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Tallyclick
Travelers call it the Tallyclick, after the evenly spaced tapping left in the dust where it waits. Some claim the taps count the steps of approaching prey; naturalists insist the sound is simply it...
Soot-Specks
Cave guides call the motes the Soot-Specks, after the black residue left on lamps that survive an attack. Old miners insist they are not creatures at all, but the shadows shed by something too vast...
The Greenward
Old roadside songs tell of a silent guardian who never let the road grow wild. The Verdant Reliquary is what remains when such a guardian's bones become entangled with an awakened seed. Locals leav...
Azruk Sablehand
Azruk Sablehand earned his name from the glove of dark shards he wears on his left hand. He claims the fragments came from a fallen star, though his crew suspects they were cut from an old glasswor...
Goroth Mercenary
Goroth is the name used by the mercenary company for its hardiest road fighters, supposedly after the first veteran to hold a bridge alone long enough for a caravan to escape. Whether that story is...
Sand-Warped Guard
Travelers say the first Sand-Warped Guards were simply exhausted patrols hiding beneath the sand. That explanation persists because it is easier to accept than the truth: the dunes can remember a c...
Headman's Lot
The creature called the Headman's Lot is believed to have been born during Thentria's golden age, when the civilization's engineers shaped rivers and built cities that glowed beneath the earth. Its...
rashtusk
The rashtusk willingly accepted injections of dragon turtle DNA, believing the transformation would grant strength and permanence. The injections overwhelmed its body and mind. What remains is an e...
yuan-ti-gebundene Dschungelschlange
Yuan-ti wardens bound the snake to the sunken gate with a carved token and ritual roots. The binding commands it to guard the threshold, not to serve as a messenger or pursue intruders far from the...
Yuan-ti-Kundschafter
In den Diensten von Sseth-Ka bewacht dieser Kundschafter das versunkene Tor und achtet auf Reisende, die zu neugierig nach den alten Steinzeichen suchen. Die Wache ist eher Späher als Fanatiker: Si...
Saresh
Locals call the guardian Saresh, a name remembered from the first person who returned from the sunken gate with a warning instead of a wound. Saresh claims that the stone doors seal something that ...
animated armor
Animated armor is a suit of armor given the semblance of life by magic. This one serves as the watcher in the reliquary beneath Bellwether. The four wall glyphs mirror marks on its breastplate, but...
Old Man Killahead
Old Man Killahead is the name villagers give the courteous stranger who appears before a sudden death. Some claim he was once an executioner who took pride in never making a mistake. Others say he ...
Old Man 'Bad Liar'
Old Man 'Bad Liar' has appeared under dozens of names, always as a harmless traveler with an impossible story. Some say his gift began when a desperate lie saved a village from a tyrant. Others ins...
The Once-Ler
The Once-Ler began as a traveling seller with an ingenious product and a talent for persuasion. As demand grew, he expanded his operation, cutting down the groves that supplied his raw materials an...
Sally 'Six Shooter'
Stories disagree on whether Sally was a lawkeeper, an outlaw, or simply the best shot in a territory full of bad men. They agree that she died before her last duel was settled. Her spirit now follo...
Tallymark
The Thentrian civilizations built these constructs to turn forest borders into fronts and every frontier into a battlefield. Their command cores were given one simple imperative: maintain conflict ...
Wayward Windup
Travelers once mistook the courier for a wind-up trinket that had escaped a peddler's cart, and the mistaken name stuck. It was made to carry a sealed message between divine shrines. The message is...
Mount Orra
Travelers call it Mount Orra because generations of explorers mistook its motionless shell for a mountain range. The name survives even among scholars who know the truth. According to underdark leg...
Te Behomothis
Locals call it the One Who Made Me Swallow the Moon, after it once persuaded a ferryman to gulp down a glowing pond reflection as part of an experiment. The ferryman survived, but insists he dreame...
Merek's End
Merek's End is one of twelve primordial gods that existed before the ordering of the planes. The name is not its own. It comes from Merek, a mortal explorer recorded as the first person to encounte...
Old Bell
Old Bell was built generations ago by village hands from salvaged bronze, fieldstone, and the ironwork of a collapsed watchtower. It was never meant to be a weapon. It carried water, mended fences,...
Charybdis
Sailors of the Sea of Monsters tell of a mouth beneath the waves that makes the ocean run uphill. They say the first sign is not a wave but a sudden slackening of every sail, followed by the sea dr...
Ridgeborn Unbound
Ridgeborn Unbound is the name used by the researchers for this creature's original kind. This one was injected with so much dragon-derived material that its former mind was overwhelmed. The experim...
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