What follows is an passage from the journal of the famous Beastiographer Laans Torier

'Many have said the Old Men of the mountain were mere myths, or had been wiped out by the Theosians many years ago, but I am staking my reputation on the fact that they do in fact still exist!'

A farmer, handy with a bow, and if you're a bird I would advise staying far from his fields

'While traveling you stumble upon...um...you stumble upon...'

Despair! Despair! The Dread Crow’s Glare!

It is a small, lively town like so many others. Do you wonder who are the movers and shakers here?

Beware the amphibious wolves my child, and most of all, avoid the red-eyed crow!

Wieberburl, home of the peculiar Book-Fish.

While one cannot deny the beauty of the Giant Foxglove, it is tempered by the knowlage that the beauty hides its deadly nature.

'I... I only wished to help. But... I had nothing to give... save me... and this... unclean thing took advantage of it. And now I have given birth to another of the creatures. I cannot take care of it. My family would... I just can't.

May gods have mercy with it.'
The peasant girl puts the little bundle to the convent's door, rings the bell, and flees.

One of the more unnerving of fungi, 'Liche Fungus' has its uses...

A brace of sleep-related poisons.

To be a detective is not the fun it seemed.

Dire Vine has a long reach, watch your feet less they disappear from underneath you

Beware the Ice Giants of the north, they are a foul tempered bunch.

''Is not the emir himself a slave of the Allmighty? Everyone should be a slave. Unchecked freedom is a terrible curse and burden that will destroy us if we are not subject to the will of our natural superiors that have it in themselves to elevate all that is noble and proud in their slaves, while stifling that which is head-strong and foolish. Unfortunate is the free man who has no master to rule over him''.

I would have never had thought one could come to like a rattling pile of walking bones, but Tohm simply grew on me. Watching him play checkers with Formuro was always amusing - whenever he took one of Formuro’s pieces he would rattle his jaw in joy.. From the diary of Professor Ethric, faculty of Divination.

Sometimes a simple breakdown can lead to all sorts of trouble

When mans' smallest, and most deadly, enemy strikes the world is thrown back into a darker, more primitive age.

A post-apocalyptic setting for any system.

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Hachnar T' Velstrad

An insular alchemist walking two paths..