Dreams, ideas, and miscellaneous nonsense

Of course I agree.

An odd idea I had.

Cuddlefish
Size: 2-10 feet
Danger level: Minimal

Not to be confused with a cuttlefish, this is a type of creature that looks like a cross between a sea cucumber and a lamprey. They vary in size, sometimes reaching the length of a car. They are utterly harmless, feeding on seaweed and sediment, and can be found in the Topazial Sea. They taste horrible, so they aren't often preyed upon, but they are very popular with mermaid children. With their incredibly soft, boneless bodies, docile nature, and inability to be hurt by squeezing, they are often made into pets or the aquatic version of a teddybear.

Tree of Ten-Thousand Colors: an incredibly rare plant, they grow in the Misty Glade, and nowhere else. Said to be the ancestors of the Carinra, these immensely beautiful trees have large, spade-shaped leaves, no two of which are the same colour. When crushed and made into paint, these leaves provide amazing, novel hues, and any artist would pay a fortune for even a single branch. The leaves are also slightly luminous, and a patch of glowing, multi-colored mist is a clear indicator of a Tree's presence.

Aldraca: An odd, long fruit, found throughout the jungle areas of Felarya, that has a tough greenish shell, but is filled with round, blue-yellow blobs which contain a thick juice in which floats several seeds. This makes it a favorite among adventurers, who poke then and drink the juice through the hole. At certain times of the year, these plants open up and drop the "berries", which burst when they hit the ground and scatter the seeds over a small area. They tend to grow in large tangles due to this.

Barach: Coming from an Elvish curseword, this is a type of bramble. With a dark hue and nasty, violet thorns that glow in the dark, these briers will hook clothing, snatch at hair, and draw blood if gone near. They will reach out to anything living that comes near them, and many a creature has been caught permanently in these brambles. Indeed, any traveler in the Sunfall Thicket or Evernight forest would do well to steer clear of these plants, or risk becoming entangled, quite possibly trapped until starvation, thirst or predator intervention, by the mobile-limbed, vicious plants.


Had plants on the brain recently, and came out with these. Critique would be greatly appreciated.

About the Barach, cutting whatever is hooked or the vine itself isn't an option.

Not sure what you are saying. It's a bramble. The thorns act as regular thorns do. They hook in clothes, scratch you up, possibly trap you. Could you clarify?

You said that some people were permanently caught in the brambles, which to me, doesn't make much sense, since it implies that once you're caught, you're done for.

Well, you are. Unless you have a method of hacking your way out, or magic, it's highly unlikely you are going to get out. You're hooked on several dozen barbs, all holding you in place, hooked into your skin, clothes, and hair. Not to mention the brambles will actively attempt to snag you. If you're caught, and you can't cut or enchant your way out, you are trapped. Permanently. Or at least until you starve, die of thirst, exposure, ect.

Crawling out of the depths of inactivity to deposit this.

Aldrax Pod - A large bulb of a plant that can grow to the size of a small car, composed of a tri-sectioned pod that opens to reveal sticky inner walls lined with many small hairs. On being approached, the plant reacts to vibrations by darting forward on a long, heavy stalk and engulfing whatever is passing by. While terrifying, there is actually nothing to worry about. The plant essentially uses the thin hairs to brush the skin, and digests only the dead skin, hair, and other particulates, cleaning off the 'victim' before expelling them thoroughly cleaned. New adventurers are known to panic on their first encounter with one, and veterans taking on green members sometimes use Aldrax Pods to gauge how well said newcomer reacts to fear. Or sometimes as a joke.

However, these plants also serve a more serious purpose for some neko tribes and the more nature-attuned elven peoples. Corpses, being entirely dead tissue, are completely absorbed by the plant if deposited, and this serves as a ritualistic burial method for some of the more tribal folk in the jungle. A handful of villages even grow them in patches for this purpose, a graveyard of pods.


Ithimi - A peculiar fish that lives mostly in warmer waters of the Topazial Sea, it looks rather bulky and fat, but with a series of small, oval fins running along its body, which propel it along in rapid fluttering motions. While not fast, they have an astonishing mechanism that lets them feed from a distance. THe fish appears fat due to an incredibly long set of muscles and tendons that extend through it's body. When it sees prey, it detaches it's jaws entirely and fires them outward on a sheath of muscle that allows it to extend its reach by nearly double its own length, averaging seven feet.

Chirithit - A kind of bird that nests near harpies and other large avian creatures. Their talons are short and blunt at the ends, and their feet heavily calloused and bony. With these feet curled into 'fists', they smash open eggs and eat the contents. While not threatening to much of anything but eggs, they are incredibly ferocious in defending their own nests, bludgeoning intruders and screeching at them. Harpies hate them with a passion for obvious reasons, and calling someone a 'Chirithit' is a harpy's way of saying someone is hypocritical (due to the defense of the bird's own eggs while attacking the eggs of others.)

Dunfish - a mud-brown fish of wholly unremarkable size, shape, and disposition. It eats generic sort of fish things like insects and aquatic plants, and does regular fish things like swimming. It is easily the most boring of fish, showing up anywhere in fresh water and subsequently being generally dull and forgettable. In fact, it is so incredibly boring that most predators like mermaids and other, larger fish simply don't bother eating them.

Redbite Viper - a venomous serpent with large, oddly reflective eyes, maroon scales, and growing to lengths of twenty feet at times. Residing in the Jungle of Perils, this snake is unusual in that it sees shades of red as distinct colours, each one unique. This not only negates most camouflage for potential prey, but also allows it it use its special tracking method of hunting. Its bite is not only neurotoxic, but also causes a protein reaction that turns the victim a very specific shade of bright red. Even if the target escapes initially, the viper has no trouble tracking the victim's colour, which also, as a bonus, hides its prey to other competing predators but not to the viper itself. Scarlet elves have a particular legend saying how the viper played a part in making their tribe have the skin colour that they do, and some of the elves even have tamed Redbites and use them as tracking animals.


There we go.