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Pages torn from “Creatures, Neten and other Deor” covered with looping spirals of text. The Destructive Scourge of Texts and Libraries and the Foe of Archivists Be that you possess greater knowledge and set great stock by learning you have other archives beyond this tome. Guard yourself against the wryddlas. Such beast is a rodent, a hand’s length tip to end, with fur cinerous, naked tail, and eyes in threeside. The wryddlas may eat the pages of one tome and then burrow through to any other within a kindred’s reach. For escape and sustenance is such leap made for it is the favored prey of predatory ideas and it grazes upon the word writ in turn. The eyes of a wryddlas are saphir in truth: stones. Powdered and consumed in a span of time some knowledge may be imparted. Arranged for a ring to grace a finger the wryddlas eyes suit enchantments predictive. The Maniacal Defender of its Territory and the Bane of All Trespassers Beware you who venture upon untrammeled coast! These pristine sands may conceal the nest of the porcupine drake from your sight. You may not fear this small creature but in turn it does not fear you. The wanderer who tramples its nest will be pricked. Its scutes are barbed as any fishhook and it will attach to the offending. Woe to the one effecting its removal! It may yet attach to this savior. It crawls and squalls and bites all the while so that any blow directed against might strike instead its victim. A tincture of its blood may compel the drinker or drive them to single-minded fury. Sorcerous sympathies enable the use of its skin in recalling possessions. One with no other company or regard for safety may induce the nesting of the porcupine drake to deter visitors of all sorts. The Gleeful Martyr for the Propagation of its Kind and the Joy of Witnesses Akin to a salamander borne aloft is the gwiddring. On drakefly wing it buzzes but its bulbous shape is buoyed by ether within. Toothless, gentle, wide-eyed, no threat or animosity it holds for kindred or beast. Yet within such placid heart burns a duty dire. Upon the sight of open brand the gwiddring will move with unguessed alacrity. In immolation it assures its offspring, for the thoughts the sight engenders in an onlooker are the genesis of infants of its kind. The beauty of the immolative burst! The selfless love for offspring unseen! It is bittersweet balm to witness. It is only a heart of stone that resists. One open to its sacrifice shall feel efforts redoubled with dauntless determination. Strive and the seed planted within will bring forth a new generation. The Idle Repeater of Words Obscure and the Boon to Linguists Whist on the wing and still too of utterance is the habit of the corkscrew owl. So named for its twisting comb it possesses a keen sense. Hearing a voice it shall speak the words in another tongue for it understands and knows all speech. Let not the listener beguile themselves, however. The merest pause or nuance may change meaning and this beast shall mislead. It is only a fowl. The corkscrew owl is iridescent in plumage and a pleasing sight to the eye. Encouraged to roost it sustains itself on sound and excretes only soft translation. Tokens made of tailfeather are used to bring into being the words marinated within. The Indecisive Grig which Allows Neither Escape nor Approach Wading through stream or shallow water may carry you into reach of the amber eel. Once within you will find your way slowed. If headway cannot be made the eel desires no intrusion. If retreat cannot be made the eel is hungry. In either case departure is wise barring especial need. Neither atter nor magical grasp accounts for your stymie. Freedom of movement will effect no escape. The amber eel sends the very lightnings from its body and protection from such is the only ward. Removal from water will not disarm this eel and only limit its purview. Staves and wands in the command of galvanic forces make use of the eel’s skin. A dust of its teeth can protect or negate shocks both vitreous and resinous. The amber’s warm glow may attract the hand of a suitor when a dye of its blood permeates a glove.