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Bestiary

Here is a list of the various entities and beasts indigenous to Tellur. A list of monster manual appropriate creatures will also be added.

Fremd

The Fremd are the rulers of Tellur, personifications of nightmares, dreams, and insanity. While the Fremd exist in all realities and worlds, they normally have no form or substance, existing on the edge of being.

Shoggoth

Protoplasmic beings of unnatural size, who consume everything they encounter. By no means unintelligent, the shoggoths were once used to construct the mighty cities of the Elder Race, using their own bodies as building material. Eventually, the shoggoths did what any engineered slave race does; gain free will and sentience, and destroy their masters. When the shoggoths could find no more prey, having consumed most of the Elder Race's civilization and their lesser servitors, the shoggoths retreated underground and into the depths of the sea. They were driven out by oxygen generated by cyanobacteria, to which the shoggoth had no initial resistance, and most of that species perished at that time. Most shoggoths lurk in the abyss of land and sea, but occasionally, one rises to the surface and begins to feed. Note that while shoggoths are naturally predatory towards all life, they do have certain vendettas against the Elder Race and their renegade branch, the Doppelgangers.

Flying Polyp

The polyps are a violent species that has destroyed thousands of worlds. These spacefaring jellyfish seek to destroy all non-polyp life, though they overestimated their strength when provoking the Mi-Go, who wiped out most of the worlds they had settled. A few were able to conceal themselves on Tellur, inadvertantly protected by the Fremd Barrier. They have made the caverns of Subtellur a even more hazardous than normal, and occasionally emerge on the surface to wreak havoc.

Morgawr

Plesiosaur-like creatures.

Black Shuck

Dog-like entities of darkness and despair.

Pogeyan

Mysterious large cats that appear and disappear as if they are made of mist.