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<blockquote data-quote="RoughCoronet0" data-source="post: 8495303" data-attributes="member: 7031665"><p>So I'm a bit of a fan of coming up with all kinds of creatures to populate my stories and worlds. Mythological creatures, strange beasts from various forms of media, and even taking a typical D&D creature and putting a twist on them. So I figured I'd share a couple of them here, and invite others to share some of their own creatures. </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><u>Drasill</u></strong></span></p><p>Drasill are undead that roam the lands of the Ethereal Plane and can cross over to the Material Plane of Salvera. Their common appearance is that of an eight-legged corpse-like horse with greenish-gray skin illuminated by a ghostly green mane and tail that whips around like flames. Similar flames cover the creatures hooves and lick up the lower legs, and the Drasill's face is skeletal with glowing green flames acting as the creature's eyes. However, Drasill are known to shift their equine appearance around other creatures. Sometimes they look like eight-legged nightmares with shadowy black coats, demonic faces and bathed in hellfire. Sometimes they instead look like ghostly white stallions with warm blue flames, or powerful steeds who's coats are aglow with golden radiance and their manes like holy fire. Sometimes they look to be little more then an incorporeal horse-like wisp or an animated skeleton with flames of various colors. </p><p></p><p>Despite their undead appearance these creatures are benevolent, intelligent, and have been seen appearing before those lost in dark and dangerous places to ride them to safely. Though they will aid the living, it's the souls of the recently departed that they go above and beyond to protect and carry, and they are often attracted to places where much death has occurred. When they encounter the souls of the recently deceased, they will shift their appearance to match the disposition of the soul and use their calming aura to coax the soul to mount them, where they then ferry the soul to it's respected afterlife, making it one of the few creatures to be able to enter any and all of the realms of the deity-like entities of Salvera. This makes Drasill the favored creatures of Letheus, Guardian of the Boundless and the being in charge of the cycle of life, death, and reincarnation and ensures that the souls of all mortal go to their proper and desired afterlife. </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><u>Ash Guardians</u></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Ash Guardians are a more intelligent breed of Gray Renders created by one of the previous Orc rulers of Agravak, empire of the Ash Orcs and various Goblinoids. Said ruler was a powerful war mage who wished to breed all manner of beasts in order to protect his people from the many monsters that roamed the wild lands of the empire, with the Gray Render being his most successful attempt. He discovered a way to increase the creature's intelligence and allowed them to utilizes limited forms of magic. However, when the Orc war mage discovered that his Gray Render brood became intelligent enough to speak Orcish and properly communicate, he decided to raise them as if they were orc children and fully integrated them into Orc society. All Ash Guardians trace their lineage back to this original brood, and all Ash Guardians are treated as honored members of the empire, acting as powerful protectors. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Ash Guardians share the same physical appearance as typical Gray Renders, however their bodies are adorn in various glyphs and markings that relate to their lineage, which town or city they protect, and their magical capabilities. All Ash Guardian have sorcerer-like spell abilities, typically associated with a specific element type which they use to ward off all manner of monsters.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoughCoronet0, post: 8495303, member: 7031665"] So I'm a bit of a fan of coming up with all kinds of creatures to populate my stories and worlds. Mythological creatures, strange beasts from various forms of media, and even taking a typical D&D creature and putting a twist on them. So I figured I'd share a couple of them here, and invite others to share some of their own creatures. [SIZE=6][B][U]Drasill[/U][/B][/SIZE] Drasill are undead that roam the lands of the Ethereal Plane and can cross over to the Material Plane of Salvera. Their common appearance is that of an eight-legged corpse-like horse with greenish-gray skin illuminated by a ghostly green mane and tail that whips around like flames. Similar flames cover the creatures hooves and lick up the lower legs, and the Drasill's face is skeletal with glowing green flames acting as the creature's eyes. However, Drasill are known to shift their equine appearance around other creatures. Sometimes they look like eight-legged nightmares with shadowy black coats, demonic faces and bathed in hellfire. Sometimes they instead look like ghostly white stallions with warm blue flames, or powerful steeds who's coats are aglow with golden radiance and their manes like holy fire. Sometimes they look to be little more then an incorporeal horse-like wisp or an animated skeleton with flames of various colors. Despite their undead appearance these creatures are benevolent, intelligent, and have been seen appearing before those lost in dark and dangerous places to ride them to safely. Though they will aid the living, it's the souls of the recently departed that they go above and beyond to protect and carry, and they are often attracted to places where much death has occurred. When they encounter the souls of the recently deceased, they will shift their appearance to match the disposition of the soul and use their calming aura to coax the soul to mount them, where they then ferry the soul to it's respected afterlife, making it one of the few creatures to be able to enter any and all of the realms of the deity-like entities of Salvera. This makes Drasill the favored creatures of Letheus, Guardian of the Boundless and the being in charge of the cycle of life, death, and reincarnation and ensures that the souls of all mortal go to their proper and desired afterlife. [SIZE=6][B][U]Ash Guardians[/U][/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Ash Guardians are a more intelligent breed of Gray Renders created by one of the previous Orc rulers of Agravak, empire of the Ash Orcs and various Goblinoids. Said ruler was a powerful war mage who wished to breed all manner of beasts in order to protect his people from the many monsters that roamed the wild lands of the empire, with the Gray Render being his most successful attempt. He discovered a way to increase the creature's intelligence and allowed them to utilizes limited forms of magic. However, when the Orc war mage discovered that his Gray Render brood became intelligent enough to speak Orcish and properly communicate, he decided to raise them as if they were orc children and fully integrated them into Orc society. All Ash Guardians trace their lineage back to this original brood, and all Ash Guardians are treated as honored members of the empire, acting as powerful protectors. Ash Guardians share the same physical appearance as typical Gray Renders, however their bodies are adorn in various glyphs and markings that relate to their lineage, which town or city they protect, and their magical capabilities. All Ash Guardian have sorcerer-like spell abilities, typically associated with a specific element type which they use to ward off all manner of monsters.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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