Creatures

There are many creatures throughout Yliakum, in here you will find information on both ferocious (and not so ferocious) creatures as well as rogues and other vile characters.

Wild Animals

Rarely are wild animals found in large cities except for rats which come and infest the sewers and cellars. These animals are often the best for people seeking to train since they range from simple creatures such as rats to extremely powerful monsters such as ulbernauts. Because of this, some creatures have been brought to the Hydlaa Arena so that various people can fight them without having to look for them.

Arangma

Forest Arangma

The easiest to find, this arangma subspecies is also the easiest to defeat.

Appearance: Green, very green, to blend in with its suroundings.
Strength: Due to their brittle forms, Forest Arangmas are fairly easy to defeat.
Natural Habitat: Wooded Areas and Forests.

Frost Arangma

Appearance: The carapace is purple with large green spots, the legs are blue.
Strength: Due to their brittle forms, Frost Arangmas are fairly easy to defeat. Mages beware, however. Due to it's predilection for the cold, attempting to freeze this creature to death is unlikely to work.
Natural Habitat: Cold and Dark places.

Weaver Arangma

Spending most of its time skulking around, a weaver arangma may often crawl away rather than seeking a fight with a potential aggressor.

Appearance: Purple body, with turquoise-blue legs and a vivid yellow and red marking on the carapace.
Strength: Due to their brittle exo-skeletal structure, weaver arangmas are fairly easy to defeat. However their shell is tougher than a forest arangma's.
Natural Habitat: Grimy areas such as the Hydlaa Sewer.

Vesper Arangma

This subspecies of arangma can be found in the darkest, deepest shadows.

Appearance: Almost completely purple, save for some green and blue spots on the carapace.
Strength: Due to their brittle exo-skeletal structure, vesper arangmas are fairly easy to defeat. However, it should be noted that it possess some magical resistance.
Natural Habitat: Deep shadows such as those found at the bottom of the Hydlaa Sewer.

Sand Arangma

This subspecies of arangma can be found in sandy places, such as deserts.

Appearance: Almost completely black, with some yellow details on their abdomen.
Strength: Sand Arangmas have a strong exo-esqueletal armor, while they tend to be a bit resistant to spells. The explorer must be wary about those bugs, as Sand Arangmas are one of the stronger arangmas in Yliakum.
Natural Habitat: Sand dunes like the ones outside Eagle Bronze Doors.

Biorlitrosan

A semi-intelligent, quadrupedal mammal. It uses limited native speech. It is herbivorous, and thusly eats grass and grains. It can manipulate tools using tusks and a thick, forked, prehensile tongue.

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	Natural Habitat: Biorlitrosans live in burrows or simple huts on all six levels, but forage in grasslands.

Barn Bouncetail

Barn Bouncetails are insects, so named because it jumps on its hind legs while using its tail for control. Although not rare, they are not very common either. Barn Bouncetails originally come from The Barn, the second level, and just like many other insects, they eat plants. However, they seem to like certain kinds of rare flowers in particular, which makes them very much disliked in the gardeners' community. Luckily for gardeners, Barn Bouncetails flee from the odour of consumer pheromones (consumers being one of their natural enemies).

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	Strength: Fairly stupid and not a serious threat to the experienced.
	Natural Habitat: They are often found around plants and flowers.

Carkarass

Carkarasses are one of the only type of flying creatures, along with Pterosaurs and Megarases. They are seldom seen in the world of the living, but many people coming back from the Death Realm claim to have seen some flying around. Not much is known about them; scientists know only that they live in the Death Realm and that they are reptiles capable of hovering, gliding and low flight. Coming across one is seen as a bad omen.

Appearance: A feathered, flying creature with two tails. Their height can very from 1m to 2m.
Strength: Not a hindrance to any experienced adventurer, but amateurs should beware.
Natural Habitat: Wilderness area.

Poison Carkarass

Appearance: A Poison Carkarass resembles the normal Carkarass. Most people cannot distinguish one from the other.
Strength: Poison Carkarasses are far stronger then normal Carkarasses, so beware when engaging them in combat.
Natural Habitat: Grimy areas such as the Hydlaa Sewer.

Fire Carkarass

Appearance: Fire Carkarasses are identical in most respects to other Carkarasses, but are easily distinguished by their fiery colour.
Strength: Fire Carkarasses are as strong as Poison Carkarasses.
Natural Habitat: The Fire Carkarass lives in the Death Realm.

Clacker

Clackers are very closely related to crabs, having a hard exoskeleton, which gives them protection and makes them very robust. Their two front limbs are tipped with razor-sharp blades, which can be used to inflict serious damage on anyone who comes within range, but they are generally harmless if you keep your distance. They are named for the sound they produce with their legs. Clacker legs have been at times fashioned into crude tools, and their meat is considered edible, though an 'acquired taste'. They are one of the few omnivorous insects.

Appearance: An insect-like creature resembling an over-sized hermit crab.
Strength: Fairly stupid and not a serious threat to the experienced.
Natural Habitat: The arena has a fairly large population of these, but mainy can be found in the sewers and dungeons throughout Yliakum. Clackers are sometimes hunted for their meat, which is used to prepare many flavourful dishes.

Jade Clacker

Appearance: Physically, they look just like Clackers, save for their green colouring.
Strength: Fairly stupid and but a more serious threat then the common clacker.
Natural Habitat: Jade clackers are the rarest of clackers. It is not well known where they live.

Thunder Clacker

Unlike common Clackers, Thunderclackers are a brilliant, deep green shade. Because of their coloring, they often blend in with grass and flora, and are rarely seen.

Appearance: Physically, they look just like Clackers, save for their their royal blue and silvery grey colouring.
Strength: Basically, they are slightly stronger than ordinary Clackers. They can be very dangerous when they clack their thundering sound.
Natural Habitat: Thunderclackers are found mostly in the wilds, and are quite uncommon near towns.

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Consumer

Consumers are rarely seen and little is known of them. Only in recent years have consumers been spotted in any numbers, and scientists speculate that they arrived via the great pits into which the dead are thrown. They will eat anything that fits into their large, round mouth, and some people claim that consumers have the ability to "upgrade" themselves from what they eat. For example, if they eat intelligent creatures, they will themselves become more intelligent.

Appearance: A being with a large, slater-like body and a massive maw of needle-like teeth. They are about 5 meters long. It has four front claws, and a series of small legs.
Strength: Consumers are aptly named as they have a constant, ravaging hunger and can eat and digest almost any known substance. It is rumoured that the only things consumers cannot digest are certain types of magical weapons and armour, although this information has never been confirmed. Although Consumers have no eyes, they possess the uncanny ability to find prey using some strange sensory organs unknown to the peoples of Yliakum.
Natural Habitat: Consumers are rare, but can be found in the wilds between Hydlaa and the Bronze Doors. Some have been spotted near the road between Hydlaa and Ojaveda as well. As they are light-sensitive, they often prefer spots where they can hide in shade and shadow.

Imago Consumer

Appearance: A being with a large, green slater-like body and a massive maw of needle-like teeth. It has four front claws, and a series of small legs.	File:ImagoConsumer.png
Strength: Unknown.
Natural Habitat: Unknown.

Neoten Consumer

Appearance: A being with a large, fire-red slater-like body and a massive maw of needle-like teeth. It has four front claws, and a series of small legs.
Strength: Unknown.
Natural Habitat: Unknown.

Derghir

Like the Kran, they are based out of silicon as opposed to carbon. Also like the Kran, their diet consists of sand and crystals. Derghirs are small creatures with a relatively high intelligence. They are able to construct buildings from what looks like stone and crystal, they also appear to have a social order of some kind. The Derghir also have their own complex language. Some people claim to have learned this language, stating that they can communicate with the Derghir. Other people say that the Derghir are a ravaging threat to the civilizations of Yliakum.

Appearance: A short, humanoid creature with a thick rock-like exoskeleton. They have very large, powerful claws and the ability to withstand the Crystal's radiation better than any other race. They are usually coloured brown and/or grey.
Strength: Their vulnerability has not been documented to this date, but it has been estimated that these creatures are hard to kill with conventional weapons due to their rocky exterior. Blunt weapons such as clubs and maces are thought to be more effective.
Natural Habitat: They have been observed through observatory telescopes as living on the Azure Sun itself. Recently however, small villages of derghir have been discovered in remote places on the Dome level.

Gawerts

The only insectoid semi-intelligent specie.Live in tree colonies, and are capable of simple language.

Appearance: Similar to dwarves in size except for a larger abdomen, four thin arms and four wings.Usually green in colour.	File:Nopic.png
Strength: Scavenger.
Natural Habitat: Native to the Barn but will fly to the Dome if food is scarce.

Gobbles

Gobbles are unpleasant creatures living in Hydlaa's sewers and probably other dark places. They are semi-intelligent and display a certain amount of cunning. It is said among scientists that they can even speak to each other. Their long limbs allow them to run quickly, either to fight or flee.

Appearance: A short, humanoid creature with mottled skin and a nasty disposition, these beings can be dangerous to the young and inexperienced. Though short, they have a muscled physique, and both their hands and feet have opposable thumbs to aid with climbing. Although they have limited intelligence, it is believed that one might communicate with them if one speaks their native tongue.
Strength: They are strong enough to tear chunks of flesh and meat from their victims, often in an eating frenzy that earned them their name.
Natural Habitat: Individually, they aren't that threatening to large prey and seasoned warriors, so they tend to hide out in unexpected locations, sometimes even improvising ambushes for unexpected passerby's.

Eagle Gobbles

Eagle Gobbles, members of the 'Eagle' Clan of Gobbles, are identical in build to the common gobble, but adorn themselves with tattoos and, sometimes, jewellery. This body decoration is indicative of their fairly high degree of intelligence.

Appearance: Similar to the common gobble, Eagle Gobbles can be distinguished by their distinctive red tattoos on their blue skin and tendency to wear jewelery.
Strength: They are strong enough to tear chunks of flesh and meat from their victims, often in an eating frenzy that earned them their name.
Natural Habitat: Eagle Gobbles are found in the wild areas of Yliakum.

Serpent Gobbles

Serpent Gobbles are members of the 'Serpent' Clan of Gobbles. It is believed that their custom of wearing more jewellery than other Gobbles is to signify their higher degree of intelligence.

Appearance: They are identical in physiognomy to the common Gobble, but with striking orange skin, the occasional tattoo and an abundance of jewelery.
Strength: They are strong enough to tear chunks of flesh and meat from their victims, often in an eating frenzy that earned them their name.
Natural Habitat: Serpent Gobbles can be found in all wild areas.

Gorweal

A carnivorous species with both animal and plant characteristics. Starts as a seed-like egg and adapts to local flora, taking its shape. Protects its 'camouflage' and can cultivate it. Its sense of smell and ability to detect vibration make stealth impossible, even if it can be picked out of the foliage.

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Grendol

Most Grendol are of a malignant nature, although there are rumours about the existence of an intelligent, neutral being resembling a Grendol existing somewhere in one of the nether realms.

Appearance: A foul beast that reeks of death
Strength: Although it is not very intelligent, it has very heavy limbs which can easily inflict serious damage to most unskilled fighters.
Natural Habitat: This abomination dwells in dungeons and dark places, preying upon the unwary.

Toxic Grendol

While most people go to the nether regions to find a smarter version of the Grendol, they would be surprised to learn it is right in their own backyard. Although not as smart as rumored, the Toxic Grendol is in fact a smarter version of the Grendol.

Appearance: A giant creature with veins of lava and toxic liquids.
Strength: The Toxic Grendol appears to be an advanced apprentice in magic use, unlike its cousin, while also appearing to be strong,tough and agile with advanced fighting abilities.
Natural Habitat: Like its cousin, the Toxic Grendol dwells in dungeons and dark damp places.

Rat

The most common vile creature in Yliakum, rats have become a pest in the large towns. They proliferate where food is freely available, and always seem able to find some way to get it. They will eat the rotting corpses in sewers as well as the fresh meat in someone's cupboard. They have been known to attack people if they got too close, however they are generally so inoffensive that kids often tease them just for fun.

Appearance: Rats are quite large and covered with brownish fur. They have one eye and a skinny tail. They use their sharp teeth to attack. While a Rat's bite can be quite painful, it does not inflict too much damage.
Strength: Because they are quite easy to defeat, fighting them is a good way for the weaker adventurer to gain experience.
Natural Habitat: Rats can be found in the sewers of Hydlaa or in the warehouse district of Ojaveda.

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Wrathrat

Wrathrats are very much like common rats in shape, however, their appearance is dramatically different. Only half of the head has flesh, the rest is skeleton; their bodies are skinned, bare muscles are open to the air and held together in places with coarse stitchings. It is unsure whether they feed or not since they do not seem to be alive in the natural sense. Some speculate that a sorcerer cast a spell upon some rats, dooming them never to rest in peace.

Appearance: Wrathrats have the same physical shape as common rats, but their fur is of a bloody red and their skin adheres to their skeleton by only a few stitches here and there.
Strength: Wrathrats are far more powerful than common rats; their big claws can inflict serious damage to the careless or unskilled fighter.
Natural Habitat: Unlike common rats, wrathrats live in the Death Realm and have never been seen in Yliakum.

Riverling

A reptilian specie that thrives in damp caves. About 2m tall when upright, but almost always hunched to fit under low ceilings. Yellow-gray and has a long spiked tail. Eats fish but will attack to protect habitat. Uses bones from large animals or sentients as weapons, but otherwise unintelligent.

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Strength: Eats fish but will attack to protect habitat. Uses bones from large animals or sentients as weapons, but otherwise unintelligent.
Natural Habitat: Thrives in damp caves.

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Tefusang

A bizarre reptile with some mammalian features, possibly twisted by magic early in its development. Occupy underground areas and valleys on the top three levels. Carnivorous, and prefer rivnaks and their riders. Hides are used in clothing and armour. Teeth and claws used for weapons.

Appearance: A large nasty beast with leathery skin, horned appendages and two large tentacles hanging from the torso.
Strength: The potential strength of this breed varies widely, ranging from average to almost supernatural. Because it is hard to judge the level of threat from just the appearance, the wise adventurer should be wary when approaching one of these creatures. Tefusang's leathery skin and teeth are valued for both armor and alchemical formulas and can fetch a modest price from many merchants.
Natural Habitat: Tefusangs are seen throughout Yliakum. Although fairly common, they tend to avoid highly populated places, preferring areas which are rarely accessed. There is also a colony which has been brought to the arena for anyone who would like to match his or her skill against one.

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Marfusang

Not much is known about the Marfusang.

Appearance: Brighter in color than the Tefusang, but every bit as terrifying.
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Tloke

A large light-green insect. Similar to clackers in size but docile and herbivorous, eating mostly grass. Some nobles use tlokes for adornment and low maintenance grazing of their lawns. Their saddleback shape is cause for breeding tlokes for size, in the hopes they can grow large enough to ride. Many people consider the tloke a 'lucky animal' and will not kill it despite its parts' use in alchemy.

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Tloke Drone

Possessing extraordinary strength for its size, the Drones perform the menial tasks in the hive.

Appearance: Greenish wings, an orange thorax and black legs.
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Tloke Warrior

Working as one, the Warriors protect their queen against potential hostiles.

Appearance: Orange wings and thorax, black legs.
Strength: A fair bit stronger then drone's, there stinger is strong and sharp. They should not be a problem for an experienced fighter, but novice's should keep clear.
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Tloke Queen

The leader of the hive, the Queen mainly sits around being served upon hand and foot. She also possess some magical resistance.

Appearance: Easily distinguished from the other Tloke in the hive by its white wings, thorax and legs.
Strength: The queens are one of the toughest breeds of Tloke, but should be no match for a well versed warrior.
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Trepor

Quadrupedal arthropod found in caves and underground mines, but have recently established surface colonies on the Dome. Carnivorous, and will hunt sentients. Uses wiggly feelers on back to help navigate in darkness. Oviparous. Wiggly feelers and egg sacs are used in magic. One can fetch a very nice fee for the hearts of these monsters.

Appearance: An intelligent and hostile creature resembling a spider, but with a human face. A fully-grown trepor is about 1.5m high, 1m wide and 1m long. They have four feelers on their raised backs; these feelers help them to move around swiftly in the darkness. Most of their body is covered with a very hard layer of toughened scales. They appear to be hermaphroditic.
Strength: It is rumoured that some are able to use magic. Trepors are difficult, but not impossible to slay. They can be quite dangerous in small packs and lethal if their colony is threatened. They are able to attack in complete darkness because of their good vision and feelers. A trepor attacks by biting and clawing.
Natural Habitat: They inhabit plains, forests and caves. Trepors dwell in the wilds for the most part, although a colony was established in the Hydlaa Arena for training purposes.

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Ulbernauts

Ulbernauts are vicious and extremely powerful beasts, one of the largest mammals in Yliakum, appearing exclusively on the Dome. Carnivorous and will actively attack sentients. Only the bravest or most foolhardy of adventurers will attempt to kill ulbernauts. Their parts are valued for many things; their hides and claws are highly valuable to 'fur and animal parts' traders, while their hearts are prized by magicians and priests as a component of ritual magic.

Appearance: Ulbernauts stand over four meters tall, have two massively clawed arms, a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth and a thick coat of shaggy, nearly impenetrable fur.
Strength: One of the deadliest creatures in all of Yliakum. They can strike with lightning speed at close range, but they are slow moving. Even the most experienced adventurer treads lightly in close proximity to one of these beasts.
Natural Habitat: Rarely encountered, they tend to nest in places far from civilization.

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Velnishi

A carnivorous reptile that inhabits the deeper recesses of the Jade Caves of the Dome. It tends to attack using a barbed tail which exudes a paralytic substance, then feeding on the paralyzed animal. Will eat adventurers, miners, krataks and rats. Height varies widely, and its venom is sought after in alchemy and medicine.

Appearance: Height varies widely.
Strength: It tends to attack using a barbed tail which exudes a paralytic substance, then feeding on the paralyzed animal. Will eat adventurers, miners and rats.
Natural Habitat: Inhabits the deeper recesses of the caves of the Dome.

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Domesticated Animals

Domesticated animals are creatures which have been adapted to work or to just provide company. Of the latter, the most common species are the Groffel and the Yulbar. However, there are some people who might want a clacker for a pet. Animals like the Pterosaur, the Goujah and the Megaras aren't often kept as pets, but as working beasts as they are quite practical.

Goujah

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Groffel

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Kikiri

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Megaras

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Pterosaur

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Rivnak

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Yulbar

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Malicious Characters

People seeking a fight can not only attack various creatures, they can also try to kill rogues, mercenaries and other vile characters. Some of this lot are extremely powerful and hard to vanquish, whereas others are weak enough to be defeated with little or no skill.

Dark Rogue

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Dlayo Gladiator

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Dlayo Gladiator

Expert Gladiator

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Expert Gladiator

Gladiators

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Mercenaries

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Onyx Dagger

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Rogues

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Cutthroat

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In Character References

In game, a couple of books refer to Yliakum creatures. They can be found in the famous Hydlaan library owned by the Ylian Jayose: Clacker Ecology Communicating with Creatures Flying Animals Monsters: Consumers Monsters: Gobbles Monsters: Trepor Monsters: Ulbernaut Selected Beasts of Yliakum Vol. 1: A-K Selected Beasts of Yliakum Vol. 2: L-Y The Derghir Menace