Oriens

Codex

What every creature is built from. Bloodlines, body plans, elements, and the raw stats behind a fight.

Bloodlines

Draconic 17 species

Look Scaled, horned silhouette with a spined ridge and folded wings; molten-ember or jewel-sapphire hide; hard glossy overlapping plates catching warm glints.

Known species

Basilisk Black Dragon Bone Drake Chimera Cinderdrake Emberwyrm Feathered Serpent Frost Wyrm Hydra Kobold Night Dragon Red Dragon Sea Serpent Storm Dragon White Dragon Wyvern Zephyrwyrm

Often becomes Skirmisher, Duelist, Inquisitor, Stoic

Found in Cinderreach, Hollowtide, the Academy, the Riven Wastes

Fey 11 species

Look Slender, graceful frame traced with leaf, petal, and antler motifs; luminous spring-green and blossom-violet palette; soft dew-bright, translucent textures.

Known species

Banshee Bogwitch Dark Elf Elf Gnome Half-elf Lamia Pixie Satyr Shadow Fiend Unicorn

Often becomes Mage, Duelist, Tactician, Skirmisher

Found in Aurelis, Emberlow, Greymoor, Hollowtide, the Academy

Undead Kin 12 species

Look Gaunt, hollowed frame with exposed bone and sunken sockets; pallid grey-green flesh lit by a faint spectral-teal glow; cracked, desiccated, wrapped surfaces.

Known species

Banshee Bone Drake Drowned Deckhand Gloom Tyrant Lich Marshhusk Mummy Shadow Fiend Skeleton Warrior Vampire Lord Wraith Zombie

Often becomes Mauler, Guardian, Unbroken, Fighter

Found in Aurelis, Greymoor, Mirefen, the Riven Wastes

Elemental 16 species

Look Semi-formless body coiled around a bright glowing core; one saturated element hue — ember-orange, ice-blue, or storm-violet; translucent, flame-licked or crystalline surface.

Known species

Ashfiend Djinn Ember Mite Fenwisp Fire Elemental Gloom Tyrant Ice Elemental Magmahide Phoenix Prismweaver Storm Elemental Storm Ray Tempestcaller Void Maw Water Elemental Worldforger

Often becomes Brute, Mage, Beast, Leviathan

Found in Aurelis, Cinderreach, Greymoor, Hollowtide

Celestial 10 species

Look Radiant, symmetrical form haloed in warm light with feathered wings or a ringed nimbus; gold-and-white palette, sky-blue accents; smooth gilded, luminous surfaces.

Known species

Aetherwhale Demi-god Feathered Serpent Kirin Pegasus Phoenix Sphinx Star Moth Valkyrie Worldforger

Often becomes Guardian, Phoenix, Skirmisher, Virtuoso

Found in Cinderreach, Hollowtide, The Roost, Vaelspire, the Riven Wastes

Verminous 13 species

Look Low, many-limbed, skittering silhouette; glossy carapace in warning greens and warm amber over mottled black; segmented, wet-shelled chitin plates.

Known species

Basilisk Cave Ooze Centipede Horror Ember Mite Giant Beetle Giant Crab Giant Rat Giant Scorpion Giant Spider Giant Wasp Prismweaver Rat King Star Moth

Often becomes Alchemist, Archer, Archmage, Beast

Found in the Riven Wastes

Aquatic Kin 8 species

Look Sleek, finned, scaled build with fluid flowing lines; deep teal and sea-blue palette flashing pearlescent silver; wet iridescent scales and translucent fins.

Known species

Aetherwhale Drowned Deckhand Giant Crab Isleback Kraken Sea Serpent Shoalfin Storm Ray

Often becomes Skirmisher, Duelist, Brawler, Brute

Found in Greymoor, Hollowtide, the Riven Wastes

Bestial 25 species

Look Low, four-square predatory stance, fur and hide over corded muscle; earthen russet and umber pelt lit by ember-gold highlights; bristling coat, bared fangs.

Known species

Blighttoad Boar Bugbear Centaur Chimera Cloudroc Cragram Giant Bat Giant Owl Gnoll Griffin Half-orc Isleback Mammoth Manticore Ogre Orc Pegasus Shellback Skyreaver Sphinx Troll Unicorn Werewolf Wolf

Often becomes Beast, Brute, Fighter, Guardian

Found in Aurelis, Emberlow, Greymoor, Hollowtide, The Aerie, Vaelspire, the Academy, the Riven Wastes

Humanoid 27 species

Look Upright, two-armed frame in worn leather and stitched cloth; natural skin tones warmed by amber jewel-glints; practical, hand-worn, grounded textures.

Known species

Bugbear Centaur Dark Elf Demi-god Djinn Dwarf Elf Frost Giant Giant Gnoll Gnome Goblin Half-elf Half-orc Halfling Hobbit Human Kobold Lamia Lich Mummy Orc Satyr Skeleton Warrior Tiefling Valkyrie Vampire Lord

Often becomes Beast, Skirmisher, Guardian, Fighter

Found in Aurelis, Emberlow, Greymoor, Hollowtide, Mirefen, The Aerie, The Roost, Vaelspire, the Academy

Stone Kin 4 species

Look Squat, heavy, blocky mineral build with faceted planes; grey granite and warm ochre veined by a bright crystalline seam; rough chiseled, rocky texture.

Known species

Cragram Dwarf Gnome Magmahide

Often becomes Guardian, Leviathan, Beast, Brute

Found in Aurelis, Cinderreach, Emberlow, Hollowtide, the Academy, the Riven Wastes

Dormant, undiscovered: Construct, Wild Kin, Deep Kin, Plant. No one has drawn them out.

Body plans

Every creature has exactly one core shape.

Biped Quadruped Serpentine Amorphous Many Legged

Elements

The elemental identity a creature carries. A fire drake reads apart from a necrotic one.

Fire Poison Cold Lightning Holy Necrotic

Powers

Structural abilities the fight engine reads directly.

Flight: grounded · glide · sustained Aquatic: dry · amphibious · aquatic Incorporeal

Attributes

The raw stats every genome spends its budget on.

Size Speed Might Finesse Vigor Metabolism Attunement Nerve Wit