Feybeasts



Feybeasts (魔獣, majuu) are beasts which are able to wield mana. Upon their death the mana within their bodies hardens into feystones. If the feystone is touched in any way, like being hit or scraped by a knife, any body parts still connected to the stone will melt away, making butchering a feybeast for meat work that requires great care.

A bahelm (バッヘルム, Bahherum) looks like a winged cow with several horns on its head, from which one of the horns was long and sharp like a unicorn's horn and two other ones were big, long and sprawling like an elk's horns. The legs look muscular with sharp claws protruding from its paws reminding like a tiger or lion.

A bataffe (バートアッフェ, Baatoaffe) is a weak monkey-like feybeast that is able to swim. They are usually encountered in groups of around thirty and make shrieking noises "Scree! Scree!". To intimidate their opponents they can show their teeth.

An eiderot (アイデロート, Aiderooto) is a feybeast that looks like a giant salamander and a frill-necked lizard combined together. It can spit fire by opening its mouth

An eifinte (アイフィント, Aifinto) is a treeborn and nimble feybeast that is described as a squirrel the size of a cat with two horns protruding from its head.

A fetze (フェルツェ, Ferutse) emerges after a zantze grows and evolves.

A goltze (ゴルツェ, Gorutse) is a strong feybeast and the last evolution stage of a zantze. It is much taller than a zantze, reaching heights of a two-story-tall building.

A Grun (グリュン, Guryun) is a feybeast that has a shape similar to Earth's red panda, but with a bony torso and a striped pelt of black and dark-green hues.

They generally have vicious tempers, but become particularly dangerous in the spring, when they emerge hungry and irritate from their nests after raising their young. It is also expected to encounter Gruns in pairs during that season, since they tend to stay close to their partners.

Gruns are capable of releasing a strong and foul odor from their mouth that Rozemyne compared to that of Miso. It is intense enough that some nobles are nearly incapacitated from being exposed to it, though those who had experienced the stench of Ehrenfest's lower city prior to it's remodeling appear to be barely affected, if at all.

Gruns are capable of exceptionally fast movement and can charge their targets with a speed too fast for unenhanced Human eyes to follow the movement.

Many nobles compare the appearance Rozemyne's highbeast Lessy with that of Gruns, but she vehemently denies this comparison since they are "not cute at all".

Kieferdeckes (キーファデックス, Kiifadekkusu) are a species of feybeast native to Haldenzel. They are among the weaker feybeasts, but life in large groups and scatter upon spotting a predator, which makes them hard to exterminate. They lay their eggs from late spring and throughout the entire summer and can cause great damage to the harvest if not dealt with.

Riesefalkes (リーズファルケ, Riizufaruke) are large, fierce birds of prey with sharp claws that nest in the caves of Mount Lohenberg in the province of Griebel. There they lay their eggs into the natural hotsprings, where they absorb the surrounding fire mana to grow. While the mother-bird does not breed the eggs, it will still stay close most of the time and only leave for short periods to hunt for food. If one wishes to steal eggs without wanting to confront the mother, one needs to wait for this short window.

Their eggs are valuable materials with a large mana capacity and purity in fire mana, but taking too many without replacing them with some other means to absorb the mana, like empty feystones, will allow too much mana to gather, which angers the God of Fire Leidenschaft and might lead to the volcano erupting. If a mana-wielder dyes a riesefalke egg with their mana, it will turn into a feystone.

Schneefelds look like small Hippos made up of rock. They are relatively docile and have resilient hides, making them popular candidates as treasure beasts for treasure-stealing ditter.

A schnesturm (シュネティルム, Shunetirumu) is a feybeast resembling a white sabertooth. It is a winter feybeast and a possible Lord of Winter.

A shumil (シュミル, Shumiru) is a weak feybeast looking like a rabbit. see Shumil

A spinne (シュピンネ, Shupinne) is a feybeast whose thread is an expensive sturdy material. The thread is not easy to handle.

A talfrosch (タルクロッシュ, Tarukurosshu) is a toad-like feybeast of varying size. They eat each other to grow and split again into multiple smaller specimens when injured sufficiently. Only when they have split into their smallest size can the individual small toads be killed. It has a stretchy and springy tongue to grab foes from a distance to be swallowed whole. At their largest they are able to swallow a Human on a hose-sized highbeast whole.

They are generally seen as merely a nuisance rather than a true threat, since they never wander into habitat areas and are easily dealt with by trained knights. They are loathed due to their gross appearance however, particularly by female knights.

One of the places were talfroschs can be found is the Goddess' Bath near Fontedorf in central district of Ehrenfest.

A warf (ボルフェ, Borufe) is used in the game of warf. When struck, it curls up comparable to an armadillo or a pill bug. Their hides are very tough and can easily withstand a large amount of blunt force.

A zantze (ザンツェ, Zantse) is a cat-like feybeast which is about knee-high and not particularly strong. It evolves through absorbing mana, by eating ruelles or other feybeasts. The next evolution is called fetze.

Spoiler for Part 4 Volume 6 Ternisbefallen

A ternisbefallen is a feybeast that is similar in appearance to a dog in appearance, except that it has several eyes on it's fore-head in addition to the pair in the same position as a regular dog's. It's eyes are usually red, but will change to a rainbow of colours when it attacks and the fur is black. Much like a trombe it absorbs mana to grow stronger and can only be reliably defeated with weapons that have the God of Darknesses blessing applied to them. Any other mana-based attack will only make the beast more powerful and bigger. The size of the beast also depends on how much mana it has. The start off at the size of a regular dog's puppies and unless supplied with unusually large amounts of mana will grow to the height where it's head is level with an adult Human over the course of about six years.

It is constantly salivating and everything touched by it's saliva is drained of it's mana and turned into black sludge, leaving the land behind drained and barren for a long time unless healed, much like a tombe. And much like the feyplant a Ternisbefallen is conisdered a serious enough threat that it falls solely to the Knight's Orders to hunt them down, except that the beast being mobile makes it an even greater threat a tombe, which is locked in place.

The creature is native to the territory of the duchy Werkerstock.

see Lord of Winter


 * Cambridge Online Dictionary