The Creatures of Xanth
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B’s |
Larger and more magical than bees, living in a B-Have. They are of many types: B-hold, B-neath, B-wilder, B-foul and so on. |
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Basilisk |
Called "Little King of the Reptiles" it emerges from a yolkless egg laid by a rooster and hatched by a toad in the warmth of a dung heap. Because few roosters lay eggs, the creatures are rare. It looks like a small winged lizard with the head and claws of a chicken. It’s breath is so bad that it wilts vegetation, and its gaze causes death, therefore it doesn’t like mirrors. Periodically all the basilisks gather at the Land of the Basks to hold staring contests. Also called cockatrices, henatrices, and chickatrices. |
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Bears and Bulls |
Strange Mundane stockyard animals who charge heedlessly up and down. |
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Behemoth |
A creature mostly mouth, who is the door to the Gateway Castle under Lake Ogre-Chobee. |
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Brain Coral |
Living in a preservative fluid with stasis-magic, it operates through other agencies to accomplish its noble task. It cannot control a conscious, intelligent living entity, but rather operates through suggestions that seem like the creatures' own notions. A number of creatures are stored in its preservative fluid, for eventual release. |
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Brassies |
Residents of the City of Brass in the hypnogourd, they are made of brass. The males wear brassards, the females brassieres. They are activated to work on specific dreams, for their craftmanship is excellent. For them, life is a fate worse than death, as they aren’t strictly alive. |
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Bugbear |
It has multiple bug legs and wings and feelers and a huge horrible mask of a face, and specializes in scaring little children. |
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