Homebrew Species, Need Articles
AQUATIC
Gutpy - Fat freshwater fish with eyes turned skyward, long colorful tails, and a hunger for algae. Often kept in public water fixtures as algae and mosquito larvae control. Silver Reservoir Goby - A staple of local cuisine in Hellmouth, the only goby species to survive the brackish water of the reservoir becoming fresh. In the absence of large predators they rapidly grew and took over the niche. They're now kept at bay with careful fishing and caviar harvest. The Reservoir Guardians - Absolutely massive amphipods that clean the reservoir, though they will appear at the surface. Red eyed, orange backed, white bellies and spiny. While disinclined to attack boats or fishing nets they may pick off a free-floating humanoid. Freshwater Reservoir Sponges - There are several species. Think Lake Baikal if it was just as weird but still shallow. The Hellmouth Hotsprings Ecosystem - Lots of different fish, that live only there. All extremely heat hardy.
Reservoir seal - Seals that live around the Hellmouth reservoir. They have faces considered either eerie or cute depending on who you ask. How a seal population became established this far inland is a mystery, but they have been isolated from coastal populations a very long time. INSECT
Glowfly - An almost bumblebee like fly with long legs that spends its larval stage in the highest parts of rapid moving, low nutrient mountain streams, most commonly in the Northern Province. They pupate in to adults on nights when the Borealis from the Sea of Lights is visible and migrate in swarms. Adults are long lived enough to reach the edge of the Sea of Lights, breed, to the mountain tops to lay their eggs, where they die of exhaustion. Their bodies turn the water to glowing streaks for about a week each year. REPTILE
Butterfly Grassfish - Not a butterfly or a fish. Hand length lizards that move in swarms, flexible ribs spreading far with colorful undersides for them to glide after jumping with powerful hind legs. Springing altogether confuses predators Titan Monitor - A uniquely massive varanid with a heavily restricted range that prowls Crackskull Gulley. AVIAN
Proto-Phoenix - The current face of conservation of endangered species in Menos. A phoenix-like bird that only nests atop Gruumsh's Fall and is facing extinction from poaching and hybridizing with the local roc population. BOTANICAL
Dead God's Fingers - A gnarled juniper tree, grows exclusively over 10,000 feet on Gruumsh's Fall. They account for the only nesting sites of the proto-phoenix. EXTINCT VARIOUS
Northern Owlbear - The largest species of Owlbear now believed to be extinct, living only in the Northern Province. They had a coat that changed with the seasons. Females were extremely aggressive since they nested in the open. Blue Aspen - A recently extinct tree lost to blight brought by invasive ornamental trees
Gutpy - Fat freshwater fish with eyes turned skyward, long colorful tails, and a hunger for algae. Often kept in public water fixtures as algae and mosquito larvae control. Silver Reservoir Goby - A staple of local cuisine in Hellmouth, the only goby species to survive the brackish water of the reservoir becoming fresh. In the absence of large predators they rapidly grew and took over the niche. They're now kept at bay with careful fishing and caviar harvest. The Reservoir Guardians - Absolutely massive amphipods that clean the reservoir, though they will appear at the surface. Red eyed, orange backed, white bellies and spiny. While disinclined to attack boats or fishing nets they may pick off a free-floating humanoid. Freshwater Reservoir Sponges - There are several species. Think Lake Baikal if it was just as weird but still shallow. The Hellmouth Hotsprings Ecosystem - Lots of different fish, that live only there. All extremely heat hardy.
- Magpie skippers - Hellmouth Bath Spring Natives attracted to shiny things that can breath air. Theh have bower-bird like teensy underwater caves in the sulphurous area of the pools where no one wants to go. They can easily climb a person and are cute enough, but they also like to try and snatch jewelry or anything else flashy.
- Bathsalt Kippers: Armored, hardly fish that school here and happily nibble away on anyone who is willing to sit still for it. They crave salts to supplement their salt-poor diets of extremophile bacteria film.
- Scrub Sturgeon - Large, slow sturgeon-like fish that trawl the sand bed slurping everything there up. They seem to be able to digest anything. Often followed by Sand Glimmer schools.
- Sand Glimmers - Fast schooling anchovy-like fish who's front half seems to be mostly their gigantic (for their size) toothless mouths. They filter feed, constantly vying to be ahead to get the best tidbits which puts them racing around fast enough that schools suddenly stop for rest all at once.
Reservoir seal - Seals that live around the Hellmouth reservoir. They have faces considered either eerie or cute depending on who you ask. How a seal population became established this far inland is a mystery, but they have been isolated from coastal populations a very long time. INSECT
Glowfly - An almost bumblebee like fly with long legs that spends its larval stage in the highest parts of rapid moving, low nutrient mountain streams, most commonly in the Northern Province. They pupate in to adults on nights when the Borealis from the Sea of Lights is visible and migrate in swarms. Adults are long lived enough to reach the edge of the Sea of Lights, breed, to the mountain tops to lay their eggs, where they die of exhaustion. Their bodies turn the water to glowing streaks for about a week each year. REPTILE
Butterfly Grassfish - Not a butterfly or a fish. Hand length lizards that move in swarms, flexible ribs spreading far with colorful undersides for them to glide after jumping with powerful hind legs. Springing altogether confuses predators Titan Monitor - A uniquely massive varanid with a heavily restricted range that prowls Crackskull Gulley. AVIAN
Proto-Phoenix - The current face of conservation of endangered species in Menos. A phoenix-like bird that only nests atop Gruumsh's Fall and is facing extinction from poaching and hybridizing with the local roc population. BOTANICAL
Dead God's Fingers - A gnarled juniper tree, grows exclusively over 10,000 feet on Gruumsh's Fall. They account for the only nesting sites of the proto-phoenix. EXTINCT VARIOUS
Northern Owlbear - The largest species of Owlbear now believed to be extinct, living only in the Northern Province. They had a coat that changed with the seasons. Females were extremely aggressive since they nested in the open. Blue Aspen - A recently extinct tree lost to blight brought by invasive ornamental trees
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