Bestiary

Charuck

• Lifespan: 120-160 years
• Length: 12-25 meters (40-80 feet)
• Weight: 6-15 tonnes
• Native to Raana: Yes

The charuck is a large reptilian predator that stalks its prey in dense jungles. They are seldom found in mountainous regions or on open fields. There are many different kinds; the Academy has listed at least 20 different sub-species, differing widely in size and appearance.

Chanoga Wasp

• Lifespan: 3-5 years
• Length: 30-40 centimeters (12-15")
• Wingspan: 60-80 centimeters (25-30")
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• Native to Raana: Yes

The chanoga wasp is one of Raana's few native flying creatures, dwelling mostly in regions of high altitude (3,000+ meters). It's extremely rare, thankfully, as its aggressiveness is a thing of legend.

Narlet

• Lifespan: 6-12 years.
• Length: 15-40 centimeters (10-15")

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• Native to Raana: Yes

A narlet is a small rodent-like creature common in all of Irendoria. It's ragged fur and bony structure make the creature uninteresting for most hunters - only a handful of destitute tribalists are known to frequently hunt the animal

Wrool Cats

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• Weight: up to 100kg
• Native to Raana: Yes

A cat-like, leopard-sized predator native to Raana. Widespread, fierce, and bold enough to enter cities. They can hunt in small family packs, and can be dangerous.

Beryll Monkeys

• Latin name: Inexor valacae
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• Weight: up to 200kg
• Native to Raana: Yes

Ape-like creatures native to the Irendorian continent. Lots of rumors circulate about these beings, many of them lurid, and some motivated by a desire to demonize them to justify exterminating them, as they live in forests which some humans would like to chop down for timber. It seems likely they are more intelligent than the Earth gorillas that they equal in size: they are said to have language, live in villages, create and use tools, have some form of religion, and trade gemstones with humans. The rumors about their males' taste for human women, and the enormous size of their genitals, may also be true.

Thought to be most likely responsible for the "Beryll pottery culture", dated by its artefacts to the brief period 5,000-4,750 BHE.

Boars

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Plentiful in wetlands, where they can be hunted safely.

Vermer rats

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Pests that occasionally boom in numbers to form plagues which devastate human crops and food stores.

Tar snakes

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• Length: 100m+
• Weight: hundreds of tons?
• Native to Raana: yes

Gigantic, elongate, lizard-ish creatures, far bigger than any animal ever evolved on Earth. Capable of standing up to even large bodies of soldiers equipped with the best weapons; their defenses seem not merely physical. One was recently responsible for a recent incident on the Haalu Plateau which dealt a severe blow to the Chancellor's elite space marine force. Stay well away.

"The Degosa tar pit is famous for the Haalu incident in September 2488, when 120 space marines were sent to destroy a large tar snake dubbed "The Degosa Demon". They failed miserably, and the 500-foot serpent pulled over 70 marines into the depths of its dark abode. Those who survived, came back... changed. Most subsequently rejected the call to go back into service even though refusal to guard the Spheremasters equals a death sentence once you have taken the space marine oath."