There are a plethora of various creatures that can be encountered in Avalia, some more intelligent than others.
Animals that can be found on earth that are known to exist in Avalia
Hares, rabbits, bunnies
Chipmunks, squirrels, and other small rodents
Wolves, wolverines, domestic dogs, foxes, coyotes
Various species of bears
Some species of ducks, flamingos, and birds
Lynxes, bobcats, cougars/mountain lions, leopards, jaguars domestic cats
Deer, elk, moose, camel, antelope
Species of reptiles and amphibians such as lizards, snakes, frogs, toads, alligators, and crocodiles.
Most species of insects as well as scorpions and tarantulas
Harmless Creatures: Danger Level 1
Pixies
Appearance: Their skin, hair, and eyes come in shades of natural colors including the greens of the leaves and grass or the browns and bronzes of the dirt and trees and even spans into the reds and yellows of the autumn.
Size: They are often the size of a firefly, often being confused with one.
Location found: Forest areas.
Carbuncle
Appearance: Fox-like creatures with a red gemstone on their forehead.
Size: Ranging from a house cat to twice the size of it. Location found: Forests and small caves
Additional Info: Due to how much the gemstones sell in the market, they're almost hunted to extinction. They ward off predators and hunters by emitting a very bright flash of light from their gemstones to blind them and run away. Legends say they came from another land.
Flame-Winged Fowlkin
Appearance: Flightless birds, the Avalian equivalent of chickens. The feathers on their wings look like flames, their way of warding off predators by making them seem like a phoenix.
Size: As big as a chicken. Male fowlkens are more slender while females are fatter.
Location: All farms in Avalia and in a bunch of forests
Additional Info: They're raised in farms for their meat and eggs.
Giant Yornis
Appearance: Huge flightless birds. Fat. Size: Reaches up to 13 feet Location found: Forests but mostly grasslands and farms
Additional Info: One of a predator's favorite creature to hunt. They're also raised in farms and are popular in markets due to their fatty meat. Scares easily.
Sweetkins
Appearance: Adorable little rodent-like creatures.
Size: Grows to almost twice the size of a hamster Location found: Homes and forests
Additional Info: Likes to gnaw on twigs and small branches. They only eat berries, tree sap, fruits, and honey. Gatherers use sweetkins as their sense of scent is so effective in determining safe-to-eat berries from the poisonous ones. They're also kept as pets too.
Ergen
Appearance: Similar to a reindeer, but with many more horns on its head and a furry chest.
Size: About the size of a reindeer
Location found: Taigas
Additional Info: Ergens travel in packs consisting of three to twenty members. Hunters hunt them for their firm meat and thick fur which are effective in keeping heat in their bodies.
Jackalope
Appearance: Rabbits with horns growing from their head.
Size: As big as a wild rabbit
Location found: Grasslands and mostly forests
Additional Info: Prevalent in getting their horns stuck on trees, leaving them more exposed to hunters and predators.
Long-Tailed Lorfen
Appearance: It looks like a horned kitten with a lion tail and no irises. Instead of paws, there are talons.
Size: About 2 feet, excluding their long tails
Location found: Forests
Additional Info: Small nocturnal creatures that hunt for berries and small insects. Sensitive to light due to their eyes.
Owlcat
Appearance: They look like cats with owl heads, feathers and wings, complete with paws and a tail.
Size: Little bigger than the average cat
Location found: Forests
Additional Info: They have the same diet as a cat.
Horned Alamoo
Appearance: Looks like a horned minx
Size: Size of a minx or ferret
Location found: Forests, taigas
Frogfly
Appearance: A bug-sized frog with a curly salamander-like tail, and colorful pink detailing, and wings.
Size: Little bigger than a pixie
Location found: Forests, taigas
Fairy Deer
Appearance: It resembles a a white deer or lamb with a long, beautiful tail that reaches the floor. It has a thicker coat than normal deer and small wings that allow it to fly a short distance off the ground.
Size: Size of a deer
Location found: Forests
Additional Info: Very rare
Crawntess
Appearance: A crustacean with blue spots all over its shell and two long antennae to help sense its surroundings
Size: About the size of a lobster
Location found: Oceans, brackish waters, and coasts
Additional Info: Their soft and tender meat under their shell make them expensive, which is why rich people love to eat them
Marmadune
Appearance: Marmadunes are fish that have two variations, those with red scales and those with yellow. Both have blue spots on their fins
Size: 3 and a half feet in length at most
Location found: Yellow-scaled marmadunes live in freshwater; red-scaled ones live in saltwater.
Additional Info: Red-scaled marmadunes are slighter bigger than yellow-scaled ones
Aufkar Squid
Appearance: Green bodies with blue-green hair-like fins on their head
Size: Reaches up to 2 and a half feet
Location found: Seas and oceans
Additional Info: Their hair-like fins make them faster swimmers than ordinary squids but they lose the ability to spit out black ink as a result.
Cyclops Crab
Appearance: They have one golden eye at the center of their face and blue spikes on their red-shelled body.
Size: Their leg span reaches to 2.5 feet long.
Location found: Ocean and sea floor
Additional Info: Despite their large eye, their sight is still limited so their spikes help protect them from predators. Their spikes easily soften when boiled.
Semi-Harmless Creatures: Danger Level 2
Unicorns
Ability: Can purify water and heal minor wounds
Appearance: A white horse with a shimmering mane and a singular, beautiful horn protruding from the head
Size: Similar size to an average horse.
Location found: Enchanted forests usually around fairy settlements.
Pegasus
Appearance: A Pegasus is an equestrian with wings and widely vary in hair color. Sometimes a pegasus will have a horn on their head, similar to a unicorn.
Size: Similar size to an average horse.
Location found: Pegasi are usually found in mountainous, lightly wooded areas or vast grassy fields.
Treant
Appearance: Their bodies are made up of the same properties as trees only they're more magically infused with the power of nature, making them stronger. Their appearances differ from the type of tree they're based on.
Size: Usually 20 feet tall, they continuously grow taller and bigger as they get older.
Location found: Lush forests or jungle.
Additional Info: Kind protector of forest. Only violent when threatened.
Burstag
Appearance: Stag-like creature.
Size: A bit bigger and more muscular than an adult stag
Location found: Forests and grasslands
Additional Info: Much more aggressive when faced in danger. Has tough meat.
Joverine Boar
Appearance: A large furry wild pig with sturdy tusks.
Size: 6 ft in length and 4 ft in height
Location found: Forests and grasslands though some also live in taigas
Additional Info: Likes charging into things
Striped River Shark
Appearance: Riversharks either have grey or brown stripes over their bodies.
Size: 3-4 feet long
Location found: Rivers, some live in lakes
Additional Info: They eat smaller fishes and love to bite with their very sharp teeth but it doesn't stop fishers from hunting them for their delicious meat.
Anjaman
Appearance: Primates covered in white fur with black markings. They are an intelligent species, smart enough to be able to use tools to break open coconuts or other fruits and nuts with tough casings and to have a unique communication system within their group. They live up in the trees most of their lives, only getting down to the ground to poop or search for nuts when food is scarce. When threatened, they are not afraid to go all out.
Size: When reaching adulthood, anjamans can be as big as a full-grown gorilla.
Location found: Jungles.
Danger Level 3: Potentially Harmful Creatures
Slime/Ooze
Appearance: Usually don't have any distinct shapes or sizes and generally appear as large masses of gelatinous fluid. They vary between mediums; some are intelligent and capable of assuming basic shapes with others being more than brainless piles of goo that dissolve whatever matter becomes enveloped by their bodies.
Size: Differs
Location found: Forests, dungeons, and caves
Bloodjack
Appearance: Large, mosquito-like insects. Uses their tongue-like sharp proboscis to stick inside the mouths or whatever hole of their target to suck their bloods and innards out until they're full. Generally comes in swarms.
Size: A third of an adult human
Location found: Forests, swamps, and bogs
Giant Spider
Appearance: Varies with the species and type of Spider and location ( Desert, Cave, Ice, and Forest).
Size: varies with species.
Location found: Caves, cold regions, Desert regions, and forest areas.
Trolls
Appearance: Varies with the species and type of troll (Cave, Ice, and Forest).
Size: 13 to 14 feet high.
Location found: Caves, cold regions, and forest areas.
Abyssal Chicken
Appearance: Abyssal chickens are small creatures. They have leather wings but are not capable of sustained flight. Their wings are folded above them, giving them a tear-shaped appearance. They have a large mouth filled with fangs and a long tongue. Abyssal chickens' primary form of locomotion was their two large legs, which ended in feet resembling those of a regular chicken. Each foot had three large claws. They spawn fully-grown in Spawning Trees. The trees hold fleshy sacks on their branches, and when mature they fall to the ground, breaking open. They are also commonly used as food for the demon race with a taste of that of a fatty chicken.
Location found: Avernus.
Beastmen
Appearance: Beastmen are feral demihumans that have to behave like the beasts they resemble. The appearance of beastmen varies, but their features are more animalistic and they are usually predators.
Size: Varies depending on the type of demi-human.
Location found: Wilderness of any region.
Wyverns
Appearance: Wyverns are a species of smaller dragons without front arm appendages and their wings are similar to that of a bat. Some have a barbed tail containing a deadly venom.
Size - Approximately the size of a horse.
Location found: Daka Island and any high altitude/mountainous region
Owlbears
Appearance: - Owlbears are monstrous beasts with the bodies of bears covered in thick fur and feathers. Their heads were like those of owls, but with a serrated beak.
Size - Slightly larger than a polar bear.
Location found: Forests everywhere
Giant Frogs
Appearance: - Giant Frogs are a twisted creature resembling a frog, but with a split lower jaw and mouth serrated with teeth and a very long tongue to grip and swallow its prey whole. They are immune to fire and electricity due to the slimy coating it excretes from the mouths/pores it has on its body.
Size - 7 feet while sitting straight up and also very wide.
Location found: Swamps (Everywhere)
Harpy
Appearance: A harpy combines the body, legs, and wings of a colorful vulture with the torso, and feathered head of a human female.
Size - Similar to that of your average humanoid races.
Location: Rocky or mountainous areas.
Additional Info: Its sweet song has lures adventurers to towards them where it will take them away to feed their young or kill them once found.
Danger Level 4 - Very Harmful Creatures
Thorrax
Appearance: Ferocious ambush predators. Razor sharp teeth and claws are made to tear flesh, and their big noses help to track the scent of prey better. They live in packs consisting of one male as leader and several females with his children; males can contest each other's packs but the one with bigger horns tend to be the winner.
Size: A bit bigger than a fully grown lion; males are bulkier while females are leaner.
Location found: Jungles, sometimes plains
Guard Drake
Appearance: Guard drakes resemble a blue dragon in appearance, except stunted and wingless, with a squat and muscular build. Drakes are incapable of reproducing. They used to be made from other colored dragon scales but they were far more unstable and too aggressive than using a blue dragon's scales.
Size: Thier size is around 18 feet long.
Location found: Desert areas and Daka Island.
Additional Info: Guard Drakes are a dark elf creation using the scales of a dragon and a secret technique only known to a few of the highest ranking magic users, the scales necessary to create guard drakes needed to be given freely by the original dragon, unlike their dragon counterparts they do not have a breath attack but do have an electrifying bite and claws.
Griffons
Appearance: - Avian carnivores with the muscular bodies of lions and the head, forelegs, and wings of eagles.
Size - Size of a workhorse
Location found: Mountainous or cliffy regions
Ogres
Appearance: - Ogres are hulking giants notorious for their quick tempers
Size - 20 feet tall
Location found: Cold regions, Coastal, Forests, Grasslands, Mountains, and Deserts.
Sphinxes
Appearance: - A sphinx has the body of a lion with a humanoid head and feathered wings. Their faces have a mix of humanoid and feline features. This creature kills and devours those that can't solve their riddles.
Size - Size varies from 5 to 15 feet
Location found: In old ruins and tombs, guarding powerful or valuable artifacts.
Goblins
Appearance: - Goblins are small, black-hearted humanoids with skin color going from a light blue/grey to green.
Size - 3-4 feet tall.
Location found: Despoiled dungeons and other dismal settings.
Corpse Flower
Appearance: Large mass of vines with corpse protruding the center.
Size - Large
Location found: Lush forests or jungles
Additional Info: Corpse flowers can grow from dead corpses in lush soil, tainted by dark magic or more commonly necromancy. They reach full size within a couple of weeks, at which point it will tear itself from the ground and begin hunting for more corpses. These corpses are grabbed and stuffed within its body to feed on. Whether they have corpses or not, a corpse flower is constantly surrounded by an aura of rot and decay. This stench is so potent that it only fades 8 days after the creature’s death. If the creature grew in soil that was tainted by necromancy the corpses inside the flower may reanimate due to the residual magic.
Roc
Appearance: A large, colorful bird that looks like an eagle. At first sight, a roc’s silhouette looks much like any other bird of prey. As it descends, however, its unearthly size becomes terrifyingly clear. In flight, a roc’s wingspan nearly rivals but is less than that of a phoenix.
Size - Slightly smaller than a phoenix
Location: Only in mountains in warmer areas.
Peryton
Appearance: The peryton combines the physical features of a stag with razer sharp teeth and a large bird.
Size - It's size is relateable to a work horse
Location: Usually around areas with dense populations where it can watch and hunt travellers who leave the walls or safety of thier cites.
Additional Info: Although this monstrous carnivore feeds on any creature, it prefers humanoids, especially elves, demi-humans, and other similar races . When it kills a humanoid, a peryton rips out its prey’s heart and takes it back to its nest to be devoured. The peryton is a bizarre creature that blends the body and wings of a bird of prey with the head of a stag. Its strangest feature is its shadow, which appears humanoid rather than reflecting the creature’s physical form.
Cockatrice
Appearance: The cockatrice appears as a hideous hybrid of lizard, bird, and bat.
Size - Similar to that of a Wyvern.
Location: Humid and warmer areas.
Additional Info: The cockatrice is infamous for its ability to temporarily turn flesh to stone. These carnivores have a diet that consists of creatures such as deer, goat, and smaller predators. They have a fierce and frenzied response to even a hint of danger. A cockatrice flies towards any threat, squawking and madly beating its wings as its head darts out to peck. The smallest scratch from a cockatrice’s beak may spell doom as the wound slowly turns to stone. The effects can either be waited out or cured using a medium red potion. Any damage to the stone wound will not be restored once made to flesh again.
Danger Level 5 - Extremely Harmful
Dragons
Appearance: - Varies with the species and type of dragon
Size - Huge
Location found: Mostly around Daka Island Mountains but can be found in Forests, Oceans, Deserts, Swamps, and various other regions.
Hydras
Appearance: - The hydra is a reptilian horror with a crocodilian body and multiple heads on long, serpentine necks. Although its heads can be severed, the hydra magically regrows them in short order.
Size - Huge
Location found: Cold regions, Coastal, Forests, Grasslands, Mountains and Deserts.
Phoenixes
Appearance: - Phoenixes resemble a large orange or red eagle. They usually have flames coming from their bodies on their wings and tails and sometimes their back.
Size - Huge
Location found: Volcanic areas of Daka Island.
Wendigos
Appearance: - A wendigo is a strange, savage fey spirit appearing as a humanoid with a skull resembling a deer's and bipedal bodies. More a force of nature than a true fey.
Size - 6 - 7 feet
Location found: They travel the snowy regions of Daka. Wendigos move towards the south during winter with the winter winds, striving to feed their constant hunger.
Thunderbirds
Appearance: - Thunderbirds resemble a large black or dark blue eagle. (Only about ten live in Avalia. Thought to be from another land.)
Size - Huge
Location found: Mountainous regions
Polar Owlbears
Appearance: - Polar Owlbears are monstrous beasts with the bodies of bears covered in thick fur and feathers. Their heads were like those of owls, but with a serrated beak. They have white fur and feathers
Size - A larger sub-species
Location found: Snow covered areas of Daka
Additional Info: This larger species is more violent and will actively hunt humanoids for enjoyment.