Cereus

Cereus ↠ Folktale, Sighthound

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A hare appears at the edge of the forest. Something about it seems odd. There's a voice in your head that tells you to ignore it and leave it be. Yet for some reason you follow it. It begins to make its way back into the forest stopping occasionally to stand on its hind legs and look back at you, as if checking to see if you're still following. After following it for who knows how long you come to a clearing. The hare stops once more and looks back at you again. It stares for much longer until you hear the sounds of leaves rustling. The hare sprints off leaving you alone in this unfamiliar location. The rustling of leaves continues, followed by the sounds of twigs snapping. There is something approaching you. You take a step back once it finally emerges. A strange hound towers over you. Its stare is unnerving.

━ ✦ Low Priority Familiars ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Here is a list of familiars that may pop up in my bestiary as discovered but I do not currently have them in my hoard or vault. You can see a list of undiscovered familiars that I'm more interested in here.

━ ✧ Coliseum Familiars ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Burrow Bear

Familiar

Known for creating extensive burrows, these ursine creatures can undermine otherwise solid construction efforts.

4500

Crystalhide Jester

Familiar

Knock knock! Who's there? Crystalhide Jester! Who? A turtle cannot write or finish a joke.

5100

Death's-Head Stag

Familiar

Some consider it a harbinger of misfortune, but most dismiss such omens as old-wyrm's tales. (KS-sponsored by Windswept.)

1500

Disoriented Spirit

Familiar

The very last thing you wanted to encounter on a dark night.

7500

Flowering Pohip

Familiar

The snore heard 'round the world.

4000

Hydra

Familiar

Will you forget the head-slicing thing?!

4725

Malevolent Spirit

Familiar

A lumbering mass of bones. This shambling horror is draped in rotting cloth and surrounded by a shroud of thick mist.

7500

Mossy Pohip

Familiar

Fantastic at devouring pond flora, except that which is deposited on its back.

4000

Rockback Charger

Familiar

The imposing form of this great beast can look like a pile of boulders... until it's too late.

4800

Spiney Whale

Familiar

Only in the past century have these mysterious leviathans begun to surface. Their origin remains unknown.

5000

Wave Sweeper

Familiar

Patrolling the shallows, it sweeps all who would challenge it aside.

9000

━ ✧ GMP Familiars ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Black Dwarf Unicorn

Familiar

This dwarf unicorn has lost its magic. Its once shining coat is dull and blackened. The horns of black unicorns are worthless.

0

Dunhoof Ambassador

Familiar

The dunhoof herd of centaurs have been the allies of dragons for years beyond counting. This one is an ambassador to your lair.

0

Dwarf Unicorn

Familiar

Slight and sleek, this unicorn possesses all of the charm, but less than half the magic and size of a true unicorn.

0

Fluted Pukasloth

Familiar

The Pukasloth has a pair of webbed wings that are rumored to have once allowed the creature to fly. Nowadays they are vestigial and mostly used for looking adorable.

0

Hati

Familiar

Brother to Sköll, Hati seeks to devour the moon.

0

Mock Firebird

Familiar

The mock firebird is not a firebird at all. This avian’s plumage mimics the colors of a true firebird to protect it from predators.

0

Skoll

Familiar

Brother to Hati, Sköll seeks to devour the sun.

0

━ ✧ Swipp Familiars ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Autumn Sea Dragon

Familiar

These creatures will conceal themselves among sea grasses, adding a touch of autumn color to underwater fields of green.

0

Vermillion Epiptite

Familiar

It's rumored that special epiptites can talk and grant wishes! You just have to speak to enough of them to find one...

500

━ ✧ Sprites ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Earth Sprite

Familiar

Entourage of the Earthshaker. (Rockbreakers Ceremony Holiday Familiar 2013.)

0

Nature Sprite

Familiar

Entourage of the Gladekeeper. (Greenskeeper Gathering Holiday Familiar 2014.)

0

━ ✧ Bears ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Sunbeam Ursa

Familiar

Guardian of the Sunbeam Ruins. (Brightshine Jubilee 2014.)

0

Livewire Grizzly

Familiar

Guardian of the Shifting Expanse. (Thundercrack Carnivale 2014.)

0

Magma Embear

Familiar

Guardian of the Ashfall Waste. (Flameforger's Festival 2014.)

0

Cragbacked Bouldursa

Familiar

Guardian of Dragonhome. (Rockbreaker's Ceremony 2014.)

0

Polarfreeze Defender

Familiar

Guardian of the Southern Icefield. (Crystalline Gala 2015.)

0

Murktooth Bramblekeep

Familiar

Guardian of the Tangled Wood. (Trickmurk Circus 2015.)

0

Cloudkeeper Herald

Familiar

Guardian of the Windswept Plateau. (Mistral Jamboree 2015.)

0

Wavebreak Snarler

Familiar

Guardian of the Sea of a Thousand Currents. (Wavecrest Saturnalia 2015.)

0

Timber Tender

Familiar

Guardian of the Viridian Labyrinth. (Greenskeeper Gathering 2015.)

0

Sundial Imposter

Familiar

There's something jarring about this bear...

0

Voltspire Intruder

Familiar

There's something 'not right' about this bear...

0

Lavaborne Hoax

Familiar

There's something unsettling about this bear...

0

Slumbering Charlatan

Familiar

There's something fishy about this bear...

0

Jadecarved Decoy

Familiar

There's something off about this bear...

0

Bogus Manamonger

Familiar

There's something disconcerting about this bear...

0

Smokebillow Sham

Familiar

There's something shady about this bear...

0

Sunsea Pseudo

Familiar

There's something suspect about this bear...

0

Fallbrush Fraud

Familiar

There's something dubious about this bear...

0

━ ✧ Acolytes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Sunbeam Soldier

Familiar

Elemental acolyte of the Lightweaver. (Brightshine Jubilee Holiday Item 2015.)

0

Lightning Lancer

Familiar

Elemental acolyte of the Stormcatcher. (Thundercrack Carnivale Holiday Item 2015.)

0

Molten Marauder

Familiar

Elemental acolyte of the Flamecaller. (Flameforger's Festival Holiday Item 2015.)

0

Stardust Scholar

Familiar

Elemental acolyte of the Arcanist. (Starfall Celebration Holiday Item 2015.)

0

Granite Guardian

Familiar

Elemental acolyte of the Earthshaker. (Rockbreaker's Ceremony Holiday Item 2015.)

0

Cragward Custodian

Familiar

Elemental acolyte of the Icewarden. (Crystalline Gala Holiday Item 2016.)

0

Insubstantial Illusionist

Familiar

Elemental acolyte of the Shadowbinder. (Trickmurk Circus Holiday Item 2016.)

0

Hurricane Herald

Familiar

Elemental acolyte of the Windsinger. (Mistral Jamboree Holiday Item 2016.)

0

Seawater Savior

Familiar

Elemental acolyte of the Tidelord. (Wavecrest Saturnalia Holiday Item 2016.)

0

Sapling Speaker

Familiar

Elemental acolyte of the Gladekeeper. (Greenskeeper Gathering Holiday Item 2016.)

0

━ ✧ Spirits ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Spirit of Light

Familiar

A bright spirit animal that contains the essence of light. (Brightshine Jubilee Holiday Familiar 2017.)

0

Spirit of Lightning

Familiar

A flashing spirit animal that contains the essence of lightning. (Thundercrack Carnivale Holiday Familiar 2017.)

0

Spirit of Fire

Familiar

A burning spirit animal that contains the essence of fire. (Flameforger's Festival Holiday Familiar 2017.)

0

Spirit of the Arcane

Familiar

A magical spirit animal that contains the essence of the arcane. (Starfall Celebration Holiday Familiar 2017.)

0

Spirit of Plague

Familiar

A festering spirit animal that contains the essence of plague. (Riot of Rot Holiday Familiar 2017.)

0

Spirit of Ice

Familiar

A snowy spirit animal that contains the essence of ice. (Crystalline Gala Holiday Familiar 2018.)

0

Spirit of Wind

Familiar

An ephemeral spirit animal that contains the essence of wind. (Mistral Jamboree Holiday Familiar 2018.)

0

Spirit of Water

Familiar

A liquid spirit animal that contains the essence of water. (Wavecrest Saturnalia Holiday Familiar 2018.)

0

Spirit of Nature

Familiar

A lush spirit animal that contains the essence of nature. (Greenskeeper Gathering Holiday Familiar 2018.)

0

━ ✧ Ambassadors ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Voltaic Ambassador

Familiar

The mith are known for their pragmatic speaking style, and will happily hold conversation with you...as long as there isn't a lightbulb on nearby. (Thundercrack Carnivale 2018 Holiday Item)

0

Conflagrant Ambassador

Familiar

Though most manticores lean on sheer, indomitable strength to get them through tough situations, this one has adopted a much more subdued approach. (Flameforger's Festival 2018 Holiday Item)

0

Spellwrought Ambassador

Familiar

While harpies aren't typically prolific spellcasters, many have taken up apprenticeships with neutral dragon clans in the Starfall Isles. (Starfall Celebration 2018 Holiday Item)

0

Contaminated Ambassador

Familiar

Serthis have an excellent natural protection against poisons and toxins, making them natural emissaries to the Scarred Wasteland. (Riot of Rot 2018 Holiday Item)

0

Crystalcourt Ambassador

Familiar

Of those that are granted audience with the Crystalcourt elite, the centaurs are among the few artisans from outside Earth's sway. (Rockbreaker's Ceremony 2018 Holiday Item)

0

Fathomsearch Ambassador

Familiar

The dragons of the water flight have enlisted the help of willing deepwater maren beastclans to aid them in their ongoing search for a lost deity. (Wavecrest Saturnalia 2019 Holiday Item)

0

Gladegift Ambassador

Familiar

Helpful hermits guide dragons through the darkest and twistiest forest paths, and these dryads know them very well. (Greenskeeper Gathering 2019 Holiday Item)

0

━ ✧ Gem Guardians ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Shattered Plain Gem Guardian

Familiar

Protector of Earth's elemental gemstones. (Rockbreaker's Ceremony 2019 Holiday Item)

0

Frigid Gem Guardian

Familiar

Protector of Ice's elemental gemstones. (Crystalline Gala 2020 Holiday Item)

0

Driftwood Gem Guardian

Familiar

Protector of Shadow's elemental gemstones. (Trickmurk Circus 2020 Holiday Item)

0

Zephyr Gem Guardian

Familiar

Protector of Wind's elemental gemstones. (Mistral Jamboree 2020 Holiday Item)

0

Tsunami Gem Guardian

Familiar

Protector of Water's elemental gemstones. (Wavecrest Saturnalia 2020 Holiday Item)

0

━ ✧ Zodiacs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Shining Cancer

Familiar

The stars align, showing a sign of brilliance. (Brightshine Jubilee 2020 Holiday Item)

0

Crackling Leo

Familiar

The stars align, showing a sign of energy. (Thundercrack Carnivale 2020 Holiday Item)

0

Burning Virgo

Familiar

The stars align, showing a sign of fervor. (Flameforger's Festival 2020 Holiday Item)

0

Enchanted Libra

Familiar

The stars align, showing a sign of acumen. (Starfall Celebration 2020 Holiday Item)

0

Spoiling Scorpio

Familiar

The stars align, showing a sign of perseverance. (Riot of Rot 2020 Holiday Item)

0

Wandering Aquarius

Familiar

The stars align, showing signs of fluidity. (Crystalline Gala 2021 Holiday Item)

0

Disappearing Pisces

Familiar

The stars align, showing signs of mystery. (Trickmurk Circus 2021 Holiday Item)

0

Flowing Taurus

Familiar

The stars align, showing signs of curiosity. (Wavecrest Saturnalia 2021 Holiday Item)

0

Sprouting Gemini

Familiar

The stars align, showing signs of growth. (Greenskeeper Gathering 2021 Holiday Item)

0

━ ✧ Statues ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Sandstone Stormcatcher

Familiar

A wired statue, carved by the artisans of the Lightning Flight. (Thundercrack Carnivale 2021 Holiday Item)

0

Porphyry Flamecaller

Familiar

A scalding statue, carved by the artisans of the Fire Flight. (Flameforger's Festival 2021 Holiday Item)

0

Chalcedony Arcanist

Familiar

A bewitched statue, carved by the artisans of the Arcane Flight. (Starfall Celebration 2021 Holiday Item)

0

Cinnabar Plaguebringer

Familiar

A pocked statue, carved by the artisans of the Plague flight. (Riot of Rot 2021 Holiday Item)

0

Granite Earthshaker

Familiar

A chiseled statue, carved by the artisans of the Earth Flight. (Rockbreaker's Ceremony 2021 Holiday Item)

0

Cerussite Icewarden

Familiar

A fractal statue, carved by the artisans of the Ice Flight. (Crystalline Gala 2022 Holiday Item)

0

Agate Shadowbinder

Familiar

A mysterious statue, carved by the artisans of the Shadow Flight. (Trickmurk Circus 2022 Holiday Item)

0

Fluorite Windsinger

Familiar

A spontaneous statue, carved by the artisans of the Wind Flight. (Mistral Jamboree 2022 Holiday Item)

0

Larimar Tidelord

Familiar

A flowing statue, carved by the artisans of the Water Flight. (Wavecrest Saturnalia 2022 Holiday Item)

0

Malachite Gladekeeper

Familiar

A rooted statue, carved by the artisans of the Nature Flight. (Greenskeeper Gathering 2022 Holiday Item)

0

━ ✧ Slinks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Flameback Slink

Familiar

An irritated, but tireless companion that carries flame upon its back. (Flameforger's Festival 2022 holiday item.)

0

Runeback Slink

Familiar

A spacy, but charming companion that carries runes upon its back. (Starfall Celebration 2022 holiday item.)

0

Boilback Slink

Familiar

A vile, but savvy companion that carries boils upon its back. (Riot of Rot 2022 holiday item.)

0