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The Felayan fauna is composed of many species from many worlds which makes it very varied and unpredictable. See also carnivorous plants and plant life. Because the page is reaching the maximum size, here is the first part of the fauna : Fauna and second : Fauna2

Note about the threat ranking:

It's based on the threat that the creature represents for a normal human. It's not necessarily linked to the strength of the creature. For example the dryad Cypress would rank very low because she is very friendly to humans, yet she is a powerful being.

Rank:

• Minimal: A totally harmless being such as a mouse or a rabbit.
• Very Low: Mostly herbivores but who can still strike back if attacked.
• Low: Various animals such as felines.
• Moderate: A moderately dangerous Felaryan creature can still be very dangerous in another world. For example a great white shark would rank between Low and Moderate here...
• Medium: A predatory, dangerous and often man-eating creature.
• High: A great predator. Crisis is in this category.
• Very High: A top predator. This creature could take on a small army.
• Critical: In Felaryan scales, very few creatures reach this rank.
• Extreme: A guardian or a mythical creature. Only a god can hope to survive a confrontation with one of these.

In evernight forest

Abyssal Slug

Size: 30-40'
Threat: Medium

These creatures usually live in very dark places such as caverns. They glow lightly and wear a beautiful pattern of vividly colored lights on them. However when you see these lights it's probably already too late. Abyssal slugs can locate their prey far away with a sort of natural sonar. When the slug knows the exact location of its prey and is in range, it powerfully vacuums it in to it's large mouth. The range of capture can reach the 300 feet for the greater specimens.

Shadow Fish

Size: 1-40'
Threat: Very Low to Medium

The size of shadow fishes varies a lot and this name comprises many sub species. Shadow fishes have the unique ability to breath shadow. They can live both in air or water, as long as the place is dark. Exposing them to light would suffocate them, much like a fish out of water. They float in the air and can move quickly if needed. Because they have no teeth, shadow fish swallow whole anything that is the right size. Greater specimens can pose a serious threat to adventurers.

Glophorbia

Size:
Threat: Under Construction

Flash Medusa

Size: 20-30'
Threat: Moderate

In such a dark place as evernight forest, light can become a weapon. These jellyfish-like creature use a powerful flash of light to dazzle and blind their prey... or suffocate it in the case of shadow fishes. Then they move rapidly in range to swallow their meal.

Lightseeker

Size: 15 inches
Threat: Minimal

A small and extremely fast bird. Little is known about them because once you see trace of a lightseeker, it's already away. They possess a strange glowing globe on their belly that emits a blinding light when the bird fly and let a long tail of light behind them, a bit like a comet.

In the eternal darkness of Evernight forest, this is one of the rare source of light you will ever see. For some reasons, lightseekers seem to always flight on a very right trajectory and turn with sharp angles, creating long broken lines of light that subsist several seconds before vanishing in the darkness

Night Anemone

Size: 50'
Threat: Medium

A dangerous creature lurking in dark places such as caverns or evernight forest. They feed on anything that they catch with their long and agile tentacles and they can swallow very large preys. While their most common preys are shadow fishes, an human would also fits well in such a large stomach. What makes night anemones really dangerous is their tentacles. They are strong, agile, but most of all, they are semi-immaterial, can stretch to frighteningly long distance and can't be harmed in any normal way.

Others

Umbra

Size: Varies
Threat: Medium

Long thought extinct in the Felarya jungle, they are still only relatively few in number ( About several dozen are suspected to exist currently), but even one umbra is enough to decimate an entire village if the thought ever crossed its simple mind.

Because of their unique physiology, their form is never completely fixed. Continually phasing in and out of the dimensions of Felarya has had the effect of essentially making these beasts shape shifters of sort. In their true form, you could describe them as a sort of shadowy fog. Although unable to change their colors, umbras are able to briefly imitate any prey they have recently absorbed. However, due to their extremely rapid digestive system, the imitation often appears rotten and degenerated. Thus the most common hunting tactic of an umbra is to conceal itself in the roots of a tree, or on the ceiling of a cave, and wait for a living creature to approach before surrounding and enveloping it.

Umbras can stretch to remarkably long lengths, and because of their weightlessness they are able to travel with blinding speed through the air like a cloud. Strangely, their semi-corporeal form is as equally a drawback as it is an advantage, as a strong wind will prove dangerous for them. Moreover, they have only a very small tolerance for injury. Though able to withstand blows from anything human sized and below, larger creatures will often give the umbra cause to flee. That said, if an umbra does find suitable prey, they will pursue them relentlessly, feeling an unnatural instinct to remove all evidence of their existence by destroying any who have seen them. Those who have claimed to have seen an umbra are usually cast out from society due to the bad luck that the more superstitious people will see as surrounding them.

Because the page is reaching the maximum size, here is the first part of the fauna : Fauna, and second: Fauna2

• Credits to Militant prey, Rythmear, Gregole, Zoekin, Pendragon, Moonlight pendent, Servomoore and Nksrocks for various ideas for the fauna.