Introduced in Sigils of Blight (Book 2): Passion Flies Passion flies are moths and botanical arcanafauna, meaning they grow plants as their magic. When fire burns a part of the forest, passion flies regrow it. The especially love burning constructs. 1/2 #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary

#Critterary Day 5 The wiroch is one of the most important creatures on the Alezonian continent. These large, flightless birds are common pack animals & companions due to their docile nature & ease of domestication. They come in a variety of color ranging from grey or black to vibrant blues & reds.

#Critterary 5. Cryptids Anyone living in LA under a glamour could be considered a cryptid. But since we touch on a few, in Book 2, Esmee houses the Mahamba in her godly realm. His name is Nganga and he has tired of the rumors about him. He would tell you,"I do NOT lurk! I am minding my own business"

I'll be introducing my eldritches from Lights known as the Vakohr. They come in as many shapes and sizes as my imagination takes me - from still structures to human-esque. For this one, I thought it would be neat to combine a ladder and a centipede. Not sure if it's been done before? 🤔 #Critterary

Day 5 With prompts picking various Free Slot days, I picked Mondays for a tiny break! (I hate Mondays like a certain cat does 🐱...) Perfect chance to introduce a unique creation from your list, or anything else! #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary

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#Critterary Faereen has a few cryptids, as in weird creatures people tell stories about but which probably don't exist. But some Earth cryptids are simply beings that wandered through a gate from the faerie world to here. And MAYBE the Faerae ones are visiting from a 3rd world.

S Spirits coming from the Abyss are so remote of the physical plane that their Existence/Presence is perpetually chipped away Some go the hostile route of stealing, some find a more peaceful way taking some from willing living beings A subset are experimenting with artificial constructs as vessels

night and day 🌙☀️

#Criterary 4 (Spirit) lights? They're definitely real, it's just that no one knows whether they're creatures or not. They're supposed to be harmless, but no one is certain.

#Critterary Day 3: Tai was extremely unhappy to find their new human crewmate had smuggled a cat aboard. At least they've got a good idea of how to keep Frank out of the kitchen.

I spent too much time last night watching commercials from mid-90s YTV, & the channel used to feature ground-breaking indie CG shorts. This one, Beyond the Mind's Eye is my fav - fantasy-inspiring animation & a song that's never left my head in over 30 years 😌 #fantasy youtu.be/T4v2P0tO91c?...

#Critterary The Night Garden is real-world adjacent, so a lot of the cryptids that exist are actually because of the World of Shadows. My fave is Mothman, who is actually a Nosferatu vampire that liked to fly in partial transition to a bat.

I have mermaids and sirens for the lake and yeti's. #WritingCommunity.

I love Sasquatch and variations. Aside from a started/not finished erotic romance project and a pen name that I will neither confirm nor deny from the twenty-teens I have not written crytpids, but they certainly do exist in my universe. Hmm... this may be a good chance to write some. #Critterary

#Critterary Tragically there aren’t any cryptids in Val’hoon. The closest you could get would be Tethers, people who cast magic without the protection of a saint and thus take on major corruption from the Maelstrom. They’re usually reclusive and secretive as their magic is highly taboo.

#Critterary #Writing #WIP #Amwriting #Writersofbluesky Medieval Cryptids to be exact; namely the Woodwose (also known as the Green People in WIP) Wild People & Vegetation spirits who can regrow their limbs, reattach their heads, & sprout vines from their facial orifices. Dangerous but affable.

#Critterary #LicoriceAndMint #QueerWriters #lesfic #sapphic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts For Cryptids I give you all a minor god of Sehore, The Borrower. The Borrower is a minor goblin god who, as the name implies, borrows items from people. (1/?)

For the current novel, I wanted to have some mythical creatures, but I went for more of a sort of original critters.

Cryptids almost categorically mean a recognizably-Earth setting, so there are none in Dathl'lyr by definition. BUT They are all over the place in the drafts for my Mundus Occultus stories. I've got a jaguar-woman hiding in a big cat sanctuary in one draft; hikers vs. bigfoot in another...

#critterary WIP 1: Multiple cryptids are confirmed to exist including sasquatch and the Chupacabra. Some are still unconfirmed (Nessie). And some new ones are discovered. They’re all different monster species typically.

#Critterary Until the events of TNS, that would be the dragons. When the Dragon Wars ended, the dragons vanished, and Eldanans believed they went completely extinct. In actuality, dragons can shapeshift, so they just went into hiding. But now and then, you'll have somebody stupid. (1/2)

I have three feline critters who have showed up in drafts so far! The first are monstrous animals (for lack of a better phrase): six-legged hunting cats of the Holy Lands and Lighting Plains, inspired by the pulp fantasy art inspired by the creatures from Burroughs' Mars stories. #Dathl'lyr 1/🧵

So, I have a plan for book 4. You see cryptids would just be called arcanafauna in this setting, but I do have legends and legendary arcanafauna. I intend to turn Thalia (MC) into a myth in the 4th book people claim to see, but no one can verify 'til the end. #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary

#Critterary Day 4 There's not much cryptid lore in Triple Strike, but given that it's a galactic-scale far future, surely there are lots of real critters that are cryptids in that sightings are rare/unconfirmed. At the risk of turning this fun prompt into an exploration of colonialism --

#Critterary #HelpDesk Heck, yes!! We've got Twinkle the Bat, Keewakw, the Backup Furnace, the Lake Force, Pokey the Pokedosaurus, and a whole flight of origami dragons! Oh, and we mustn't forget the spider plant which is... getting ideas.

A fun example of a feline in my setting would be sphinx and lesser sphinx. They are an intelligent species of telepathic cats with some vaguely ape like features. Greater sphinx are huge orangutan faced tigers with large swan like wings. Lesser sphinx are cheetah sized and have no wings

#Critterary I don't have any in my stories so far. One day I'd like to do one about a Taniwha (pronounced tonne-e-far).

I've drawn and written a bestiary containing about 200+ Critters, Cryptids & other obscure topics on my website~ samkalensky.com/collections/... (also check out my exhaustive bestiary on yokai!👺)

#Critterary Welp, since there are a lot of folklore-inspired creatures in my Hell, such as kelpies and selkies that may come up later, Ill go with a modern cryptid that makes a cameo… The Jersey Devil appears at one point in the story, but Ill let my reader spot him on their own as an easter egg 🥰 🧵

Most beings that mortals label as myths or legends are from the Ani'cora,realm of the fairy folk. "Fairy" is a broad term for lots of things that live in the world soul. There are little pixies like you would expect but also some otherworldly horrors they have become boogymen the world over.

#Critterary 4 #TheDragonblood: The ancient people of Nemoros had tales of the Ēlluamvis, a giant serpent. The tales about it share a common history with the Hittite tales of Illuyanka. The name was then applied to Missadeiuos' dragon form. (1/2)

#Critterary In "Hell Is Work" Levi is mistaken for a "Nessie" like creature in Lake Michigan, but outside of demons there's not much. In "Hail Santa" there's a bit from Inuit or Icelandic lore. Redcaps. Nisse. Mahaha. An Amarok. The Yule Cat. Gryla and her Yule Lads. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Ok buckle up this is weird. Ok so Othera does have vampires, but they are a specific type of non human creature that can make vampire thralls. Vampires are a species that are able to bite humanoids and infect them with that is basically a parasite that warps their anatomy and their mind

Hmm many creatures in The Forest’s Chosen resemble cryptids. Esp those in the southern region of the place. Other than that probably the closest thing would be my Alpha Magic World project. (Slight misnomer since there are two worlds in the project). The human world is full of cryptid legends…

you can say hebi is based of the titanoboa but that's kind of a stretch i do want to implement mothman in my work one day tho

As a fantasy writer I use critters in all kinds of way, both as antagonists as well as companions. As a world builder I like to make my creatures all fit into the world I am making and able to interact with each other. I like making magical and non magical animals #critterary

off topic but irl i have a lot of cats for example my daughter megatron but in lorem there's mina the ametsu foundation secretary well she's not exactly a normal cat but a bakeneko yo kai and fun fact she's based on my cat megatron like a lot of beast folks she can turn into a human and an animal

My story has a brief encounter with some will-o'-the-wisps in the woods at night. In this instance, they're a nuisance that try to lead my characters astray, but they can also be benevolent. #Critterary

one of the main villains is one astra is a sadistic vampire with multiple personalities not a very pleasing combo rubi can vouch for that she loves being a vampire and wouldn't want it any other way she's a risk taker one of her favorite activities is going outside the sun just for the thrill

lorem is full weird fucks like titans, celestials, dragons and yokai that's just the tip of the ice berg if you name it we have it here in lorem they're a way to make the world unique from earth while also make em feel alive

I'd love to incorporate more cryptids in my work. The closest I have are the shifters in Coyote Hollow, but I do have an idea for a WIP that might end up being werewolf bikers. Idk yet. But doing something with the Fresno Nightcrawlers could be fun. #Critterary

Squild are and aren't a kind of Marisian cryptid. They DO exist, but they're only seen when fishermen cross into their (protected) feeding grounds. At which point, there usually aren't many survivors once the pod finishes. #Critterary #MindWalkers #YA

Not a criptid but there‘s a lake monster in my dual timeline fantasy novelette, Curse to the Kingdom😉The creature resides in Goddess’s Lake🐉 In one timeline, we learn its origins; in the present timeline, the FMC comes face-to-face with it🔥 #Critterary #writesky #fantasyLit #snippet describing it:

#Critterary My world doesn’t have many folklore related creature, due to the fact that most kingdoms don’t believe in anything spiritual or religious etc but in Windfor, they have a creature called a Bellwraith, which is a shadowy figure with a trail of ever ringing bells. 1/

#Critterary 4. In Outworld, there's the kharskos [KAR-iss-kos], a large flying animal with leathery wings with a crown of hair around its face—the exact shape of the face varies from story to story, some claiming it has a flat face while others describe it with a beak or elongated nose. (1/3)

#Critterary 4: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the Hrothians believe that Lake Whisper is inhabited by a massive water serpent of some kind, although the veracity of this claim is never clear and the Vizrani and Avendrals tend to think the Hrothians are overly...

#Critterary Gonna go with a world-specific answer here. In the PD, it's generally accepted that most species can interbreed. There's one big exception: the Odonata. They are HUGE space-faring dragonfly people. Too big to produce a child with a normal-sized person, surely! And then Calinthe exists

Day 4 #critterary The folklore in my world relates to mythical animals like the Moonhound, a wolf that lives in the mountains and appears during full moons. In my Waterdeep Parks and Recreation materials, I had Moth Man in charge of the Waterdeep Free Meals program and distribution.

Cryptids are kind of a special interest of mine, and I think you can tell, considering that both of my published works (Luminous Tapestry and The Cryptic Parade) so far have been about them. Heck, even First Light has the beastgods... #Writing #WritingPrompts #Critterary