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Scrasamax	Aralez, the City of 10,000 Dogs By: Scrasamax The City of 10,000 dogs is famous for the variety of dogs bred there, and now someone has started stealing those dogs Locations City Desert	by Scrasamax 93^xp 3 replies 867 views 1 HoH
Murometz	Dwarven Pets By: Murometz Pets mind you. Not exotic monster companions. No saddled dire-boars to be found here. No purple worm caravans. Lifeforms Fauna Underground	by Murometz 460^xp 21 replies 5527 views 3 HoHs
Ted	Bacon the Dog By: Ted CRTF's first resident goofball animal mascot. NPCs Minor Domestic/ Craft	by Ted 195^xp 8 replies 2116 views 1 HoH
Scrasamax	Takamoto's Dogs By: Scrasamax Ingo Takamoto was first a foremost a dog lover, but was also a brilliant geneticist Lifeforms Constructed Any	by Scrasamax 95^xp 6 replies 2862 views
valadaar	An Adventurer's best Friend By: valadaar One of man's most successful domestications has been that of the dog. Even in our world, the variation that has been bred is truly astonishing. It only seems natural that a world filled with magic and the supernatural could yield even greater variety. This is a collection of some of these possibilities. Lifeforms Fauna Other	by valadaar 195^xp 9 replies 3567 views 2 HoHs

“ The Jiangsi was the name of an undead being in Chinese folklore and mythology. Usually translated as zombie or vampire for Western palates, the Jiangsi was really neither. They appeared as simply risen, fresh corpses. They moved (peculiarly!) by hopping rather than walking, and sought out the living to suck the Qilife force from their victims. Perhaps significantly more interesting than the Jiangsi itself, was the lore surrounding them. 'Zombie wranglers', or 'Corpse Herders', usually Daoist priests, were men tasked with delivering these undead beings back to their respective home towns. Tradition in China placed great importance and emphasis on the return of the dead to their homes and families, and thus the corpse herders came to be. By using magick words and talismans they would animate the dead, and by placing specially inscribed parchments of paper over the Jiangsi heads and faces, the corpse herders would be able to control the hopping corpses. Then like pied pipers, they would lead processions of subdued undead, across many miles, rhythmically chanting and ringing tiny bells. Special inns were built across China to house these undead caravans, as the zombies could only travel by evening and night, the sun anathema to them. Rows of doors opening to barely a closet-space, lined the walls of these special establishments. Behind these doors, the corpses would be stored upright while the corpse herders rested in rooms. The Jiangsi under the control of a corpse herder were quite harmless, merely hopping after him, silently and without complaint, for weeks and months. If however, the magicked parchment would somehow be removed from their faces, the creatures would immediately seek living humans to kill. Their thirst for Qi was unquenchable. The job of a corpse herder was an interesting one to say the least.”

Murometz

“ A world where, instead of aging in years, the people age in knowledge. So, instead of dying once a general age was reached, they die once they achieve a certain amount of knowledge. A man could live forever if he never learned anything, or could die after reading a few choice books. Of course, the knowledge of the land would be regulated, like medical drugs.”

Drackler

“ There are crimes for which a man is not killed, but chased into the wilds, away from his home and country, to not return or be killed on the spot. In one culture is the condemned mutilated, and even his vocal cords are damaged so that the voice is unrecognizable to his friends and family. This is the punishment for people too obsessed with their own prestige.”

manfred