#pheradin

~Rough/placeholder lore~

Cucurbeetacines

Named after the cucurbitacé shape they have when full, these bees are quite peculiar. They aren't like our bees, they don't live in hive nor listen to a queen. they fill themselves with honey they feed on for long periods of times. They will go through the following cycle:

They spend a couple weeks of nearly constant feeding,

They will sit completely still up in a tree for about a month to convert all the nectar (and occasionally blood) they collected in their pouch to convert it into honey.

Once full of mature honey they will then spend the next four month or so building nests for their potential future youngs, Socialize to find a mate.

Wurburs are yet another type of oversized insects. They might look scary but they are actually harmless. They eat almost exclusively rotten fruits that the collect and store in fermentation chambers in their caves, which is rumored to be how the Volkfolks learned about alcohol.

They live in moist caves and have asocial structure somewhat similar to ants. They have a queen that lay eggs almost daily, a massive population of female workers and a small pool of male soldiers. When the queen die a random worker will grow into a new queen and a soldier will grow into a king. Like mantids, the queen will eat the king once she has been fertilized.

Bearded Striders looks quite similar to spiders but are quite different. For one they do not have 8 legs and instead of producing one string of silk from the tip of their abdomen, they instead grow their thick silk like a mammal grows hair.

These creatures were domesticated thousands of years ago for said silk and since many sub-bread have been created:

The common brown colored ones that create the lowest quality silk that account for the bulk of the fabric people have access to.

The white ones that are reserved for people with more money to spare since that silk can be dyed much more easily (brown silk can be died to but the colors are either muddy or need to be bleached first with is time consuming and deteriorate the silk quality).

The black silk variants but they are very rare and expensive.

There are even "pocket breeds" that bareby brows any bigger than a standard breed's baby and some nobles keep them as pets.

It's also not uncommon for people to use the raw silk fibers to make wigs.

Krokers are the second most important animal in Pheradin. They are easy preys that don't hibernate during winter and their winter fur is highly sought after to make warm clothes. Volkfolk could survive year-round solely on Krokers if necessary.

Krokers are solitary creatures who enjoy digging tunnels and burrows during fall seasons. In the winter when the soil is to hard and frozen they spend more time on the surface to find mates. Come spring they males are back to living alone while females can expect giving birth to a litter and spend the up coming year caring for them.