CREATURES
ALL SORTS OF CREATURES
FRESH CHALLENGES
With lots of new creatures, it’s easy to find fresh challenges for your adventurers. Even better, their assigned location could be the perfect backdrop for a side quest or even a full adventure.
DROP THEM IN
In the middle of a session and you need a hungry monster or a cuddly fuzzball? The quickread summary lets you breathe life into your roleplay while maintaining the flow of the game.
FEATURES
IN-DEPTH AND
INTERCONNECTED
Creatures are woven into the fabric of the region. Each one has a motivation, even if it’s as simple as gobbling up heedless travelers. Some are misunderstood or just following their instincts. Others are rotten to the core.
BASIC INFO
Huge Beast, Unaligned
Theme: Greed and Gold
traits
Camouflage
Stealthy
Two Forms
Golden
Magical
Hungry
DESCRIPTION
Golden scales
Flowing fins
A row of golden teeth
A few nibbler fish alongside
QUEST
The millae features as part of the two-to-four-session adventure included with the setting guide, where players can choose the fate of the fish, if it doesn’t choose their fate first!
DESCRIPTION
The millae is a huge magical fish melded from hundreds of nibbler fish. The nibblers lay in wait on the beds of lakes, rivers, the ocean, luring their prey with their resemblance to gold coins. when a suitable snack is within range, the nibblers converge into the millae who swallows the victim whole. Their favourite morsel is a pirate who has fallen overboard.
BACKGROUND
It began with the pretty, whimsical Piskipasi worshippers, seekers of peace and meditation, enamoured with ornamental ponds and the languid sway of a fish’s tail.
They embarked on a holy pilgrimage picnic in search of the perfect spot for a temple and pond. The wandering picnic was a hard slog, requiring many rests under shady trees and by burbling streams, and the dutiful consumption of herbal tisanes and blessed honeycakes.
They endured despite their trials, and finally they stumbled on a wonder – nuggets of gold infused with wild magic. Then nearby, a clear lake. Their search was over. They were home.
Now came the really hard work – they shaped the walls of the lake into a perfect rectangle and decorated with banners of frolicking golden fish. An ornamental pond fit for worship and meditation.
The magic golden nuggets were sculpted into effigies of fish and released into the lake, where they animated with magic-infused life. Delighted, the Piskipasi named them nibblers.
The worshippers lived their dream, meditating, swimming, rowing, at peace in the company of the little fish. But wild magic and metals and life are a volatile mix. The Piskipasi were too foolish to notice the fish were multiplying, or that they grew hungry, and that the lake was barren of things to eat, apart from them, the Piskipasi.
One fateful day, the Piskipasi discovered their beloved nibblers were no longer swimming to and fro but lying in the silt on the lake bed. A worshipper jumped in to investigate, and there was a ravenous frothing of the water, and the hundreds of fishies merged into one huge fish, the millae, who swallowed the man whole.
The dream was over. The Piskipasi fled the lake, never to return.
What Happens to the Piskipasi?
Foolish sweet things, they soon find themselves in hot water. Can the adventurers save the day in a separate encounter included with the setting guide?
stat block
Each creature will have their stat block included in the guide