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| Wild animals should make the setting feel northern, practical, and dangerous without turning every forest walk into a monster fight. They are quarry, omens, pests, familiars, sacred symbols, and warning signs when something has gone wrong. | Wild animals should make the setting feel northern, practical, and dangerous without turning every forest walk into a monster fight. They are quarry, omens, pests, familiars, sacred symbols, and warning signs when something has gone wrong. |
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| ^ Creature ^ Campaign Summary ^ | * [[creatures:badgers|Badgers]] -- Nocturnal diggers that turn banks, field edges, and old barrows into riddled ground; usually avoided, but fierce when cornered. |
| | [[creatures:badgers|Badgers]] | Nocturnal diggers that turn banks, field edges, and old barrows into riddled ground; usually avoided, but fierce when cornered. | | * [[creatures:bats|Bats]] -- Cave and ruin dwellers whose sudden swarms can reveal hidden chambers, foul air, or something deeper waking underground. |
| | [[creatures:bats|Bats]] | Cave and ruin dwellers whose sudden swarms can reveal hidden chambers, foul air, or something deeper waking underground. | | * [[creatures:bears|Bears]] -- Large forest and mountain predators tied to fear, strength, winter hunger, and the berserker image. |
| | [[creatures:bears|Bears]] | Large forest and mountain predators tied to fear, strength, winter hunger, and the berserker image. | | * [[creatures:boars|Boars]] -- Violent forest animals and prestige quarry, with strong ties to Freyr, fertility, courage, and noble feasting. |
| | [[creatures:boars|Boars]] | Violent forest animals and prestige quarry, with strong ties to Freyr, fertility, courage, and noble feasting. | | * [[creatures:deer|Deer]] -- Common quarry and omen-bearing animals of the forest edge, useful for travel scenes, hunting, and signs of disturbance. |
| | [[creatures:deer|Deer]] | Common quarry and omen-bearing animals of the forest edge, useful for travel scenes, hunting, and signs of disturbance. | | * [[creatures:eagles|Eagles]] -- High-sky hunters linked to cliffs, omens, battlefields, and the upper reaches of the world tree. |
| | [[creatures:eagles|Eagles]] | High-sky hunters linked to cliffs, omens, battlefields, and the upper reaches of the world tree. | | * [[creatures:elk|Elk]] -- Massive antlered forest animals whose strength and scale make them feel close to the giant-haunted wilderness. |
| | [[creatures:elk|Elk]] | Massive antlered forest animals whose strength and scale make them feel close to the giant-haunted wilderness. | | * [[creatures:foxes|Foxes]] -- Clever small predators of field, shore, and forest edge, useful as omens of stealth, theft, and hidden trails. |
| | [[creatures:foxes|Foxes]] | Clever small predators of field, shore, and forest edge, useful as omens of stealth, theft, and hidden trails. | | * [[creatures:frogs|Frogs]] -- Wetland animals that make excellent signs of marsh health, poison, witchcraft, and seasonal change. |
| | [[creatures:frogs|Frogs]] | Wetland animals that make excellent signs of marsh health, poison, witchcraft, and seasonal change. | | * [[creatures:hawks|Hawks]] -- Sharp-eyed hunting birds associated with falconry, warning, and the high branches of mythic trees. |
| | [[creatures:hawks|Hawks]] | Sharp-eyed hunting birds associated with falconry, warning, and the high branches of mythic trees. | | * [[creatures:lynx|Lynx]] -- Silent forest cats of the northern woods, rarely seen but excellent for stealth, ambush, and uncanny watcher scenes. |
| | [[creatures:lynx|Lynx]] | Silent forest cats of the northern woods, rarely seen but excellent for stealth, ambush, and uncanny watcher scenes. | | * [[creatures:mountain-lions-puma-panther|Mountain Lions / Puma / Panther]] -- Not native to Scandinavia, but useful as foreign cats, exaggerated travel tales, or names applied to unfamiliar large predators. |
| | [[creatures:mountain-lions-puma-panther|Mountain Lions / Puma / Panther]] | Not native to Scandinavia, but useful as foreign cats, exaggerated travel tales, or names applied to unfamiliar large predators. | | * [[creatures:owls|Owls]] -- Night hunters that bring silence, watchfulness, hidden wisdom, and unease to forests, barns, and grave mounds. |
| | [[creatures:owls|Owls]] | Night hunters that bring silence, watchfulness, hidden wisdom, and unease to forests, barns, and grave mounds. | | * [[creatures:rabbits|Rabbits]] -- Small prey animals that support hunting scenes, survival play, and signs of seasonal or magical imbalance. |
| | [[creatures:rabbits|Rabbits]] | Small prey animals that support hunting scenes, survival play, and signs of seasonal or magical imbalance. | | * [[creatures:rats|Rats]] -- Settlement scavengers, shipboard pests, and plague-adjacent warning signs in granaries, docks, and ruins. |
| | [[creatures:rats|Rats]] | Settlement scavengers, shipboard pests, and plague-adjacent warning signs in granaries, docks, and ruins. | | * [[creatures:ravens|Ravens]] -- Sacred, clever carrion birds tied to Odin, battlefields, memory, news, and the boundary between omen and scavenger. |
| | [[creatures:ravens|Ravens]] | Sacred, clever carrion birds tied to Odin, battlefields, memory, news, and the boundary between omen and scavenger. | | * [[creatures:snakes|Snakes]] -- Cold-blooded hazards of rock, heath, and story, linked in myth to venom, treasure, boundaries, and world-encircling fear. |
| | [[creatures:snakes|Snakes]] | Cold-blooded hazards of rock, heath, and story, linked in myth to venom, treasure, boundaries, and world-encircling fear. | | * [[creatures:spiders|Spiders]] -- Web-builders of sheds, caves, old halls, and dark forests, easily shifted from natural pest to horror symbol. |
| | [[creatures:spiders|Spiders]] | Web-builders of sheds, caves, old halls, and dark forests, easily shifted from natural pest to horror symbol. | | * [[creatures:squirrels|Squirrels]] -- Small tree creatures made mythically important by Ratatoskr, the gossiping messenger of Yggdrasil. |
| | [[creatures:squirrels|Squirrels]] | Small tree creatures made mythically important by Ratatoskr, the gossiping messenger of Yggdrasil. | | * [[creatures:turtles|Turtles]] -- Rare or foreign-feeling reptiles in a northern campaign, best used around trade, warm coasts, magic, or imported curiosities. |
| | [[creatures:turtles|Turtles]] | Rare or foreign-feeling reptiles in a northern campaign, best used around trade, warm coasts, magic, or imported curiosities. | | * [[creatures:weasels|Weasels]] -- Small, fierce hunters of burrows, barns, and stone walls, useful for familiars and stealthy movement. |
| | [[creatures:weasels|Weasels]] | Small, fierce hunters of burrows, barns, and stone walls, useful for familiars and stealthy movement. | | * [[creatures:wolves-and-wargs|Wolves & Wargs]] -- Feared pack hunters and their darker fantasy kin, tied to wilderness danger, outlaws, war, hunger, and Fenrir’s shadow. |
| | [[creatures:wolves-and-wargs|Wolves & Wargs]] | Feared pack hunters and their darker fantasy kin, tied to wilderness danger, outlaws, war, hunger, and Fenrir’s shadow. | | |
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| ===== Monsters ===== | ===== Monsters ===== |
| These beings belong to myth, saga, folklore, and fantasy. Use them with more weight than ordinary animals. A monster should usually leave signs before it appears: missing livestock, changed weather, bad dreams, old taboos, cursed treasure, strange tracks, or people who refuse to speak its name. | These beings belong to myth, saga, folklore, and fantasy. Use them with more weight than ordinary animals. A monster should usually leave signs before it appears: missing livestock, changed weather, bad dreams, old taboos, cursed treasure, strange tracks, or people who refuse to speak its name. |
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| ^ Creature ^ Campaign Summary ^ | * [[creatures:dragons-wyrms|Dragons / Wyrms]] -- Ancient scaled terrors of treasure, poison, fire, wisdom, and doom; in Norse style they are often serpentine wyrms as much as winged dragons. |
| | [[creatures:dragons-wyrms|Dragons / Wyrms]] | Ancient scaled terrors of treasure, poison, fire, wisdom, and doom; in Norse style they are often serpentine wyrms as much as winged dragons. | | * [[creatures:draugr-and-gjenganger|Draugr & Gjenganger]] -- Restless dead from Norse and Scandinavian tradition: grave-haunting, revenge-driven, physically dangerous, and socially terrifying. |
| | [[creatures:draugr-and-gjenganger|Draugr & Gjenganger]] | Restless dead from Norse and Scandinavian tradition: grave-haunting, revenge-driven, physically dangerous, and socially terrifying. | | * [[creatures:fafnir|Fafnir]] -- The dragon of greed from the Sigurd cycle: once a dwarf or dwarf-like being, transformed by cursed treasure and slain by the hero Sigurd. |
| | [[creatures:fafnir|Fafnir]] | The dragon of greed from the Sigurd cycle: once a dwarf or dwarf-like being, transformed by cursed treasure and slain by the hero Sigurd. | | * [[creatures:gullinbursti|Gullinbursti]] -- Freyr’s golden boar, forged by dwarves: a shining divine mount, not a normal animal or random monster. |
| | [[creatures:gullinbursti|Gullinbursti]] | Freyr’s golden boar, forged by dwarves: a shining divine mount, not a normal animal or random monster. | | * [[creatures:hafgufa-lyngbakr|Hafgufa / Lyngbakr]] -- Island-like sea monsters from northern tradition, useful for ocean awe, false landfalls, and encounters where the terrain is alive. |
| | [[creatures:hafgufa-lyngbakr|Hafgufa / Lyngbakr]] | Island-like sea monsters from northern tradition, useful for ocean awe, false landfalls, and encounters where the terrain is alive. | | * [[creatures:hellhounds-garm|Hellhounds / Garm]] -- Supernatural hounds of fire, death, gates, and pursuit; Garmr is the great hound associated with Hel and Ragnarök. |
| | [[creatures:hellhounds-garm|Hellhounds / Garm]] | Supernatural hounds of fire, death, gates, and pursuit; Garmr is the great hound associated with Hel and Ragnarök. | | * [[creatures:kraken|Kraken]] -- A later Scandinavian sea-monster name that works well for enormous tentacled horror, deep-water fear, and sailor rumor. |
| | [[creatures:kraken|Kraken]] | A later Scandinavian sea-monster name that works well for enormous tentacled horror, deep-water fear, and sailor rumor. | | * [[creatures:landvaettir|Landvættir]] -- Land spirits that guard places, families, farms, coastlines, and regions; often better treated as powers to respect than monsters to kill. |
| | [[creatures:landvaettir|Landvættir]] | Land spirits that guard places, families, farms, coastlines, and regions; often better treated as powers to respect than monsters to kill. | | * [[creatures:marmenill|Marmenill (Mermen)]] -- Aquatic humanoids from Norse sea lore, sometimes prophetic, dangerous, or strange rather than simply merfolk with another name. |
| | [[creatures:marmenill|Marmenill (Mermen)]] | Aquatic humanoids from Norse sea lore, sometimes prophetic, dangerous, or strange rather than simply merfolk with another name. | | * [[creatures:nixie|Nixie]] -- Water spirits related to the nykr/nøkk tradition: beautiful, dangerous, musical, shapeshifting, and associated with drowning. |
| | [[creatures:nixie|Nixie]] | Water spirits related to the nykr/nøkk tradition: beautiful, dangerous, musical, shapeshifting, and associated with drowning. | | * [[creatures:sea-serpent|Sea Serpent]] -- Lesser kin or echoes of Jörmungandr: long ocean serpents that threaten ships, reefs, and storm-dark waters. |
| | [[creatures:sea-serpent|Sea Serpent]] | Lesser kin or echoes of Jörmungandr: long ocean serpents that threaten ships, reefs, and storm-dark waters. | | * [[creatures:trolls|Trolls]] -- Wilderness and mountain beings that range from giant-like monsters to uncanny neighbors; dangerous, old, and varied in Scandinavian tradition. |
| | [[creatures:trolls|Trolls]] | Wilderness and mountain beings that range from giant-like monsters to uncanny neighbors; dangerous, old, and varied in Scandinavian tradition. | | |
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| ===== Races ===== | ===== Races ===== |