| PRICKLY FRUIT | A bright green fruit that grows high in the jungle trees and has soft, prickly hairs on the outside similar to a cactus. When ripe, the fruit is bright red on the inside and quite juicy. A favourite food of Skyplumes and Limbrunners. |
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| SWEETLEAVES | A deep green leaf with frilly outer edge touched with red. It drips of a sweet, honey-like substance and acts as a calming agent. Sweetleaves grow profusely where the sun breaks through the jungle canopy along the river or chasm. The leaves are often steeped in herbal potions and remedies or in tea. Can also be used as a mild aphrodesiac. |
| ITCHY MOSS | A soft green and brown moss that grows on some trees in the deeper jungle paths. Contact can make one's skin noticeably redder and itchy. Its effects are harmless but can be quite irritating. Although the moss can be used to speed the healing of bruises, most Cat Elves would rather have the bruise than the itch. |
| STINK PLANT | You got it: it stinks. Pranksters have tons of fun with it. It also has another use - when ground and added to yellowroot leaves, it makes a great bug deterrent with little odor at all. It has long broad leaves that surround a central white flower. Grows in damp places outside of direct sunlight. |
| ESOR BLOOM | A bright flower, pink and red, with large exotic blooms. Used as a very popular food spice. It's also great for tummy aches. Esor bloom grows in large clumps in the shade at the foot of jungle trees. Very easy to find. |
| YELLOWROOT | This fat, meaty, edible root is a major source of food (when found) for jungle dwellers. The plant is small and inconspicuous which grows in the dense jungles, and is difficult to find in the wild. Yellowroot leaves can be mixed with stink plant to produce a very effective bug repellent. Bristle boars like to dig up the roots and eat them. |
| SPICEROOT | The foliage of the spiceroot blends well with that of the jungle in which the root grows. This bulbous, woody root is ground into powder and used in cooking in small amounts to make a kind of gingery taste. Tinctures of the root eases coughing when the paste is spread across the chest and throat. The dried and sliced root reduces fever when drunk as a tea |
| SWEETSTICKS | These are tall hollow reeds which are popular for their sweet juice. Elves harvest the juice by chewing or pounding the stalks. The stalks are built of tough fibers from which the elves weave baskets, and the hollow reeds are used as snorkels. Sweetsticks grow in moist, sunny, low-lying areas. |
| GOLDENSWEET | This large, round golden fruit is highly prized by all in the jungle. Each fruit is large enough to feed several elves. It grows on small trees in the more heavily overgrown areas. |
| WHISTLING LEAVES | This exotic plant gets its name from the holes in the leaves which make a whistling sound when the wind blows across its surface. The plant is normally found in the marshier areas of the jungle and savannah, and is fairly rare. Cat Elves skilled in healing or plant lore can prepare the plant as a diuretic to purge disease from the body. |
| ORANGEROOT | A bland root of a small bush like plant it closely resembles the yam or sweet potatoe. It is most often found along the river not less than 15' from the banks. The root can be baked and then sliced or made into a mash paste and mixed with other things to make a tortilla like flat bread. |
| YELLOWFRUIT | A large yellow globe of fruit, nearly twice the size of the Sunfruit in Sorrow's End and ranging in flavor from sweet to sour. The fruits, however, are much like the sunfruit in that they have lobes of meat that may be peeled apart in sections. They are also very juicy, being one of the messier fruits to eat, but one of the more enjoyed. |
| BRISTLEBOARS | Similar to Earth's peccaries, these wild pigs live in the hills around Sorrow's End and in other wilder sections of the continent. They are hunted by most predators, including elves, and can sometimes turn on their pursuers and do significant damage with their powerful tusks. The main meat source for the elves of Sorrow's End, they are also very common around certain areas of the jungle. |
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| BLOODWORMS | These are essentially gigantic leeches, about 6 feet in length. They live underwater but can crawl on land for short distances. They will only leave water in moist environments (such as swamps). They can be found mainly in the swampy areas of the southern savannah along the jungle's edge. They do not live in the great river as the water moves along much too quickly. |
| CROCODILIANS | These large saurians live in swamps and rivers in the southern tropics. They are active predators and eat mainly fish, snakes, and any hapless creatures unfortunate enough to drink from their water. They are not social animals but are often found in large numbers. They are fastest in water, being more likely to attack if a victim is in the water or close to the edge on the shore. Moderately large crocodilians are about 3 yards long. They are not common throughout all parts of the jungle. |
| FINBACKS | These monsters are leftovers from the equivalent of dinosaurs on Two Moons. They are found in equatorial lands, and sometimes in swamps in more temperate regions. In Book Two, Skywise sees one while hunting for whistling leaves for Cutter. They are herbivores and band together in large numbers in the southern swamps; fin-backs in more temperate regions are likely to be rogue males. These creatures are large enough that they are often avoided rather than hunted, although their eggs or young might be considered delicacies by various tribes. |
| FIREPLUMES/ SKYPLUMES |
Brightly feathered birds of the macaw-type parrot family. They are distinguished by their plumage, tending to mostly red or blue in coloration. Fireplumes, the primarily red variety, can be found throughout the jungle, while skyplumes, in their often vivid blues, are more common in the western reaches near the Teeth. Fireplumes exist primarily on nuts that they gather, using their powerful beaks to crush the shells. Skyplumes exist mainly on jungle fruits. They are not favoured as a food source although elves will gather their discarded feathers to be worked into hair or clothing. |
| FLUTTERBUGS | Butterflies. Fuzzybugs or fuzzycrawlers or caterpillars. |
| LIMBRUNNERS | Chimps. |
| LONGTAILS | Longtailed monkeys. |
| LONGTOOTHS | These are big cats that closely resemble sabre-toothed tigers, common to the southern area in general. Solitary, most live along the eastern savannah and into the badlands, but the odd longtooth has been spotted hunting in the jungle. Longtooths hunt mainly by ambush, relying on powerful jaws and limbs and sheer ferocity to overcome their prey. Sometimes they hunt in groups and have been noted for some intelligence. They are natural enemies of jungle panthers and will attack such on sight. Prized for their thickly furred hides and sharp claws, longtooths have been hunted by Cat Elves many times in the past. Even so, southern hunters only approach the dangerous cats in large parties. |
| SNAKES | These gigantic constrictors live in jungles and rain forests. Some are water snakes, some live and hunt in trees, and some are ground dwellers. Constrictors about 8 yards long are potential elf eaters. We have many varieties of snakes. Some are or will be listed here as they are given names and attributes, others may remain nameless. We do have some of these constrictors in the Forevergreen, though they aren't extremely common. Poisonous snakes that are much smaller can be deadly. There are some anti-toxins available from the tribal herbalists that can counteract the effects of many of these snakes. |
| SPIDERS | There are thousands of types of spiders. The giant variety should be rare and expected to live in whatever areas might be likely to favor such creatures. They hunt by spreading their webs over likely areas; when prey runs under the web, the spider races to the spot and spews more webbing over it. The spider may drape its web over trail or silently wall off a clearing where elves or humans are camping. Spider webbing is not flammable though heat will shrivel it. Poisonous spiders that are extremely tiny are common in the Jungle, as are the larger kinds. There are a few of the giant spiders around, but not in territory frequented by Cat Elves. |
| SQUAWKERS | Plain green birds of a smaller type than most found within the jungles. They are called so for the horrid squawking noise that they make. Their unique signature tends to attract the attentions of hungry predators and irritated Cat Elves. As a consequence, they are not very common in most areas of the jungle and can usually be found near the savannah's edge. |
| SWORDFEET | These fast, bipedal, pack-running dinosaurs are about 8 feet from snout to the tip of their balancing tail. They are clever and vicious predators, and quite intelligent for dinosaurs. In attacking, they will grasp their prey with their forelegs and slash enthusiastically with their scimitar-like hindclaws.
Swordfeet feed on anything that won't eat them first. Like the fin-backs, they primarily live in the hotter equatorial regions, and have little reason to enter the temperate zones. Cat Elves and other jungle dwellers are the most likely tribes to encounter these creatures. They always attack on the run, using their forelegs to grasp a target. If they miss, they continue on and turn to make another pass. If they hit, they hold on and bite, then slash their prey with their hind claws. When the prey is dead, they will immediately carry it off if it is small enough to hold and run with. Otherwise, they will drop the prey and attack another target in the immediate area, continuing until nothing but swordfeet are left alive. Then, the pack eats. |
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