monsters

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THE MONSTERS

To suggest monsters for The Library to have manifested, please remember that monsters cannot be characters that could be applied for. They should be a race or breed that exists within a canon with about the intelligence of a beast. Certain allowances will be made, but mods may have to ask for more information before allowing a monster to be present within The Library.

Celtic mythology

Dullahan Appearance: A man in dark armor, with a sword at his side, and carrying a whip made out of a human's spine, carrying his head under one arm and riding a great horse. Sometimes they drive a wagon made out of bones. Demeanor: When the Dullahan stops riding, someone is about to die, when they call that person's name all but the strongest fall over dead. They have been known to throw blood in the eyes of those who see them about their business. Powers: Power over life and death. wiki page

Dragon Quest series

Slimes Appearance: Usually small and look like a drop of blue liquid. They have an iconic human-style face that is usually smiling. Demeanor: Easy going. None within TL can talk. Powers: Living liquidish thing. wiki page

Final Fantasy Series

Cactuar Appearance: A small cactus with a humanoid shape, it moves very stiffly, but is a lot quicker than it looks Demeanor: Generally quiet, the Cactuar will try to run away before fighting. But be careful, if cornered it can be very vicious. Powers: Extremely fast. Capable of "1000 needles" attack, which launches a barrage of needles at the target, doing massive amounts of damage wiki page

Tonberry Appearance: A child-sized lizard wearing a brown robe and carrying a lantern and a small knife Demeanor: It seems non-threatening, and even pretty cute as it slowly makes its way toward you. And then you realize, that knife is really sharp. But it's too late now, the Tonberry is after you. If you try to attack it, expect a karmic retribution. Powers: Grave injuries and death wiki page

Malboro Appearance: A huge round head consisting almost entirely of a large mouth covered with small tentacles and eyestalks, it uses a larger mass of tentacles to move around. Demeanor: Always hungry, the Malboro will attempt to sneak up on its prey and incapacitate them with its poisonous breath Powers: Bad Breath; an attack that induces, among other things, continuous damage, blindness, paralysis, extreme confusion, petrification, and an extreme berserk state. wiki page

Greek Mythology

Harpy Appearance: A huge bird with the chest and body of a lovely woman Demeanor: Far from their lovely appearance, harpies are vicious monsters that enjoy stealing food and fouling what they can't steal. Powers: Flight and a razor sharp wit. wiki page

Nemean Lion Appearance: A larger than average lion with a very thick mane and razor sharp teeth and claws Demeanor: A fierce fighter, and well feared for killing and carrying off livestock and people alike. Powers: The hide of the Nemean Lion is impervious to all manner of stabbing and cutting weapons. wiki page

Minotaur Appearance: The offspring of a beautiful woman and a massive bull (don't ask, Greeks are kind of weird) this creature presents as the larger and more bestial halves of his shared ancestry. Demeanor: Strong, territorial, perpetually angry, and with an extremely volatile temper, it's best not to cross into the Minotaur's territory. Powers: Strong like bull. wiki page

Pegasus Appearance: A beautiful horse with snow white wings Demeanor: Pegasus is not vicious really, but it is very wild and hard to tame, known to dump an unworthy rider that insists on trying to ride him anyway. Powers: Flight. wiki page

Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect

Dinosaur, Compstegnathus Appearance: It's body looks similar to that of the Compsoganathus, a small theropod carnivore, but it's much larger. It has spikes on hit's back and tail somewhat similar to a stegosaurus, and colorization of that of an african tree frog. It has a projectile spit and a lashing tongue filled with a paralyzing poison. Demeanor: Combine speed, aggression and a piranha like appetite and you have this beast. Powers: Frog like lashing poison tongue, spiked tail and wicked set of jaws make this beast a monster. I'd make it smaller than what it says on the Wiki. About the size of a Deinohnychus would be just fine. wiki page

Tanaconda Appearance: It's an anaconda with claws. 18 feet long, it is able to constrict large prey as well as grasp branches for better maneuverability. It's colorization is red, yellow and black. Demeanor: As if it's any surprise, these dinos were created to be mean and cruel little monsters. Or big. In this case, big. Powers: Claws, teeth and constricting body. wiki page

Deinohnycanis Appearance: A fair mix of a Dire Wolf and Deinonychus. It sports fur like feathers on it's felt rather than scales but probably shouldn't go around petting this thing. It's partially bipedal, with a long gait. Like a deinohnychus it has the familiar dino head and those sickle like hind claws. Demeanor: They're aggressive hunters, much like wolves and raptors are, but they are capable of being trained at a young age. Powers: Big teeth but diminished fore claws. wiki page

Dinosaur, Pachysaurolophus Appearance: Like a cross between a pachycephalasaurus and a parasaurolophus. A large duck bill type dinosaur with a hard head and a razor sharp crest. Demeanor: Pretty much like a overgrown aggressive mountain goat that weighs a ton. Just stay out of it's way. At least it won't eat you. Powers: Size and an attitude along with it's crest might make dealing with it fairly cumbersome. wiki page

Dinosaur, Raptor Alpha Appearance: An enhanced Deinohnychus which has coloring better suited to operations in the dead of night. Smarter and deadlier as well. Demeanor: Cunning pack hunters. They have no qualms about hunting humans either. Powers: Your basic dinosaur fare. Fast, slick hunters. Ambush tactics and pack hunting are their specialties. wiki page

Half-Life

Antlion Appearance: Antlions are large insect like creatures that burrow under the sand and in caves. Much like an ant their appearance varies between their class and types. Soldiers are angular and dangerous with claws and mandibles. Guards are huge monstrosities that use it's huge head to crush their enemies after a charge. Workers are subterranean and pale, but have chemical shots that they can burn enemies with as they guard the brood. Demeanor: They're very territorial and will fight off or prey on anything that comes into their territory. Powers: Depends on the type. Workers have Chemical/poison shots they can shoot from a ranged distance. Soldiers attack with their front legs and mandibles, and they can fly. Guards and guardians attack with sheer blunt force and grubs do very little. wiki page

Barnacle Appearance: Looks like a large worm attached to a ceiling. It lowers it's sticky tongue down to it to pull prey up and swallow it whole. Sometimes they hang around in clusters to share prey or have a second opinion on whether or not something constitutes as prey. The only way they have to sense is by tasting something with their mouths. Demeanor: They not to more menacing than any other mindless animal that works only to eat. If you're not food it will spit it out. Unarmed prey is best. Powers: They have a sticky rope like appendage that wraps around it's prey and pulls it back up so it can swallow it, usually in one bite, stretching it and dissolving it in strong stomach acids that fall out when it's killed. wiki page

Headcrabs and Zombies Appearance: Four legged masses of flesh with beaks inside of their bodies to latch onto the victim's face with. Zombies are he human hosts which are controlled by the headcrab, and like zombies they vary based on type. Normal headcrabs produce normal zombies and they're fat little critters who waddle around on their hind legs with their front legs up and armed usually. With that posture they can better pounce on their targets. Fast and poison headcrabs are sleeker models of the normal, with fast skittering around and usually hard to hit. Poison headcrabs have armor, which make them difficult to kill as well. Demeanor: Headcrabs will pursue any targets they deem as suitable hosts but they are almost entirely attracted to human hosts and humanoid like hosts. The combine have programmed them to be attracted to humans as hosts. Zombies are mindless killing machines and will attack unprovoked by may not be aware of your presence until they see or hear you. Powers: All headcrabs once attached to a host's head will make them into mindless puppets. Normal headcrabs simply make a normal zombie, fast make fast zombies, and poison crabs will make a poison zombies which attract other poison headcrabs onto the same host. wiki page

Harry Potter

Dragon, Common Welsh Green Appearance: 18ft in length, western-style, winged dragons with green hues. Demeanor: Mild. It prefers to prey mainly on sheep and other small mammals and to avoid human contact altogether. Powers: Breathes fire. wiki page

Dragon, Chinese Fireball Appearance: 25ft in length, Drake/Wyvern-style dragons with three toed claws on their wing joint. They are generally scarlet and smooth scaled with a fringe of golden spikes around its face. Demeanor: More tolerant of other dragons than of humans. Reported to be very fast and clever. Powers: Emits mushroom-shaped flame from its nostrils when angered. wiki page

Dragon, Hungarian Horntail Appearance: 50ft in length, wyvern-style dragon. It has black scales, a spiked tail, and bronze horns protruding from its head. It has yellow eyes with vertical pupils. Demeanor: Known for being one of the most vicious breeds of dragon in its canon. It's also quite swift in the air. Powers: Can breathe a very far reaching flame. The Horntails breath can reach extremely high temperatures as it made a stone turn red hot in seconds. wiki page

Grindylow Appearance: Green four legged aquatic creature, they look rather alien Demeanor: Very territorial, they will attack if you come too close to them and attempt to drown you. Powers: Underwater breathing. wiki page

Thestral Appearance: winged horses with a skeletal body, face with reptilian features, and wide, leathery wings that resemble a bat's Demeanor: Considered dangerous, but can be tamed and used as mounts Powers: Flight. Can only be seen by people who have seen someone die. wiki page

Lord of the Rings

Warg Appearance: 5ft at the shoulder, they could be up to ten feet in length from snout to the tail. They have a bearlike face with a long muzzle full of huge fangs and a long, prehensile neck; its eyes were small and set back to each side of its head, its ears at the back of the skull. Demeanor: Intelligent and violent, they were bred to be mounts and vicious ones at that. Powers: None. wiki page

Stone giants Appearance: Massive humanoid creatures made out of stone. The stone giants are said to be able to reach heights as tall as forty feet high. Demeanor: Mild until you kill one of them, then they all come for you. Otherwise they are slow and rather dimwitted. Powers: Made of stone. wiki page

Legend of Zelda series

Like-Like Appearance: A large tube shaped fleshy creature, yellow-ish brown in color, with a large 'mouth' at the top. Demeanor: Likes to follow people, swallow them down and strips a magical item from them, and then spits the person them back out. Kill them quick if you want to get it back. Powers: Swallows and eats magical items. No one's sure why. wiki page

Armos Appearance: A large statue that appears to be wearing a suit of armor, carrying a sword and shield. Demeanor: They stay still as statues, but if you touch them then they come to life and attack, or sometimes just walk around. Powers: Statues that come to life. wiki page

Octorok Appearance: A large purple octopus that pops up out of the water and shoots rocks with it's mouth. Demeanor: Territorial, the Octorok swallows large rocks which it then spits at anyone or anything that come into its area. Powers: It will rock you. wiki page

Tremors

Graboid Appearance: Large subterranean creatures that resemble grubs or worms. Their heads consist of a massive, black, armored beak, which is used to push aside the dirt whilst digging. The beak opens up like a grotesque flower; it consists of a wide upper jaw, a thinner lower jaw, and a pair of hooked mandibles on either side. Lacking eyes, they hunt by sound, using their long ten foot trio of hissing prehensile serpent like tentacle tongues. These are often mistaken for the creature itself leading to people to underestimate their opponents. Demeanor: Ravenous predators and indiscriminate eaters. If you walk and talk and make plenty of noise, you're on the menu. Powers: Burrowing underground at speeds capable of keeping up with a truck. Strong tentacle graspers and jaws make it a formidable foe. wiki page

Shriekers Appearance: Bipedal with an identical head to the Graboid except for the infrared detector on their foreheads. They're also just under 1/6th the size of a graboid depending on how many a graboid spawns. From 3-6 per brood. Demeanor: Like their parent they are ravenous and indeterminate eaters, but nolonger rely on sound to hunt nearly as much as their parents. They're after your warm meat, son. Powers: Sparp beaks, hunger, and an infrared detractor on their heads allow them to zero in on warm prey. image

Assblaster Appearance: A more slender version of the Shrieker with longer and thinner features. The big difference with this version is that it carries with it a developing egg and fins and wings to use in gliding. It also produces a highly explosive chemical in two parts that it uses to jet off. Similar to the function of the bombardier beetle. Demeanor: No change to demeanor from the shrieker. Demeanor: No change to demeanor from the shrieker. Powers: Everything the Shrieker can do except that it can fly and fry with the chemicals that come out of it's ass. image

Xanth series

Nicklepede Appearance: Similar to centipedes, but are five times larger and much more dangerous. Demeanor: Very dangerous, not unlike hungry piranha. They prefer living in the shadows and are often found within crevices of trenches and chasms. Powers: Their pincers are deadly, able to gourge out inch-wide disks of flesh from anything it attacks. wiki page

Pooka Appearance: shaggy, wild-looking ghost-horses, usually dark colors. Demeanor: Usually peaceful, they can be just as mischievous as real horses. Powers: Ghostly. Can be kept solid by wrapping them in chains. wiki page

Stone Dove Appearance: When nesting, they look like stones, but this is only a camouflage, they are not actually made of stone. Demeanor: Easily frightened, but fairly harmless. Can be tamed. Powers: Look like stone. wiki page

Wild Oats Appearance: Look just like normal oats. Demeanor: Hyperactive and stubborn. They will fight being harvested. Powers: Can use their stems to attach whomever is pulling them. If the seeds are culled from the stem, sown by the full moon, then watered with a person's own urine, they can manifest an oat nymph bound to the person who fertilized the seeds. wiki page

Will-o'-the-Wisp Appearance: A light. Demeanor: Mischievous, it likes to lead people deep into the wilderness and then disappear, leaving the person completely lost. Powers: Can be semi-hypnotizing. wiki page

Wingcow Appearance: Winged cow. Demeanor: Rather dim, they like to eat leaves from the treetops, barring that, they like to eat pages from books on high shelves. Powers: Flight. wiki page

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Monster Race/Breed:Big Foot
Series: North American folklore.
Appearance:Eight foot tall ape man covered in thick matted fur from head to toe. The missing link?
Demeanor: Shy and elusive, but will usually calmly walk away when it encounters people unless it is confronted.
Powers: Sufficiently stronger than a human. Comparable to a male Orangutan, which could easily snap a human like a twig. At least stronger than that proportionate to it's size.
Wiki/Picture: link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot)

Monster Race/Breed: Jersey Devil
Series: North American Mythology
Appearance: The body of a horse, the tail of a snake (bisected/spear tip) and bat like wings. It has glowing red eyes and sharp deadly teeth. It's front hands are webbed.
Demeanor: This is an aggressive beast, it's call is like a banshee, shrill and ear splitting if close enough. It can tear you to shreds with sharp hooves, claws and teeth.


Powers: It can fly with it's wings naturally. Claws and teeth and a whip like tail.
Wiki/Picture: link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil) link (http://bee-chan.deviantart.com/art/Jersey-Devil-Leed-s-Devil-142123261)

[sandwormie]

Monster Race/Breed: Beggar's Canyon Womp Rat
Series: Star Wars
Appearance: Take a capybara, make it six feet from snout to rump, give it mange, clawed feet, more of a snout, and a scabby tail.
Demeanor: It's possible to domesticate them, but mostly they're dangerous pests. They usually travel in packs of up to 20 so that they can overwhelm and kill larger animals. Scavengers and hunters, very persistent and stubborn - even killing one won't make it release its bite.
Powers: They can eat damn near anything and chew through most things, don't need much water, have viciously powerful jaws, and are highly prolific, whelping as many as eight at a time. They're edible but strong tasting.
Wiki/Picture: Here

Monster: Lesser Dewback
Series: Star Wars
Appearance: Horse-tall rhinolike lizard with its legs held under its body, possessing thick pebbled scales in green, brown, red, gray, or rarely blue.
Demeanor: Mild, gentle most of the time. They're fairly easy to domesticate and coax into carrying things even as adults, though raising one from an egg or a pup is best. Larger predators or ones they've learned to fear can spook them; they will either run or bite and trample to good effect.
Powers: They're strong, omnivorous, sturdy, can briefly run very fast, can go with little water, and have a good sense of smell. Also very edible. Sluggish in the cold.
Wiki: Here.

Monster Race/Breed: Sketto
Series: Star Wars
Appearance: A cross between a dragonfly and a deep-sea fish, the kind with a long body and huge teeth, with some lizard thrown in. Around a foot long counting the tail.
Demeanor: Most of the time they sleep upside down in enclosed dark spaces. At night they take wing, sometimes in swarms, and eat insects and tiny animals. They also land and pierce the skins of larger, usually-sleeping animals with their long thin teeth in order to lap up the blood. If you're awake, moving, and not going after their young, they usually won't bother you.
Powers: They fly loudly and walk slowly but much more quietly, see well in low light, possess very sharp teeth, and have numbing anticoagulant saliva that prevents quick clotting.
Wiki/Picture: Here.

Monster Race/Breed: Scurriers
Series: Star Wars
Appearance: Sort of a kangaroo-lizard-rodent with gazelle horns. Bipedal, usually move by hopping. A couple feet long counting the tail.
Demeanor: Omnivores that tend to scavenge for food and nesting material. Scurriers may travel in packs of as many as thirty. They tunnel, get into everything, and scatter when threatened, though they bite if cornered.
Powers: Prolific. The bite hurts and can cause disease sometimes but is nothing special. Have a serious tendency to pick apart machinery, though. Edible.
Wiki/Picture: Here

Monster Race/Breed: Jakrab
Series: Star Wars
Appearance: Strung-out, mostly hairless greyhound-jackrabbit creatures
Demeanor: Very swift, inquisitive, tend to charge through. They're flightly herbivores and not dangerous unless well cornered. Tend to stick to loose herds and signal each other with their ears.
Powers: Fast and prolific. Very lean meat.
Wiki/Picture: Here

Monster Race/Breed: Canyon krayt dragon.
Series: Star Wars
Appearance: A dragonlike monitor lizard with a study head, cranial horns, ridges on its spine, thick scales in yellow-brown, tan, black, or green, and a spiked tail.
Also? Big. Big big big big big. Oh god. They can get a good ninety feet long.
Demeanor: Much smaller than greater krayt dragons, canyon krayts den in tight spaces like caves and canyons. They mostly sleep and rarely need to eat, and usually go for whatever's ventured too close to their den, though they'll go out looking if they have to. Any animal that is not another krayt dragon is prospective food.

Individuals have had baby ones as pets, but don't expect a loyal companion. A well-tended krayt might tolerate and not eat you, but it associates your species with food now, so if it's not kept confined...
Powers: It's said that krayts are descended from the Star Dragons. Certainly they have a suite of abilities which seems to be cheating.

They're far quieter on the hunt than they should be, and have massively thick, essentially impervious scales. To stun prey some let loose a roar that seems to reverberate through the body of a listener; it's very hard not to run or freeze. Others have envenomed teeth or spines. They're all fierce and powerful.

They can be killed by shooting or driving something through their sinus cavities or soft palate and into their brains, which is possible when their mouths are open or they're facing you head on. Otherwise you basically need mines or heavy artillery - these are the Death Stars of Tatooine's wildlife. Canny older ones may keep their heads clear of humanoid prey while it's alive, trampling or attacking with their tails.

They digest prey with the help of gizzard stones, which eventually become dragon pearls. These are useful. Krayts are edible, but butchering them is intensely difficult.
Wiki/Picture: DO NOT BE HERE