Full Description
The Chungwa Wolf is a large canine that reaches three to four feet at the shoulder and generally twice that in length. The canine species is easily recognized for the glossy orange color of it’s coat and the often jagged black marking that cover it. These are not the stripes of a tiger, but more like half geometric shapes in the fur that help the wolf break up against it’s natural envirment of sun stunted scrub and rolling sand dunes. The snout is long and has a leathery appearance, while the neck sports a pair of ridges that follow the curve of the jawline and give the animal the appearance of having horns.

Additional Information
Chungwa wolves are common along the edge of the Wastelands can for a short time, no more than a few days, leave those boundaries. As such, they are among the few animals of the Wastelands that are well known. The hides and pelts of Chungwa wolves command a healthy price on the market both for their vibrant color and for the fact that the wolf is a dangerous predator of the Wastelands.

The bite of a Chungwa is very poisonous, though this poison is rarely fatal in and of itself. The bite area swells and becomes numb, with the numb sensation creeping through the body. Once the numbing reaches the torso, the bite victim is often left weak and unable to move or coordinate their movements. In the wild, the wolf uses the bite to help it hunt, as it has a taste for blood and rarely if ever turns up a chase at a hot, screaming meal. Some alchemists have sought this poison to distill it into a pain killer, though have met only frustration and fleeting promise of success.

Origins
The Chungwa wolves descended from Imperial Mastiffs and other canines, many with wolf-like appearances. When the Nightmare War decimated the human population and destroyed most of the infrastructure hundreds of dogs and wolf hybrids were left to fend for themselves. Lacking human intervention and hunting magically tainted prey, those precursor wolves would eventually spawn the orange coated Chungwa wolf that now prowls the Wastelands.

Roleplaying Notes and Plot Hooks
The Chungwa wolf can be easily used along the lines of the genre common Dire Wolf, the main differences being it’s anesthetic/paralytic bite, and it’s vibrant color. This bite allows them to hunt much larger prey, or prey to strong or fast to overcome by brute force.

Great Orange Hunter - An NPC has since decided to go afield and hunt him some Chungwa wolves, part to add the pelts to his wall, part to add to his prestige as a hunter, and part to secure a few pups to add to his kennels. The PCs are involved in being part of a retinue of a pompus noble, protecting him from wild wolves and other beasts, and then trying to deal with keeping live wild wolf pups under control until they are turned over to kennel masters.

A Taste of Blood - Ever so often, an extraordinary wolf emerges from the pack, growing to two or even five times the size of a normal wolf. This beast of a wolf becomes the focus of multiple packs of Chungwa wolves, and under it’s direction, they ravage far from their usual haunts. This superior wolf has greatly enhanced intelligence, though not capable of speech, and can exhibit almost mind control like dominance over other wolves. Insert threatened village, or sorcerous demand for the beast.

The Wolf Whisperer - A druid or shaman has garnered the trust of a chungwa wolf pack and has since been running feral with the beasts. Now, he has turned his sights on civilization, and rather than bring it down into chaos and anarchy of the wild, he wants to move the wolves into the lands of the settled, to displace the common wolves with what he considers superior animals. Conflict arises as these wolves are more dangerous, plus the local druids, rangers and such are not fond of their familiar tiber and brown wolves being replaced by an unnatural predator.

Full Description
The Dogo-Kalamu is a large ground bird vaguely reminiscent of the pheasant of quail, except weighing sixty to eighty pounds, being flightless, and having a disposition much like a badger with a toothache and a sour stomach. The avians have an overall brown color with males displaying rare color in the breeding season. Females are about 20% larger and retain a drab color year round. On rare occasions, small clutches of pint size Dogo-Kalamu chicks can be found following along a single parent.

Additional Information
The Dogo-Kalamu were once just pheasants and quail, but nearly ten centuries of constant exposure to tained magic have left the birds much larger, flightless, and highly territorial. There are several factors to the Dogo-Kalamu that make it a valuable resource to the brave souls to dare to enter the Wastelands.

Dogo-Kalamu meat is safe to eat and the bird itself, while aggressive and mean spirited is not horribly difficult to fend off or kill. A single Dogo can produce as much meat as a similarly sized deer. As an added bonus, Dogo eggs are rich in protein, and having a turquoise iridescent color, are prized for making delicate jewelry. Dogo birds also instinctively know where shelter and water can be found so canny explorers often follow the birds to find where they roost. Dogo feathers are also very tough and durable, and if used to make a cloak or cape, offer good protection from direct sunlight and wind blown sand.

The Kubwa-Kalamu
Often mistaken for another species, the Kubwa-Kalamu is an unusually large Dogo-Kalamu, often as large as a full grown man and only about a foot shorter. These giant Dogo tend to exist as leaders of rare Dogo-Kalamu squadrons. These groups of birds tend to have large ranges and like the Chungwa Wolf can leave the boundaries of the Wastelands for short periods of time. All Kubwa-Kalamu are alpha females, and most of their squadrons are male suitors hoping for a chance to breed.

Roleplaying Notes and Plot Hooks
The Dogo-Kalamu can be used in most any open desert like setting, the wastelands setting isnt set in stone. Unlike ostriches, the Dogo is a predator that will defend itself and it’s chicks.

White meat or dark? - While exploring the desert regions, the PCs are able to rest and eat with some locals, the dinner being a dogo cooking on a spit. The locals (insert suitable tribal folk) teach the PCs in theory how ot track, hunt, kill, clean, and cook a Dogo. Later on as they continue their voyage, the PCs are required to hunt for food, or go hungry. Here chicky chicky chicky

Goblin… cavalry? - a group of somewhat addle-pated goblins have managed to get a flock Dogos tame enough to ride like hell-bound war steeds. While they are fast, discipline is low, and the Dogos are just as likely to turn on the goblins as on their foes.

The Dogo-Whisperer - A sun baked wise man can communicate with the Dogos and virtually lives as one of them. The problem is that the PCs have been tasked with bringing the hermit back from the wild for a greater responcibility (next in line for leadership, has a secret, needs to teach the duke’s son the Dogo Dance)

Full Description
The Janim are an enigma of the Wastelands, part plant and part animal. The outer rind is thick and green, covered with sharp spines and thorns, and unless given close inspection looks like nothing more than a common cactus of other desert plant. If cut, the plant bleeds a runny greenish sap and emits a thin wail. If the core of the plant is cut into, it bleeds red blood and screams and flails about with thorny limbs.

Should they decide to become mobile, the Janim resembles a comical humanoid, pot bellied with stumpy arms and legs. The eye spots are limited at best, but the creature can see and smell well enough to avoid hunting areas and to get out of the way of more dangerous predators. Barely three feet tall, they are only a threat to lone travelers, or those weakened by exposure to the desert.

Additional Information
The origin of the Janim is not exactly known, but they are found across the sandy and rocky parts of the desert Wastelands. They are a hybrid of both plant and animal, with dual circulatory systems (blood and sap) and the ability to survive by photosynthesis and root absorption as well as consuming organic matter through a primitive stomach like sack. Like the fish-like Samaki the Janim are bottom rung creatures in the Wastelands, primarily prey for larger herbivores and predators.

The Janim has two methods of self preservation. The most direct method is that the creature can uproot itself and run away with surprising alacrity. Most humans would be hard pressed to catch a Janim at full run. The second method is that developed janim can throw their thorns, often three or four times before exhausting their supply. These thorns are a nuisance most of the time, but are incredibly painful to catch in the eye, nostrils, and mouth. Janim do tend to aim for the face.

Janim Fruit
Large and bulbous red pods, janim fruit are highly coveted by most intelligent creatures. The spongy flesh of the fruit is very nourishing, and the juice inside has a minor restorative effect, much like a weak curative spell. The seeds inside pass easily through the digestive system and a few days after being ‘expelled’ sprout to grow into new Janim.

Full Description
Giant condors, measuring nearly sixty foot from wingtip to wingtip, these megaraptors are the undisputed lords of the Wasteland skies. They feed on the beasts of the ground, and anyone foolish enough to enter their domains. Being large and aggressive condors, they have dark brown plumage with a few scattered white feathers. Their beak is large and well developed, suited for ripping at thickly armored hides, be that armor bony plate, bristling quills, or chain and plate mail.

Additional Information
Unlike the Chungwa Wolf or the Dogo-Kalamu, the Kisundege Eagle offers little in the way survival supplies. the flesh of the bird is gamey and quickly spoils, and given the avian’s penchant for nesting in the highest possible locations, their eggs are nearly impossible to reach.

Drenched as they are in hoary magic from the tainted wastelands, the Kisundege Eagle demonstrates several innate magical abilities that are unique to it. The most devastating of these abilities is that the avian can to a limited extent command the air and wind to do it’s bidding. The most common speculated use of this ability is to aid in flying. The most painful use of the wind is for generating whirlwinds and dust storms to confuse, and disorient their prey.

Also known as Stormwind Condors, or Eagles, the feathers of the bird are given special value, both as ingredients for magic spells relating to wind and desert magics, but also as light but strong arrow shafts.

Full Description
The Samaki is a desert fish, a strange and impropable creature that swims through loose sand the way that most fish swim through the water. Unlike their aquatic kin, the Samaki have short and stubby fins that are more suited for piling through sand than water. The body retains a sleek profile and the mouth is noted for being large and well stocked with ripping teeth. The most common coloration is a dusky tan color mottled with metallic glints of silver and blue.

The average Samaki is no more than two feet long and as wide as a hand. There are two variations, however. The Bull Samaki can reach a size of some six feet and is as aggressive as a shark and capable of removing lower legs, arms to the elbow and smaller animals in a single bite. Thankfully, these Bull Samaki are rare.

Additional Information
When the Nightmare war ripped through the Old Empire, many nobles kept stocked fish ponds and rare aquariums. As the tainted magic tore arable farmland in baked desert, it also reshaped the Samaki into desert sand swimmers. They retain water with incredible efficiency and are constant hunters, scavenging for carrion, pools of blood, insects, and the exposed hands and feet of the unwary.

As such, the Samaki play a dual role in the churning food chain of the desert Wastelands. The primary role is as a base food supply. The Chungwa wolves, and Dogo are more than willing to feast on basking Samaki, and many would be explorers have been able to survive by baiting and catching samaki and eating their bitter flesh. The second role is that of a scavenger and general refuse remover, cleaning up rotting corpses and other organic debris.