Wild Animals#

Animals of Sedia

The ordinary animals of Urd, by family. None of them is magical and most would rather you went away. Hunters skin them, cooks stew them, and an animal husband can tame nearly any of them.

In a fight a creature’s AC is its Defense, and it adds a fifth of its level to hit. Running a Fight has the rest.

Reading the tables#

Each table gives an animal’s size, rank and level, its health, armor class and the die it bites for, how many come in a group, the DC to tame it and what a tamed one is worth in vern. Lives in shows the provinces whose ground suits it. What each one is sits under its name.

The animals#

By family, the smallest and weakest first.

Vermin#

Rats, beetles, bats and the other small things that turn up everywhere, in cellars and caves as much as in the wild. Every vermin is weak and level 2, and each one met rolls a size and a kind: a giant marsh slug is a slug of the marsh, two levels tougher than an ordinary one. The roller on the Creatures page rolls both.

Vermin	Sizes	Kinds	Lives in
AntColonial insects operating with hive-mind efficiency. Individually weak but devastating in swarms, some species deliver painful stings.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	fire, weaver, carpenter, black garden, atta, dorylus, bullet, myrmecia, lasius, redwood, formica, little black, pheidole, messor barbarus, electric, dinoponera, myrmicinae, yellow meadow, tapinoma sessile, yellow, meat
BatNocturnal flying mammals navigating by echolocation. From fruit-eaters to blood-drinkers, they emerge at dusk in swirling clouds.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	pygmy fruit, borneo fruit, spotted-winged fruit, black-capped fruit, short-nosed fruit, horsfield’s fruit, minute fruit, greater short-nosed fruit, dyak fruit, tailless fruit, white-collared fruit, musky fruit, swift fruit, straw-colored fruit, naked-backed fruit, harpy fruit, nectar, blossom, tube-nosed fruit, golden-capped fruit, monkey-faced, black flying fox, dusky flying fox, gray flying fox, big-eared flying fox, dwarf flying fox, yap flying fox, epauletted fruit, greater dawn, lesser dawn, rousette, vesper, mouse-eared, myotis, cave, wooly, collared pipistrelle, black gilded pipistrelle, big-eared, wattled, sind, desert red, greater red, broad-headed pipistrelle, cinnamon red, zulu serotine, pied, lesser long-eared, yellow, harlequin, greenish yellow, little forest, inland forest, bent-wing, bumblebee, hairless, bonneted, free-tailed, sac-winged, sheath-tailed, pouched, vampire, horseshoe, trident, roundleaf, ghost-faced, wrinkle-faced, visored
BeeBuzzing pollinators with barbed stingers. Generally docile unless their hive is threatened, then they attack relentlessly.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	bumble, honey, carpenter, digger, mining, leafcutting, mason, sweat, plasterer, yellow faced
BeetleArmored insects with hardened wing covers. Incredibly diverse, ranging from harmless scavengers to aggressive biters.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	antlike flower, bark-gnawing, bess, blister, bombardier, borer, branch borer, twig borer, powderpost, fire, stag, carrion, checkered, click, darkling, comb-clawed, deathwatch, feather-winged, firefly, flat bark, flat grain, fruitworm, ground, tiger, hairy fungus, hister, ladybug, leaf, asparagus, potato, casebearing leaf, cobalt milkweed, dogbane, cucumber, flea, tortoise, lizard, long-horned, harlequin, metallic wood-boring, sap, soldier, rove, june, dung, rhinoceros, silken fungus, skin, spider, water scavenger, bark
CentipedeFast-moving predatory arthropods with venomous fangs. Aggressive hunters that inject painful, sometimes lethal venom.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	desert, black, burrowing, red-headed, common, common desert, feather tail, garden, house, banded, red feather tail, stone, blue ringed
CricketChirping insects with powerful jumping legs. Their incessant songs fill the night air in grasslands and caves alike.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	camel, cave, sand treader, field, tree
FerretSlender, burrowing carnivores with musky scent. Agile tunnel hunters that pursue prey into the tightest spaces.	tiny, small, large, giant	albino, black sable, black sable mitt, blaze, champagne, chocolate, chocolate mitt, cinnamon, cinnamon mitt, dalmatian, pewter, panda, striped white
GnatTiny swarming flies that harass larger creatures. Annoying in small numbers, suffocating in massive clouds.	tiny, small, large	buzzing, whirling, swarming
GopherBurrowing rodents with large cheek pouches. Their extensive tunnel networks can destabilize ground and ruin farmland.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	yellow-faced pocket, smoky pocket, desert pocket, plains pocket, chiriqui pocket, haspid pocket, mountain pocket, townsends pocket, tuza
MillipedeMany-legged arthropods that curl defensively when disturbed. Secretes foul-smelling toxins to deter predators.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	common, white legged snake, striped, flat backed, brown, black, white, red, garden
MoleNearly blind diggers with powerful clawed forelimbs. They tunnel ceaselessly through soil, sensing vibrations above.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	eastern, star-nosed, shrew
Praying MantisPatient predators with lightning-fast forelegs. Masters of camouflage who wait motionless before striking with terrifying speed.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	dead leaf, spotted-eye, ghost, orchid, spiny flower, budwing, thistle, wandering violin
RatCunning rodents that thrive in shadows and filth. Disease carriers with sharp teeth, they infest dungeons and sewers alike.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	enggano, forest, hoogerwerf, korinch’s, nillu, bulldog, kerala, andaman, timor, brown, sunburned, ricefield, summit, aceh, hoffmann’s, lesser ricefield, mindoro black, little soft-furred, osgood’s, palm, black, sahyadris forest, field, bonthain, oppossum, peleng, yellow-tailed, vogelkop mount, sula, spiny ceram, cape york, moss-forest, highland, dusky, bush, swamp, long-haired
ScorpionVenomous arachnids with powerful pincers and stinging tails. Patient ambush predators that strike with deadly precision.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	emperor, red claw, red, bark, forest, three striped, deathstalker, blue, pseudo, tailless whip, fat tail, hairy
SlugSoft-bodied gastropods leaving trails of slime. Slow but persistent, they thrive in damp environments and can carry disease.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	black, garden, hedgehog, red, forest, dusky, marsh, tree
SnailShelled gastropods carrying their homes on their backs. Defensive but slow, retreating into spiral shells when threatened.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	garden, brown-lipped, slender, wandering, strawberry
SnakeLegless reptiles ranging from harmless to lethally venomous. Cold-blooded predators that constrict or envenom their prey.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	viper adder, common adder, death adder, desert death adder, horned adder, long-nosed adder, many-horned adder, mountain adder, mud adder, dwarf adder, nightingale adder, puff adder, sand adder, water adder, anaconda, green anaconda, asp, ball python, bird, black-headed, black rat, black, red-bellied black, blind, boa, island boa, boa constrictor, emerald tree boa, rainbow boa, red-tailed boa, rosy boa, rubber boa, sand boa, tree boa, boiga, boomslang, brown, bull, bushmaster, canebrake, cantil, cascabel, cat-eyed, banded cat-eyed, green cat-eyed, andaman cat, dog-toothed cat, gold-ringed cat, gray cat, many-spotted cat, tawny cat, chicken, coachwhip, cobra, banded water cobra, black-necked cobra, black-necked pistting cobra, black tree cobra, burrowing cobra, cape cobra, common cobra, false cobra, flase water cobra, forest cobra, gold tree cobra, king cobra, monocled cobra, red spitting cobra, shield-nosed cobra, snouted cobra, spectacled cobra, spitting cobra, storm water cobra, white-lipped cobra, yellow cobra, congo, copperhead, coral, cpa ecoral, harlequin coral, high woods coral, corn, cottonmouth, crowned, egg-eater, eyelash viper, fishing, golden tree, ornate flying, banded flying, forest flame, garter, glossy, gopher, cape gopher, grass, green, ground, three-lined ground, harlequin, herald, blond hognose, dusty hognose, ringed hognose, speckled hognose, tri-color hognose, hoop, indigo, keelback, black-striped keelback, checked keelback, common keelback, hill keelback, orange-collared keelback, red-necked keelback, sikkim keelback, tiger keelback, white-lipped keelback, king brown, king, banded krait, blue krait, black krait, ceylon krait, lesser black krait, many-banded krait, red-headed krait, lora, lancehead, grey lora, lyre, mamba, black mamba, green mamba, mangrove, moccasin, mud, night, cat-eyed night, nose-horned, narrowhead garter, parrot, patchnose, pine, pipe, red-tailed pipe, python, ball python, black headed python, blood python, brown water python, inland carpet python, diamond python, olive python, red blood python, rough-scaled python, royal python, spotted python, queen, racer, buttermilk racer, raddy, rat, twin-spotted rat, rattle, twin-spotted rattle, sea, beaked sea, hook nosed sea, yellow-banded sea, yellow-bellied sea, sidewinder, sooth, striped, stiletto, sunbeam, tiger, common tiger, tree, long-nosed tree, brown tree, twig, vine, viper, asp viper, bamboo viper, bluntnose viper, carpet viper, crossed viper, leaf viper, palm viper, pit viper, banded pitviper, bamboo pitviper, brown spotted pitviper, mangrove pitviper, tiger pitviper, undulated pitviper, white-lipped tree viper, wart, water moccasin, water, whip, wolf, worm, zebra
SpiderEight-legged predators spinning silken webs. From ambush hunters to web-builders, they possess venomous fangs and cunning instincts.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	starbellied orbweaver, whiteknee tarantula, grass, turret, tan, desert blonde, ebony, brown, gold, zebra, barn, silver garden, yellow garden, banded garden, dewdop, funnelweb, pinktoe tarantula, whitetoe tarantula, purple tarantula, trapdoor, curlyhair tarantula, flameknee tarantula, orangebeauty tarantula, fireleg tarantula, redleg tarantula, rustrump tarantula, pink tarantula, redknee tarantula, redrump tarantula, twobanded antmimic, redspotted antmimic, greaterhorned tarantula, curvedhorn tarantula, straighthorned tarantula, longlegged sac, yellow sac, mustard tarantula, greenbottle blue, robber baron cave meshweaver, madla cave meshweaver, braken bat cave meshweaver, warton meshweaver, leafcurling sac, kaston sac, cinnamon tarantula, false wolf, trashline orbweaver, cobalt blue tarantula, black tarantula, chevron tarantula, tentweb weaver, tigerrump tarantula, six-spotted fishing, marbled cobweb, skeleton tarantula, hobo, giant house, bronze jumper, whitecollared tarantula, humpbacked orbweaver, spinybacked orbweaver, burrowing wolf, graysmoke tarantula, rose tarantula, tawnyred tarantula, chaco white knee, huntsman, starburst tarantula, marbled cellar, corner funnel weaver, cameroon brown tarantula, cameroon red tarantula, rustred tarantula, purple tarantula, southern house, furrow orbweaver, bridge orbweaver, salmon tarantula, stripeleg tarantula, widow, red widow, brown widow, black widow, orchard orbweaver, recluse, desert recluse, brown recluse, translucent green jumper, dimorphic jumper, greenlegged orbweaver, tuftlegged orbweaver, pike slender jumper, gray wall jumper, labyrinth orbweaver, spined micrathena, white micrathena, arrowshaped micrathena, flower crab, goldenrod crab, whitebanded crab, olive tarantula, spotted orbweaver, golden silk orbweaver, filmy dome, striped lynx, leaflitter crab, thickjawed orbweaver, blueleg tarantula, common house, thinlegged wolf, antmimic jumper, peppered jumper, king baboon tarantula, green lynx, apex mesh weaver, bold jumper, cardinal jumper, regal jumper, longbodied cellar, pirate wolf, nursery web, hammock, pantropical jumper, ornamental tarantula, zebra, sand recluse, striped orbweaver, short-bodied cellar, twospotted cobweb, false black widow, featherleg tarantula, orange chevron tarantula, tooth cave, longjawed orbweaver, silver longjawed orbweaver, pinkfoot tarantula, birdeater tarantula, slender crab, featherlegged orbweaver, lesserblack tarantula, hammerjawed jumper
WaspAggressive stinging insects that can attack repeatedly. Fiercely territorial and quick to swarm perceived threats.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	yellow jacket, hornet, paper, mud, mud dauber, potter, pollen
WeevilSnout-nosed beetles that bore into plants and stored grain. Destructive pests that can devastate food supplies.	tiny, small, large, giant, monstrous, goliath	acorn, nut, plum, grain, alfalfa, true, leaf-rolling, fungus