Illustration by Stanton Fink Written by Leo Gonzales People have been eating snails since before they left the Cradle of humankind. One snail understood this sad fact, and sought to revenge itself and Snailkind on humanity. One night, long ago, this wrathful gastropod crawled into the mouth of a sleeping man
Illustration by Stanton Fink Written by Leo Gonzales The Larva is a restless ghost born of the forgotten dead. When the living neglect to give a corpse its last rites, especially out of spite or callousness, the deity Charon denies the corpse’s spirit entry into the Underworld. Such spirits then return
Illustration by Stanton Fink Written by Leo Gonzales Lampago is an enormous beast who lives in the sweltering jungles of Qin. Lampago resembles a tiger who is twenty hands at his shaggy withers. Lampago’s lustrous fur is a dozen different shimmering hues of red, crimson, carmine, scarlet, ruby, vermilion. Many mistake
Illustration credit: Stanton Fink Written by Leo Gonzales Satyrral is the foolish protégé of Lampago and the awkward friend of Manticore. Some say Satyrral was a boy whom the great, sagacious Lampago tried to teach the arts of power to. Others claim that Satyrral was the one beast whom the arrogantly
Illustration by Stanton Fink Written by Leo Gonzales Indrik is a deity of beasts who claims all animals, with the exception of some certain humans as his subjects. Indrik’s abode is a mountain simply referred to as Holy Mountain. From Holy Mountain, Indrik holds court; with deer and lions as his
Hōkō is a deity who lives inside of a camphor tree. Most legends and beastieries describe Hōkō as a monkey-like creature with the head of a man, and the body of a dog, and who was assigned to care for this tree by another deity. All sources always mention that