#fantasyecology

"One wakes with the dawn, the other with the stars — both strike before you ever hear them breathe. Light or dark, it doesn’t matter which finds you first." - from the journals of an unknown explorer

Bloodscrat

Only ever seen during the day. Omnivorous and the lesser of two evils. You might see one and think you're safe. You'd be wrong. They'll gut you if you come too close to their home.

Nightshivver

If you see one of these, it's too late. They are purely carnivorous and will hunt you down until you are out of energy. Their claws allow them to shred your meat from your bones before you can draw a weapon to protect yourself.

"It moves like silence, bends like smoke, and hears every heartbeat you think you've hidden." - From the journals of an unknown explorer

"They are the color of quiet thunder. Coat of every season, cry of no sound. The wilds remember its voice, even if no one else can." - From the journals of an unknown explorer

"Where they walk, the grass glows. Living lanterns that guide their own pollinators." - From the journals of an unknown explorer

"A quiet wanderer, storing water in its coat and vanishing at the faintest sound." - From the journals of an unknown explorer

"Fire in its coat, thunder in its step — this is the blaze that runs." - From the journals of an unknown explorer

"A living knot of bark and scale, vanishing into the forest until it chooses to move." - From the journals of an unknown explorer

"Quiet survivor of the canopy, the Rindlehoof only carries water and silence." - From the journals of an unknown explorer