Centi,

Nickel,

Dime,

Quarter,

Dollar,

A whole family of creatures. Centipedes are not worth two cents. Nickelpedes are five times as big and bad, dimepedes are slighty smaller but twice as bad as nickelpedes, and dollarpedes are a hundred times as big, but are not fierce at all, because they are made of greenish paper with or without a silver backbone, and have little saying power. As you might expect, it is the dollarpedes that are most prized by Mundanes, who collect them.

Centipede - Worthless, mostly harmless unless encountered in large numbers.

Nickelpedes - Ferocious insects five times as big as centipedes, with pincers of nickel. They attack anything moving in shade or darkness, but can not function in direct sunlight.

Dimepede - Rare but dangerous. Twice as mean as a Nickelpede with an appetite to match, but smaller.

Quarterpede - Mean, just mean. Stay well clear of them if you can. They are very rare and dangerous.

Dollarpede - One hundred times the size of a centipede, but without much power, because it's made of green and gray paper. The face resembles that of a sphinx, while the backside suggests a bird waxing amorous with a shield. Some rare dollarpedes have silver backbones, and feed on things like Principal, Interest, Assests, Liabilities or Budgets.


As of yet, I do not know of any Milli-pedes and dont think I want to.

Phoenix

A bird of fancy feathers who lives 500 years, buts itself to death, and rises anew from the ashes.

Picklepuss

Feline creature with a green prickly snout and eyes moist with brine, who pickles those who touch it.

Plants

In Xanth, plants are not necessarily passive. They have endless variety and magical powers. The most prominent are ones like the tangle tree and needle cactus, but there are useful ones like the shoe tree and blanket bushes. Castle Roogna has a whole orchard with ones like the cherry trees and pie trees and the guardian trees that move their branches to interfere with enemies of the castle. In addition there are curse burrs, fruit-cups, knotweeds, the kraken weed, nosegays, pillbox bushes (for headache pills), pomegranates (with rock hard fruit) and snapdragons. Irene makes much of plants, as her talent is to make they grow rapidly.

Pooka

A ghost horse, such as Pook, Peek or Puck.

Pseudo-Men

Half-humans who inherited man�s destructive tendencies: trolls, ogres, giants, goblins and such. Some, like the gnomes and elves, are not that bad, and ones like the fauns and nymphs are good.

Python

The nemesis and sometimes delight of females, he helps guard Parnassus. A huge serpent.