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== Other Creatures ==

Wild but friendly '''blink dogs''' are known as the Traveler’s Friends. These fey canines resist all efforts at taming, but have been known to come to the aid of lost travelers, fighting off dangerous animals and leading the lost ones to safety. They are said to be the particular friends of halflings, and hurting a blink dog is a good way to find yourself exiled or worse.

Although blink dogs are benign, and occasionally helpful to travelers, the '''snarlyow''' is a different story. Appearing similar to a large and powerful blink dog, snarlyows are savage and vicious, exhibiting a sort of feline playfulness with their prey. They are capable of "blinking" like their more benevolent cousins, and can also disappear entirely. They are said by some to be cursed blink dogs.

In many ways the blink dogs’ opposite, the dangerous '''black shuck''' is a spectral black hound with glowing eyes, said to be a sign of woe and ill omen. They haunt highways and fields, often appearing beneath the full moon, and are known to chase travelers for miles. Misfortune always follows the sighting of a black shuck.

One final canine is the '''coin sith,''' or fey hound. Pale gray or charcoal-colored beasts, they resemble sleek hunting hounds of unusual size and are said to be the hunting-beasts of the Fair Folk. The eyes and teeth of coin sith emit an eerie green glow in the night, a terrifying sight. They can grow to enormous size, but mostly avoid mortals.

'''Tailypo''' is the name of a frightful beast resembling an enormous, fiendish squirrel with a long, luxuriant tail. Tailypos are mischievous and curious, but possessed of an incredible capacity for vengeance; if a mortal somehow offends a tailypo, the beast will track and torment them to the end of their days.
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Ghosts and spirits of all sorts are known as '''haunts,''' ranging from harmless but frightening apparitions that linger at the site of their death, to malicious and powerful wraiths, the remnants of ancient warlords and cruel wizards. In many cases they can be laid to rest by discovering and completing whatever business holds them in the mortal world.

'''Bogeys''' are wild fey creatures and servants of more powerful fey. They somewhat resemble feral goblins, with enormous ears and catlike eyes. Legend holds that they are what becomes of children taken by the fey, though the bogeys themselves either do not know or do not choose to share. Bogeys are most often found in service to greater fey; they are not necessarily evil, but they are mischievous and unpredictable.

A variety of shaggy humanoid creatures half-seen in the forests are known collectively as '''wood boogers.''' What these creatures are remains unknown - or even if they are all the same species of being - and theories range from feral wildmen to sinister fey to manifestations of the forest's anger at intruders. Wood boogers may be shy or aggressive.