Bestiary — God's Nest

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Bestiary

A record of the peoples and creatures of God's Nest — those who walk, burrow, drift, and dream beneath its strange sky. Some entries are complete. Others are still being written. Nothing here is the final word.

Elves

Ankhala Deep Elves

Elf ✦ Ankh Living

A subterranean people of weavers, storytellers, and ancestral vessels. Their histories are not written in books but spun in silk and carried in blood.

Gamorans Spire Elves

Elf ✦ Gamora Living

The architects and tyrants of Gamora. Tall, metallic-skinned beings whose grace masks terrifying strength and a culture built on psychic communion with a single ruling Queen.

Syralic Wood Elves

Elf ✦ Earth-Spine Living

Keepers of Earth-Spine and its ancient rootworks. Fiercely insular, they guard the secret entrance to Moonbough with their lives.

Shimmer Moon Elves

Elf ✦ Moonbough Living

Born from the Long Night, transformed within the opalized roots of a felled archtree. They dwell in the kaleidoscopic labyrinth of Moonbough, beneath Earth-Spine.

Melasani Threshold Elves

Elf ✦ Various Living

Elves who exist at the threshold between states of being. Their relationship to mortality, breath, and the living world is unlike any other people of the Nest.

Critterfolk

Critterfolk ✦ Various Living

Misnamed "orcs" by outsiders, the Teshkar are agriculturists first. Soil-turners and custodians of disturbance, their culture is fundamentally agrarian and cooperative.

Sha Sun Dogs / "Goblins"

Critterfolk ✦ Wepwawit Living

Born from a mirage made real, nurtured within an oasis by the desperation and belief of their ancestors. Wepwawit grew outward from the river Aur like rings on a tree.

Critterfolk ✦ Various Living

Forged and hatched, their origin and purpose are inseparable. Their appearance varies widely by lineage and individual development.

Critterfolk ✦ Aquatic Living

An aquatic people known for cymathurgy — the manipulation of resonance and sound. Their culture, gender, and selfhood are shaped by vibration as much as form.

Critterfolk ✦ Various Living

Moon cats. Nomadic by tradition, though many have settled. Their history is carried in the songs of their caravans and the warnings passed between wandering clans.

Extinct

Man Valravn / Vorrafen

Man ✦ The Scar Extinct

Once rulers of the Candorman Hold, humanity was wiped from God's Nest by the Cataclysm. What remains are the Valravn — those who persisted beyond the threshold of death, still living.

Sylvaniar Tree Elves / The Undivided Peoples

Elf ✦ Worldspine Extinct

The inhabitants of Worldspine before it was felled. They live on through their descendents, the Shimmer and the Syralic.

Forthcoming

Undescribed Unknown

Entry in progress.

Osrai Sea-Trolls

Undescribed Unknown

Entry in progress.

Silene-Melu Swan Maidens

Undescribed Unknown

Entry in progress.