Creatures

There are many creatures throughout Yliakum, in here you will find information on both ferocious (and not so ferocious) creatures as well as rogues and other vile characters.

Wild Animals

Rarely are wild animals found in large cities except for rats which come and infest the sewers and cellars. These animals are often the best for people seeking to train since they range from simple creatures such as rats to extremely powerful monsters such as ulbernauts. Because of this, some creatures have been brought to the Hydlaa Arena so that various people can fight them without having to look for them.

Arangma

Forest Arangma

The easiest to find, this arangma subspecies is also the easiest to defeat.

Appearance: Green, very green, to blend in with its suroundings.
Strength: Due to their brittle forms, Forest Arangmas are fairly easy to defeat.
Natural Habitat: Wooded Areas and Forests.

Frost Arangma

Appearance: The carapace is purple with large green spots, the legs are blue.
Strength: Due to their brittle forms, Frost Arangmas are fairly easy to defeat. Mages beware, however. Due to it's predilection for the cold, attempting to freeze this creature to death is unlikely to work.
Natural Habitat: Cold and Dark places.

Weaver Arangma

Spending most of its time skulking around, a weaver arangma may often crawl away rather than seeking a fight with a potential aggressor.

Appearance: Purple body, with turquoise-blue legs and a vivid yellow and red marking on the carapace.
Strength: Due to their brittle exo-skeletal structure, weaver arangmas are fairly easy to defeat. However their shell is tougher than a forest arangma's.
Natural Habitat: Grimy areas such as the Hydlaa Sewer.

Vesper Arangma

This subspecies of arangma can be found in the darkest, deepest shadows.

Appearance: Almost completely purple, save for some green and blue spots on the carapace.
Strength: Due to their brittle exo-skeletal structure, vesper arangmas are fairly easy to defeat. However, it should be noted that it possess some magical resistance.
Natural Habitat: Deep shadows such as those found at the bottom of the Hydlaa Sewer.

Sand Arangma

This subspecies of arangma can be found in sandy places, such as deserts.

Appearance: Almost completely black, with some yellow details on their abdomen.
Strength: Sand Arangmas have a strong exo-esqueletal armor, while they tend to be a bit resistant to spells. The explorer must be wary about those bugs, as Sand Arangmas are one of the stronger arangmas in Yliakum.
Natural Habitat: Sand dunes like the ones outside Eagle Bronze Doors.

Biorlitrosan

A semi-intelligent, quadrupedal mammal. It uses limited native speech. It is herbivorous, and thusly eats grass and grains. It can manipulate tools using tusks and a thick, forked, prehensile tongue.

This creature is not yet implemented.	Appearance: All grey, and about 1.5m high at the shoulder.
	Strength: Unknown.
	Natural Habitat: Biorlitrosans live in burrows or simple huts on all six levels, but forage in grasslands.

Barn Bouncetail

Barn Bouncetails are insects, so named because it jumps on its hind legs while using its tail for control. Although not rare, they are not very common either. Barn Bouncetails originally come from The Barn, the second level, and just like many other insects, they eat plants. However, they seem to like certain kinds of rare flowers in particular, which makes them very much disliked in the gardeners' community. Luckily for gardeners, Barn Bouncetails flee from the odour of consumer pheromones (consumers being one of their natural enemies).

This creature is not yet implemented.	Appearance: A green insect-like creature that is half a centimeter in length.
	Strength: Fairly stupid and not a serious threat to the experienced.
	Natural Habitat: They are often found around plants and flowers.

Carkarass

Carkarasses are one of the only type of flying creatures, along with Pterosaurs and Megarases. They are seldom seen in the world of the living, but many people coming back from the Death Realm claim to have seen some flying around. Not much is known about them; scientists know only that they live in the Death Realm and that they are reptiles capable of hovering, gliding and low flight. Coming across one is seen as a bad omen.

Appearance: A feathered, flying creature with two tails. Their height can very from 1m to 2m.
Strength: Not a hindrance to any experienced adventurer, but amateurs should beware.
Natural Habitat: Wilderness area.

Poison Carkarass

Appearance: A Poison Carkarass resembles the normal Carkarass. Most people cannot distinguish one from the other.
Strength: Poison Carkarasses are far stronger then normal Carkarasses, so beware when engaging them in combat.
Natural Habitat: Grimy areas such as the Hydlaa Sewer.

Fire Carkarass

Appearance: Fire Carkarasses are identical in most respects to other Carkarasses, but are easily distinguished by their fiery colour.
Strength: Fire Carkarasses are as strong as Poison Carkarasses.
Natural Habitat: The Fire Carkarass lives in the Death Realm.

Clacker

Clackers are very closely related to crabs, having a hard exoskeleton, which gives them protection and makes them very robust. Their two front limbs are tipped with razor-sharp blades, which can be used to inflict serious damage on anyone who comes within range, but they are generally harmless if you keep your distance. They are named for the sound they produce with their legs. Clacker legs have been at times fashioned into crude tools, and their meat is considered edible, though an 'acquired taste'. They are one of the few omnivorous insects.

Appearance: An insect-like creature resembling an over-sized hermit crab.
Strength: Fairly stupid and not a serious threat to the experienced.
Natural Habitat: The arena has a fairly large population of these, but mainy can be found in the sewers and dungeons throughout Yliakum. Clackers are sometimes hunted for their meat, which is used to prepare many flavourful dishes.

Jade Clacker

Appearance: Physically, they look just like Clackers, save for their green colouring.
Strength: Fairly stupid and but a more serious threat then the common clacker.
Natural Habitat: Jade clackers are the rarest of clackers. It is not well known where they live.

Thunder Clacker

Unlike common Clackers, Thunderclackers are a brilliant, deep green shade. Because of their coloring, they often blend in with grass and flora, and are rarely seen.

Appearance: Physically, they look just like Clackers, save for their their royal blue and silvery grey colouring.
Strength: Basically, they are slightly stronger than ordinary Clackers. They can be very dangerous when they clack their thundering sound.
Natural Habitat: Thunderclackers are found mostly in the wilds, and are quite uncommon near towns.

Coamti

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Consumers

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Derghir

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Gawerts

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Gobbles

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Gorweal

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Grendol

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Rats

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Riverling

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Tefusang

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Tloke

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Trepor

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Ulbernauts

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Velnishi

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Domesticated Animals

Domesticated animals are creatures which have been adapted to work or to just provide company. Of the latter, the most common species are the Groffel and the Yulbar. However, there are some people who might want a clacker for a pet. Animals like the Pterosaur, the Goujah and the Megaras aren't often kept as pets, but as working beasts as they are quite practical.

Drifter

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Goujah

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Groffel

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Kikiri

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Megaras

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Pterosaur

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Rivnak

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Yulbar

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Malicious Characters

People seeking a fight can not only attack various creatures, they can also try to kill rogues, mercenaries and other vile characters. Some of this lot are extremely powerful and hard to vanquish, whereas others are weak enough to be defeated with little or no skill.

Dark Rogue

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Dlayo Gladiator

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Dlayo Gladiator

Expert Gladiator

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Expert Gladiator

Gladiators

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Mercenaries

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Onyx Dagger

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Rogues

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Cutthroat

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In Character References

In game, a couple of books refer to Yliakum creatures. They can be found in the famous Hydlaan library owned by the Ylian Jayose: Clacker Ecology Communicating with Creatures Flying Animals Monsters: Consumers Monsters: Gobbles Monsters: Trepor Monsters: Ulbernaut Selected Beasts of Yliakum Vol. 1: A-K Selected Beasts of Yliakum Vol. 2: L-Y The Derghir Menace