The Bestiary

A baseline of peoples, ecologies, dangers, wonders, and living evidence—never a closed roster of combat units.

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Orientation

Reading a Living Entry

Demand words describe the present circumstance, not a fixed power tier.

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Part I

The Peoples of the Tread

The first seven are playable Lineages; Underfolk and Bloomkin widen the shared world beyond them.

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Part II · §11

Wildlife on a Wanderer’s Back

A Wanderer carries biomes, migrations, husbandry, predators, wonders, and local variation at continental scale.

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Part II · §12

The Depths

Worked ground is documented; the deep workings disagree; the undocumented has no reliable account.

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Part II · §§13–15

The Low World, Giants, Dragons, and Wanderers

Some life belongs to an environment people can barely enter; some is too singular for encounter taxonomy.

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Part II · §16

The Small Fey

Hide-native beings create trouble through attention, exchange, appetite, and curiosity rather than a universal moral nature.

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Part III

Using This Book

The test for a new entry is belonging, not prior listing.

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