New Creature Ideas

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Name:
(I have not made one up yet)

Class: Creature-Beast (None sentient)


Class: Herbivore


Size: Anywhere from 3.048 meters (10 feet) to the largest height of an Alpha being typically 6.096 meters (20 feet) and weight in easily at 5.44 tonnes (12000 lbs) up to 15.8 tonnes (35000 lbs). Typically 6.0 meters (20 feet) in length when fully grown, with the males clearly being taller and more bulky.


Characteristics: Easy going, herbivorous creatures that eat woody plants, with the largest of these creatures routinely ripping up entire trees and devouring them. They have massive, grinding molars to accomplish their need t feed, and are protected by exceptionally thick armored plates that grow throughout their lives except upon their stomachs and extremely powerful legs. They live in herds much like cows, consisting of a single Alpha male who is the largest and protects his smaller less powerful females. When threatened, they tend to converge together and form a ring to protect any young inside this ring, and the Alpha will charge at the aggressor in a hope to scare it off. Young males are ejected from the heard and forced to live upon their own. They use their powerful horns to wrestle and establish dominance and gain mates, and have powerful nostrils to smell with but poor eyesight. They also use their main horn to rut for roots of trees underground, often plowing up and shoveling tons of soil a day.

These creatures are able to be domesticated much like cows or other grazing animals, but are usually considered to be to large of a nuisance to do so as it would require somehow capturing multiple babies including an Alpha and raising them from the youngest of days.

[Nyghtingale]

Name:

Class: Creature-Beast (None sentient)

Class: Carnivore (super predator)

Size: 3.6 meters (12 feet) tall and 10.6 meters (35 feet) long

Characteristics: These creatures are vicious, nasty and violent. They are dangerous to even seasoned beings, with thick pebbly hides impervious to most weapons and spines along their backs helping to protect them even further. They have large horns with which they battle each other alongside their twelve inch long serrated fangs and massive claws on their feet. Extremely powerful, they can use their tails to bludgeon and swing. They have incredible senses of smell, having both nostrils and Jacobson’s organs (like a snake) as well as fairly good eyesight, though they lack peripheral vision and only see what is directly in front of them. Extremely dangerous, they are best simply avoid but will focus upon prey and hunt it down viciously. Prey that escapes in to a cave or hole in the ground will find themselves at a lose, as these creatures will often use their powerful legs and wicked claws to summarily rip chunks of earth and stone from the ground to get towards their intended meal.
They creatures have exceedingly hot breath which can scald flesh but they do not breathe fire. It is rumored they are descendant from dragons and lost their wings an intelligence, however it is unknown if this is a truth or myth.

[Nyghtingale]

Name: Stripplebacks

Class: Creature-Beast (None sentient)

Class: Herbivore

Size: Typically grow to 1.3 meters (4.5 feet) tall and about 1.5 meters (5 feet) long

Characteristics: These creatures are herd beasts and extremely stupid. Typically coming in packs of fifteen to thirty creatures and there is no clear distinguishing features between males or females and they very well could be hermaphrodites as quickly as they reproduce. They are extremely dangerous despite their relatively small size and herbivorous nature. Individually they are not a threat at all, however they become a threat because there is never just a single individual. They are always in packs, and when threatened they will all charge at an individual with their facial horns. They typically either gore another creature, or often will lower their heads and scoop and individual over their frilled neck protection and over their backs where the creature will be trampled by the stampede of creatures behind them. They feed on tubers, roots, and grasses which they dig out with their wide snouts and can live upon both plains and forests.

[Nyghtingale]

Name:

Class: Creature-Beast (None sentient)

Class: Omnivore

Size: 6.096 meters (20 feet) tall and 10.6 meters (35 feet) long

Characteristics: These creatures are solitary creatures, moving alone through whatever environment they happen to be in. They do not stick to any specific environment, and wander aimlessly where ever they please. They are solitary because of their penchant for absolutely, complete stupidity. They are usually fairly docile, and anything smaller then themselves they leave alone (unless it is already dead) and the only thing most beings have to worry about is being stepped upon by accident or have their house smashed down by one of these lumbering land whales. They are solitary because their main predator (the massive lizard above) and main competitor for food (the giant armored cows things above) are about the same size as they are. These creatures upon seeing anything near their own size will instantly charge, heads lowered and upper back thrust forward to body slam in to things before turning around and attempting to pulverize their stunned prey with their boney tail. So stupid are these creatures, they have been known to body slam and attack mountains and large trees. Being omnivores, they will eat anything they can. Typically vegetation, but they will supplement this with anything dead they might find or anything stupid enough to be caught in the jaws. They have large claws for digging, and which often dig up buried things. They have thick skulls, tiny brains and extremely poor senses all around, leading them to be often hunted. Often they can be found with scars, fresh wounds, and weapons embedded in their fleshy because of their own attacks upon mountains or where something attempted to hunt and devour the sturdy creature. They seem to have no feelings of pain either, and will ignore things like a spear buried in its’ body.

[Nyghtingale]

Name:

Class: Creature-Beast (None sentient)

Class: Carnivore

Size: 1.0 meter (3.5 feet) tall and 1.5 meters (5 feet long)

Characteristics: These monsters are clearly horrific mutations, however it is unknown how they truly began. Whether a genetic experiment gone bad, or a freak natural mutation able to continue propagating these beasts are horribly disfigured and will always be so. Each one is different, with different atrophied limbs and appendages jutting out in odd angles and places. The only truly universal trait about them is the fact that they all have the same general canine shaped appearance with four normal legs, a body, and head and a tail that is almost like an insect’s abdomen. These creatures are chimeras, not in the sense that they are multiple different kinds of creatures but in the sense they are literally multiple creatures inside one body. A genetic fluke result where all the fertilized eggs of the female creature joined together to create a single chimera monster instead of the typical canine litter. This means that not every one of the monsters is the same, as each monster is composed of different numbers of litter mates (but they have only one typical set of DNA of their own, meaning they can still reproduce). So only one pup is born with each pregnancy, and that pup’s survival is not always guaranteed, yet their numbers remain fairly high and so they must be surviving fairly well.

These monsters are of average danger individually, with the individual creature’s composition causing level of danger to fluctuate. Their danger comes in the fact that these monsters hunt in packs with the pack ranging from three to twenty individuals. Just like a wolf pack, they coordinate and work together to bring down prey while showing an incredible sense of intelligence with the ability to apparently think ahead, even setting up traps for prey.

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Name: Land Sharks

Class: Creature-Beast (None sentient)

Class: Carnivore

Size: 1.5 meters (5 feet) to 6.0 meters (20 feet) long, standing about 1.8 meters (6 feet) tall.

Characteristics: Land sharks are exactly like their aquatic brethren, simply having lungs instead of gills and legs. They are predators, through and through. With the ability to smell blood from over a mile away, they typically hunt alone though sometimes will congregate upon a large kill although this is extremely rare. They have large scutes (scales) upon their body instead of the usually shark skin, to protect them upon the land where other predators might attack them or objects might scratch them while moving around. They are extremely aggressive, with rows of serrated fangs and that are constantly falling out and being replaced, powerful claws on each foot, and with their thick scaled hide and sense of smell they are not a danger to be taken lightly.

”When there is blood in the water, the sharks will come.”

[Nyghtingale]

Name: Grechins

Class: Creature-Beast (None sentient)

Class: Carnivore

Size: 1.2 meters (4 feet) long

Characteristics: Grechins are long skinny creatures that typically hang from trees from ten spindly claw like legs. They have a small, ugly face with a long forked tongue and big pointed bat eyes. They hunt by typically hanging from tree branches, waiting for food to pass below them. At this point, they will reach down and snatch up their prey with two long arms ending in two fingers each tipped with claws. They haul their prey back up in to the safety of the tree where they devour it with their maw of needle like teeth. Occasionally, they will drop upon larger prey from the branch, their double jointed legs swiveling around beneath themselves from their typical upwards position and they will use their claw like legs and teeth to bite, stab, and slash at the larger prey in an effort to kill it. The males have a bright red throat, which they use in their courtship displays to attract a female. Young are born, three pups to a birthing, and sit securely upon their mother’s “back” up away from the ground for several months being feed before they are sent away to fend for themselves. They are not territorial, and several could be hanging in the same tree or even on the same branch though they tend to ignore each other in such instances.

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Name: Hissing Terror

Class: Creature-Beast (Semi-sentient)

Class: Carnivore

Size: 2 meters (6 .5 feet) tall and 3.6 meters (12 feet) long

Characteristics: The Hissing Terror is exactly what its name calls it: a terror. Little is known about the creature because almost everybody who has ever encountered one dies. The creature has huge eyes, for seeing in the darkened environments it prefers such as deep woods or inside of caves. It is unknown if the creature is magical or not, however it the creature seems to appear and disappear like a wraith. It rumored the creature actually has the ability to turn invisible through magic, though some theorize that instead of magic the Hissing Terror in fact has skin like a chameleon and is able to simply change the color of its scaly hide to mimic the environment around it to blend it and sneak up upon prey. Whatever the truth, it seems to give the Hissing Terror a major advantage, and coupled with twelve inch dagger like talons makes it one of the most dangerous creatures anybody will ever encounter because of the fact the creature remains almost completely invisible until it strikes and it has been known to have the strength to violently rip a beings limps from their body.

[Nyghtingale]

Name: Yurk

Class: Creature-Beast (None Sentient)

Class: Herbivore

Size: 2 to 3.5 m (6.6 to 11.5 ft) long, usually standing 1.5 to 1.8 meters (4.9 to 5.9 feet) tall upon the shoulder. The horns of the bulls very, but can be as much as 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) tall as well.

Characteristics: The Yurk is a cold adapted bovine creature, living in the icy cold of mountains and plains much like the Earth bison. It has thick leathery flesh that helps protect it from the wind and ice of its typical habitat, while shaggy fur covers the legs and stomach. Spines erupt from the hump of the beast, along with two massive horns that curve upwards from the skull. Aside from mating reasons, these horns have another unique feature. As the snow, ice, and wind blow past the horns and spines energy is built up along them. This energy is can then later be directed forwards in an electrical blast to defend the animal and its herd. A large herd, when viewed from a far, will emit a soft humming sound from all the energy built up by the creatures and will even make the hair of an individual near them stand upon edge.

[Nyghtingale]

Name: Greeven

Class: Creature-Beast (None Sentient)

Class: Omnivore

Size: 4.5 meters (15 feet) long, with a body diameter of 1.5 meters (5 feet)

Characteristics: The Greeven is an unusual creature. Resembling nothing more than a massive caterpillar crossed with some sort of mutant earthworm, the creature is nasty by all accounts. Large, slimy, and with an odor that will turn even the most hardest of stomach the Greeven moves like a massive inch worm across the ground, only with the ability to move much faster (24.2 km/h or 15 mph). It is a vicious predator, though lacks any sort of intelligence and attacks blindly attempting to rip massive chunks of flesh from the bodies of victims with a massive gaping fang filled maw. The unusual pseudopodium upon the back of the creature is used for multiple reasons: locomotion, reproduction, and a spiny whipping weapon. Greeven tend to inhabit forests and jungles, preferring the more damp environments there. They do produce their own heat, but when it gets cold they are known to congregate inside caverns together for warmth.