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Wandering Pigeon Value ●●○○○ ; Size ●●○○○ Capable of memorizing up to five different paths. Where they come from, they are the cornerstone of communication networks and post houses are full of dovecotes.

Image © @chimeride, accessed at their tumblr here

[The dogai are the archetypal monster in the lore of the Torres Straits. Unfortunately, they have a lot of Google camouflage. The assassin devil from D&D 3.5 and 4e is also called the "dogai". I have no idea if this is an intentional reference, or if it's a coincidence due to how many short combinations of syllables sound good. Like a lot of good ogres, they vacillate between dangerous and stupid, so I didn't want them to be super powerful. The appearance of the image comes from Oceanic Mythology by Roland Dixon, which refers to dogai as having the face of a flying fox.]

Dogai CR 4 CE Monstrous Humanoid This creature is a bestial humanoid, with a furry body and spindly, scaled arms and legs. Its face has a long muzzle and staring eyes, and its ears are as large as its body, wrapped around it like a shawl.

The dogai are bestial hags native to tropical islands. They are of low intelligence—few of them can speak Common, and they are rather foolish and easily tricked. Still, they are malicious and dangerous as any hag, and engage in much the same behavior as other hags, such as seducing people in disguise and kidnapping children in order to eat them.

A dogai often attacks from ambush, assuming the form of a beautiful woman or a harmless animal in order to get close enough to strike. These disguises are supplemented with mimicked vocalizations, including short snatches of intelligible speech. Once in combat, they rarely use tactics more creative than full attacks, but if they have a hard time clawing or biting a foe, may lash out with magic. Dogai are cowardly, and usually try to flee if they are losing a fight.

Dogai tend to live on remote islands uninhabited by other humanoids, and then travel to wreak havoc using magic. They usually wind walk at night, and their cloudy forms look something like humanoid constellations in the dark sky. Dogai can join and make covens as other hags can. Without a more intelligent hag to act as guidance, these covens can be especially destructive, but unfocused and disorganized.

Penrose Worms Value ●●●●● ; Size ●○○○○ They feed on the fabric of reality, leaving behind wormholes, passages between different spaces and times. These pests are hunted and destroyed, but they can be purchased on black markets to create illegal portals.

Other projects are summarized here in this grimoire, but fully extended on other blogs :

The Éphéméride des Chimères (@chimeride) is a bestiary of chimeras, creatures made from animals that currently exist in our world. Started in 2018, it has > 1000 entries switching between Known Ones (tributes and interpretation of creatures that already exist) and the Unknown (original creations with contributions through suggestions). The simple format allows me to explore infinite designs, to create series inside the serie, and to cover various topics like mythology, mermaids, dragons, cryptids, goblins, paleontology, occultism or giraffes, for example.

@dudukbazaar is a transdimensional shop. Opened in 2024, new items are dropped on Sundays. Some items are related, with places mentionned like Eawy Forest or the Organian Reef. Unknown chimeras have been mentionned or sold here as items.

And here are my medecine projects. They are separated from fantasy, and are written in French (my native language) to be more accurate :

@celluloyd is a collection of ~500 figures and drawings I did between 2015 and 2017 for university. They all have been used in class for embryology, cell biology, histology, and neuroanatomy, and are posted here for free with lots of explanatory text

@celluloscope is a human body atlas with a focus on pathology, made with watercolor and started in 2022. As I am getting further in my course it has better accuracy than celluloyd, but I don't always have the energy to work on it on my free time