In the heart of the storm dwell the aerial creatures known as tempest blades.

Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons?
or his head with fish spears?

A reptilian race of space-travelers whose addiction to a drug they need for survival leads them to a less than stellar reputation.

Gate Hounds, also known as Temple Dogs to the South, are a breed apart from most hounds. These gifts from The Others

Captain, I see two dozen general displacement ships just coming into sensor range outside the system. There is no warp signature sir.

How Odd. Helmsman lay in an intercept course and let us investigate.

Beware these shrub-sized gaurdians of the forest.

*Sphhisshh* *Sphhissh* *Sphhissh*

The D'athri took to space in such a way to make Terrans look "gun shy". They can be found in small numbers in and around every space port in Known Space.

Small, ugly, bad tempered and of limited use, yet perhaps the most common of bound demons.

Representing a primal force of nature which wants to strangle and slay all humanity, to bury their works beneath the roots of trees and their bodies as fertilizer.

Their wyrm tainted blood and slaver ways mark them as not Human. These are the Evil of the Old World. They are Dylori.

Colossal Water Lilies

Sometimes, the places remember. Where Destiny's threads intertwine, echoes of the past live again.

Van Torxus first line of defense against intruders into his realm.

At that moment the drizzle eased, and Ledoik could see as plain as day a blight upon the fields near the edge of the forest. Like a rock dropped into a pond, a wave of lighter shades of green emanated from the blights centre. Growing from the forest, where it was darkest, the field got lighter and lighter the further away it was from the blight. It was clear enough. The commander barked words, organising the archers, the few catapults they had and the giant rockslings to this side of the battlements. He motioned them to aim towards the blight, the dark patch near the fields edge

Named Timberwings; for the girth and strength of their wings were as elder oaks, thick and tireless

Of fire, but not elementals. Short-lived, yet intelligent. Bound to this world they are, more than most of its mortal inhabitants.

Dont mind him, he's just a rag man

Clochardshire resident, common quote

Gentlemen, BEHOLD! The celestial spider!

To experience liberation in the arms of Goran, one must first await the coming of the Uroghi..