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Discussion The Great Lustrian Bestiary

Discussion in 'Fluff and Stories' started by Mr.Crocodile, Dec 4, 2023.

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    A Guide To Myriad Creatures Wild And Terrible

    - Chief Naturalist Alfredo Felguera, Royal University of Magritta.


    (A collaborative work by Mr.Crocodile and all credited artists and concept-creators)
     
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    Here is the direct link to "Chapter 1: Prefaces & Introduction" of the Great Lustrian Bestiary, an in-setting medieval-style bestiary I've been working on for almost a year. The Bestiary's second chapter "Tome I: Maritime & Coastal Fauna of Lustria." is going live next friday.
    (if you are wonderign why it's only being posted on ao3, it's the because the overall work is so long -more than 400 pages full of images- that I just don't think it's practical or feasible to double-post it like my stories.
     
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    Here is the direct link to "Tome I: Maritime & Coastal Fauna of Lustria" , the bestiary's forst proper chapter. This beastie includes 90+ imgaes and almost as many entries, and give you all a good idea of the mix of irl, fantastical and "in-betweener" creatures this document features.
    btw @Scalenex could it be possible to add a link in the Lustriapedia?
     
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    done, it's under Flora and Fauna
     
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    Here is the direct link to "Tome II: Freshwater Fauna of Lustria" , which looks like it's going to be the bestiary's longest segment. Almost 215 images in entries from as modest as fooder fish to water-dwelling monster capable of swallowing adventurers whole!
     
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    What do you all think of the bestiary so far?
     
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    Here's the link to "Tome VI: Warm-Blooded Herbivores of Lustria", this tome is quite short, but does have the dubious honor of holding some canon creatures that I somehow came up with before Cubicle 7.

    (If you want an explanation, the toxon and willembeest entries were written years ago, but I had to rename and re-edit them because the WFRP book for Lustria mentioned creatures with the exam same design and inspiration)
     
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    Here's the link to "Tome VII: Grand Cold-Blooded Herbivores of Lustria", this tome is probably going to be a fave for most of you, as it holds many of Lustria's beloved and massive cold-blooded creatures alongsides a good deal of original and fan-made creatures with original art.
     
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    Apologies for taking so long to actually post the link to this, life was very busy this week!

    BUT! I'm happy to say that with the Coda & Acknowledgments chapter, this mega-project is finished at 500 pages and almost as many entries!

    I can't belive it's finished, but I'm glad to know that there's been people following along for as long as I've been working on it. I will be taking a deserved rest from these fanlore compendiums for a while, but worry not, the Lustrian Atlas will return!
     
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    The artwork in the predator section is absolutely stunning.
     
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    Thank you!
     

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