Hey guys and gals. I was wondering how everybody was handling animals in their games. I have a Hound player and we came up with a kind of giant salamander/feline hybrid that he called a Depth Stalker for his pet, but it was a little challenging to create a beast that fit the world.
I was wondering what kinds of creatures y’all had come up with in your games. I’m interested in Hound pets, but any kind of fauna would be fantastic.
Is there absolutely no animal life outside of the cities, do you play that ghosts only desire human life force so animals are relatively safe, or have your animals adapted to life in the Deathlands and dealing with hungry ghosts? I’d love to see what animal life populates your worlds.
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This is my Hound’s hunting pet, a hyena-bat from the Dagger Isles
We have death hunter raptors; huge birds of prey that the silver nails use Mongolian falconry style to hunt ghosts.
Goats are endemic amongst the well-to-do, they seem immune to possession.
Jacob Spafford, that looks awesome. Does it have limited glide capabilities, or are they kinda vestigial wings that don’t do much? Do you have a name for the species?
Nathan Roberts I’m not familiar with the difference between Mongolian falconry and, say, European falconry. I do have a Hound NPC who has an Ashfeather as a pet, which I’ve made a kind of four-winged eagle with ash-grey feathers that also feeds on ghosts, but I haven’t really fleshed it out beyond that. How is Mongolian falconry distinct from the falconry used by European nobility? Is it a more shamanistic practice? I haven’t found much on Mongolian falconry with a quick search.
Me too! There is no telling what creatures evolved in the Deathlands, came from Tycheros, or are simply descended from.. stranger times in history.
One came up with an owl creature infused with spirits of his dead family. Another a dog polluted by shadow essence. I came up with an albino lizard whose scales consume light (making it shadowy) when exposed to moonlight.
Mark Cleveland Massengale When you’re talking about the owl as being infused with the spirits of his dead family are you talking about a sentient owl species with a dead family and an ancestral connection or are you referring to a Hound whose owl pet is kind of communally possessed by the spirits of the Hound’s dead family? Either way I find the idea fantastic.
No name for the species, we’ve just been calling him “Echo the hyena ghost bat.” Haven’t determined yet fictionally the extent of his flight capabilities
Eric Anthony it was definitely the second one, but possibly the first as well. It was the familiar gleam in it’s eyes, protective nature, and the uncanny connection it had which communicated meaning to the Hound, but we never actually defined it (some things are better left to mystery I suppose!)