What Kind of Flora & Fauna Would You Like to See

[Dragon 673]

My site exists in an Alt Universe where earth has always been openly inhabited by the supernatural. They exist openly among humans - most of them do anyway. I've been building an NPC sort of bestiary to give people an idea of the various beasties they can use to enhance their threads and plots. 

 

Some of the fauna on the list are the leucrota - weird hybrid hyena-horse-wolf kind of thing. Griffins exist, phoenixes, wendigo, valravens etc. 

 

Flora wise we've got things like mandrake and Peridexion, which is a kind of tree that repels dragons because it smells awful to them and is pretty toxic but it attracts doves and other birds heavily because they like the fruit. 

 

So in that kind of vein, what sort of things would you like to encounter as a player? 

[CovertSphinx 710]

I haven't really been up on my game for creating flora, but for "wild fauna", I have two creatures I made specifically for my Urban/Hidden Fantasy site. 

One of them is a shadowy-cat-like creature that steals/hordes shiny things....often bringing bad luck with them even though they are mostly harmless. 

The other is a monster that causes nightmares and feeds on the negative energy produced by them - inducing severe depression and other disorders in their victims (they basically choose one person to leech from and hang around for days* until either cleansed or the host dies) [*Days could be weeks, or years, depending on the host]

[ReDRidingHood 30]

First let me hop in to say I'm always thrilled when someone knows what a leucrota is. (I played a corcotta on an RPG back in the day!)

 

LoreFolk features Jackalopes as some local fauna. We use their breeding season as a catalyst for events around Easter time (because antalope-horned rabbits might as well lay colorful eggs).

 

In terms of Fauna i'm partial to pulling things from folklore & fairytales. We're also doing a plot around the Fern Flower that blooms on the Summer Solstice and whoever finds it wins a Miracle. It's supposed to be the big tourist draw that brings folk in to the city. 

 

I love this kind of stuff!