Baboon (baboon)A powerfully built, highly social monkey of the Kheperi lowlands, dwelling in rocky escarpments and river margins near human settlements.
Caracal (caracal)A powerfully built desert hunting cat of the Khazryn steppe, prowling rocky scrubland and thorn thickets for prey it ambushes with explosive leaps.
Cheetah (cheetah)A lightly built sprinting cat of the Khazryn grasslands, built for blistering speed to run down gazelle across open gravel plains.
Cobra (cobra)A large, fast venomous serpent of the Kheperi lowlands, haunting river margins, granaries, and ruins where its bite delivers swift death.
Condor (condor)A massive soaring vulture with a ten-foot wingspan, sacred to highland faith, spotting carrion from staggering altitudes above the western peaks.
Crane (crane)A tall, elegant wading bird of Tānvür's wetlands, so revered in imperial culture that harming one carries legal punishment.
Gazelle (gazelle)A small, extraordinarily fast antelope of the Khazryn Desert, grazing gravel plains and scrublands in herds that flee predators at blistering speed.
Giraffe (giraffe)The tallest animal alive, an improbable long-necked herbivore browsing the high canopy of the Xerathian savannahs and open woodlands.
Hippopotamus (hppptms)A three-to-four-ton river herbivore of Xerathia's marshes, more lethal and aggressive than any crocodile despite its herbivorous diet.
Howler Monkey (hwlrmnky)A large, heavily built canopy folivore of K'ich'chik's forests, living in troops and producing the loudest vocalization of any land animal.
Ibex (ibex)A powerfully built wild goat of the Dunharan cliffs, the supreme climbing specialist scaling sheer rock faces and canyon escarpments with ease.
Jackal (jackal)A small, adaptable canid of the Kheperi lowlands that hunts and scavenges along riverbanks, village middens, and necropolis complexes among the dead.
Jaguar (jaguar)The stocky apex cat of K'ich'chik's jungles and riverbanks, wielding the strongest proportional bite of any cat, able to puncture turtle shell and skull.
Leopard (leopard)A solitary, nocturnal ambush cat of the Kheperi hills and river forests, pound-for-pound among the strongest and most adaptable of all great cats.
Llama (llama)A domesticated highland camelid of K'ich'chik serving as pack animal, fiber and meat source, and guardian of smaller livestock in mountain caravans.
Macaque (macaque)A stocky, intelligent medium-sized monkey of Vedyara thriving everywhere from temples to cities by stealing and extorting food from humans.
Onager (onager)A wild ass of the Khazryn steppe, a medium equine of legendary speed, endurance, and ferocity ranging across gravel plains and salt flats.
Orca (orca)A massive, intelligent pack-hunting marine mammal and apex predator of every ocean, the most dangerous animal encounter possible on open water.
Oryx (oryx)A large, powerful desert antelope surviving the most barren arid wastes of Dunhara where no other large herbivore can endure.
Ostrich (ostrich)The largest living bird of Dunhara, a flightless seven-to-nine-foot desert runner carried on a pair of devastatingly powerful legs.
Painted Dog (pntddg)A lean, endurance-built savannah canid that hunts in coordinated packs of ten to thirty with unmatched efficiency across the Xerathian plains.
Peacock (peacock)A spectacular Vedyaran bird whose iridescent male unfurls a seven-foot train of elongated tail coverts in the most dazzling display in the world.
Polar Bear (plrbr)The apex arctic predator of Nordheim, a solitary fifteen-hundred-pound hunter of ice and freezing water, a pure carnivore unlike the omnivorous brown bear.
Quetzal (quetzal)A small, brilliantly iridescent jungle trogon whose trailing green tail feathers are prized above gold across Ki'ichek civilization.
Reindeer (reindeer)A hardy northern cervid in which both sexes grow antlers, supremely adapted to survive and sustain entire cultures in bitter arctic cold.
Saluki (saluki)A lean, elegant desert sighthound of ancient lineage, built entirely for speed to course gazelle and hare across open dunes.
Seal (seal)A sleek, fish-eating pinniped of northern coasts whose meat, blubber, and hide sustain coastal Normen communities through bitter winters.
Tapir (tapir)A shy, barrel-bodied jungle herbivore with a trunk-like nose, foraging riverbanks by night and swimming to escape confrontation.
Tiger (tiger)The world's largest cat, a solitary ambush hunter sitting atop every food chain across jungle, grassland, and river margin.
Vulture (vulture)A massive soaring desert scavenger with a nine-foot wingspan, riding thermals for hours to feast wherever death visits the steppe.
Walrus (walrus)An immense, tusked pinniped weighing up to three thousand pounds, hauling out in aggressive colonies on northern rocky shores and ice floes.
Water Buffalo (wtrbffl)A massive semi-aquatic bovine of tropical floodplains, valued as a powerful draft beast yet formidable when running wild in feral herds.
Wild Horse (wldhrs)A stocky, powerful equine ancestor of domestic breeds, roaming the open steppe in bands with heavy bone and tireless endurance.
Wildebeest (wldbst)A large, shaggy savannah bovine whose vast migratory herds define southern Xerathia's grasslands in their sweeping annual movement.
Yak (yak)A massive, cold-adapted highland bovine providing milk, transport, and survival to mountain peoples amid the harsh peaks of Tānvür.
