Memento Mori RPG - Beastiary

Monster Types

Beasts

Beasts are great animals, predators in fur, feathers, hide and more. Creatures of land and sea, with claws, teeth, tails etc. They often exibit an imposing appearance, quickly distinguishing them from animals even when displaying similar features. Even if size is an often an advantage, one would be wise not to underestimate the smaller beasts.

The beasts are wild creatures finding their lairs in the most recluded parts of our world. Mountains, forest, caves and seas, beasts find their home away from civilisations. However, if flesh is not on their side, it is not impossible for a beast to find its way close to a isolated village away from their peers or make remote clonies their hunting grounds. These can none the less be vast, it is highly recommended to be prepared for several days if one were to hunt these predetors.

They are carnivorous predators who can hunt their prey for hours without weavering. They fight ferociously and can be seen in the traces they leave. It leave many clues of their passage including claw marks, lot of blood splatter but rarely a body. They fight to eat, therefor they do not leave their reward behind unless they felt threatened. They are very territorial and will be seen fighting anything challenging its suppremacy over it. Beasts are not monsters with high mind, although their use of their instinct are optimal and often have acute senses. It would be wise not to note their incredible ability to know your presence beyond their sight.

Beasts are creatures of natural origin, annimal that became what they are or saw them extinct. The evolve and endured the world changing through hundreds of thousands of years and continue to slowly change for every youngling we leave behind.

Hybrid

Hybrids are a mixing of creatures and animals alike. If a trait exist in a tangeble, maliable sense under flesh: a hybrid could display it. Wings, Claws, beac, tails, anything goes. But their greatest asset is their mind, capable even on rare occasions of magic.

Hybrids choose their habitats wisely. Though they share the same remote territories as beasts: mountains, forests, caves, and deep waters, hybrids do not settle randomly. Their nests are carefully chosen, offering tactical advantages and often laced with signs of their intelligence. Traps, deceptions, etc. Hybrids will have you think them beasts until the very last moment. False nests with loot, lured beasts to be preyed on instead of them and so on. If you find a nest of an hybrid, odds are it is not.

They are carnivorous predators who, unlike beasts which hunt solely to survive, can hunt to learn, manipulate situations to their advantages, and sometimes simply to amuse themselves. They are even inteligent enough to keep certain animals or settlements as livestock. Satiating themselves only to the extend it doesnt disturb its hunting ground. Their methods varies, and their victims can display signs of their curiosity. They plan, observe, set traps and even can use extremly rudimentry tools. Sometimes, scene of hybrid attacks will dispay signs of multiple beasts with different attributes, if you are lucky. Feathers and great-cat paws, claws and horse prints. Otherwise, it will prove difficult to identify a hybrid as such. Facing a hybrid, is not merely to face a hunter, but to face a creature that perhaps understands the situation better than you do.

Hybrids were not natural to the world at first. They are the result of thousands of witches attempt at the best companion. The vast majority of them breed with magical means. The scent of magic continues to taint their beings, though severely weakened with time. One must have the proper training to recognise the signs of such magic aura.

Insectoid

Insectoids, or arthropods, are creatures with numerous limbs meant for crawling, digging, climbing etc. These appendages are adapted to their needs, evolved into several directions on several generations from their multitude of offsprings. These are accompagnied with secretions of all kind: Webs, mucus, venom, poison, etc. Insectoids bear no bones within their bodies; instead, their strength comes from a hardened exoskeleton that shields and supports them.

They are extremly invasive creatures. They can be found from the edge of the world to the very cellar beneath your warm home. However, since they tend to stick relatively close to their peers, lairs in town and cities and even village are rare affairs. Those are often riddled with youngs in thee dozens, maybe even hundreds if left without attention for too long. Layered with secretions, eggs, filth the insectoids carries, one would be wise to bring spared closes when hunting root them out from their lairs. Some lairs are temporary, abandoned as food runs out, while others become sprawling warrens that spread unseen beneath or above the earth. Because of this, nests are often in relative proximity to an other of their kind, and always hidden plain sight. May it be in the depth of the woods, caverns or ruins, sea or land.

Creatures belonging to this category are necrophages, insectivore and detritivore. They thrive where rot gathers, consuming the the dead and the insignificant lives beneath our feet. Yet hunger often drives them to hunt the weak or unwary, dragging them down to add to the feast. Patient and opportunistic, however mindless, they do not quite exhibit signs of territory, instead feast wherever they stand no matter what or who is around. For as long as there is food and shelter for them to hide in, they will mindlessly attack anything they think they might eat. Insectoids are cursed by an unsatiable hunger and expansion. The aftermath of such attack will almost systematicly be riddled with secretions. They can be observed in different groupings. Swarms move as one, clustering together to overwhelm their prey through sheer numbers. Hives act with a shared consciousness, their will guided, or dominated, by a more intelligent overseer. Colony-minded remain more individualistic, yet their instinctive infestations spread relentlessly, each member contributing to the growth of the whole.

Insectoids are creatures of natural origin. Some may have been enlarged by sites polutted by magic, however, adaptation and evolutions made them the unrivaled pest they are today. Through time, very few insectoids kind were truly exterminated. For every killed, hundreds are hidden.

Dracoid

Dracoids are scaled creatures, winged or not. They have long tails and teeth of a material found only in their mouth, capable of withstanding the crushing of stones. Some possess the ability to exhale or spit destructive elements of which they adapted to, or were innate to them.

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Category

Features

Habitat

Behaviour

Origins

Monster Types

Beasts

Hybrid

Insectoid

Dracoid

Undead

Infected

Cursed

Spectral

Plantoid

Construct

Ogroid

Primitive

Witches

Fiends

Fairies