragon: Grey
dragons are an abomination created by the famed wizardress, Nedora,
known as the Shadow Queen.
She thought she could take tissue from each of the evil dragons and use
it to create a super dragon. In part, she succeeded, but she found
that she could not control the result and it almost destroyed her.
The two surviving Grey Dragons fled to the mountains and began to procreate.
Luckily, their mating cycle is short and the success rate of hatchlings
isn't overly good, or the land would be flooded with these evil beasts.
Despite their powerful claw attacks, the Grey Dragons are two headed, which
means they gain two bite attacks and they can never be surprised, as one
head is always alert. Even with their powerful physical attacks,
it's their breath weapon that is the most feared. It is a black cloud
of negative energy, which drains away levels of experience to those caught
in the cloud. It must be noted, this beast has two heads, which means
it can use it's breath weapon twice in the same combat round. So
far, there is no actual count of how many of these horrid beasts exist.
~G~
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