Bestiary

A working index for recurring monsters and enemy creature categories that appear across Jericha stories, especially when they are not individual named characters.^[1]

On this page

Category: Creature Reference^[1]
Step 1: Use this page when an appearance row names a monster category rather than a specific character.^[2]
Step 2: Keep individual named monsters on character pages when they have stable identities.^[2]
Step 3: Use group pages for organized factions, and this page for repeatable creature types.^[2]

More facts

Category: Hags^[3]
Quick effect: Hag threats and variants; Gertie-associated, not automatically Gertie's servants.^[3]
Category: Undead^[4]
Quick effect: Encounter-type skeleton, bone, and flameskull threats.^[4]
Category: Fey^[5]
Quick effect: Fey goblins seen as feral and not considered Witchborn; often associated with hags.^[5]
Category: Spiders^[6]
Quick effect: Boost-mutated phase spider threats.^[6]
Category: Beasts^[7]
Quick effect: Gnoll and harpy encounter categories; not named individuals or loot.^[7]
Category: Oozes^[8]
Quick effect: Generic ooze hazard.^[8]
Category: Imps^[9]
Quick effect: Small imp variants; not named imposters.^[9]
Category: Cyclops^[10]
Quick effect: Older eye-monster records resolve to Cyclops variants.^[10]

Reference overview

Overview

A working index for recurring monsters and enemy creature categories that appear across Jericha stories, especially when they are not individual named characters.^[1]

Hags

Description

Recurring fey enemies whose bargains turn fear, grief, hunger, and desire into traps. Hags are often connected to Gertie the Collector's orbit, but this entry is for hag-threat scenes and hag variants, not for Gertie herself or every Gertie-associated person.^[3]

Skeletons and Flameskulls

Description

Recurring undead combatants, bone guardians, skeletal variants, and magical skull threats that appear as encounter types rather than stable named characters. Keep named undead, necromancers, bosses, and larger necromancy lore on their own pages.^[4]

Red Caps

Description

Red Caps are a type of goblin, and goblins are a type of Fey. Red Caps are seen as feral and therefore are not considered Witchborn. They are often associated with hags.^[5]

Boosted Phase Spiders

Description

Phase spider threats altered by Boost, especially lower-cavern and New Goblin City encounters. This entry should explain the monster behavior and link to Boost without turning Boost itself into a monster.^[6]

Gnolls and Harpies

Description

Recurring ambush and cave-route threats, useful for ledges, pack pressure, aerial harassment, and hostile territory encounters. Keep named gnolls, faction-specific enemies, loot, witch-doctor items, and important individual monsters on separate pages when those identities become specific.^[7]

Gray Oozes

Description

Generic ooze hazards that appear in story or appearance data. Keep this entry narrow until more ooze variants are story-linked.^[8]

Glass-Winged Imps and Void Imps

Description

Small recurring imp threats, including glass-winged imps and void imps. Named imposters, Castro agents, Voidlings as a group, or stable NPC identities should remain character or group links instead of being folded into this creature category.^[9]

Cyclopes

Description

Cyclopes include Jericha's giant-bodied, floating, many-eyed, and ocular-ray variants. Older archive descriptions of eye-monsters resolve to Cyclops variants rather than a separate Jerichan species. Promote a specific Cyclops to a character page only when it gains a stable individual identity.^[10]

Relationships

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References

[1] Bestiary
Source details
Published reference bestiary; original wording and source certainty retained
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[2] Bestiary
Source details
Published reference bestiary; original wording and source certainty retained
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[3] Bestiary · Hags
Source details
Published reference bestiary#hags-hags; source entry 1
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[4] Bestiary · Skeletons and Flameskulls
Source details
Published reference bestiary#undead-skeletons-and-flameskulls; source entry 2
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[5] Bestiary · Red Caps
Source details
Published reference bestiary#fey-red-caps; source entry 3
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[6] Bestiary · Boosted Phase Spiders
Source details
Published reference bestiary#spiders-boosted-phase-spiders; source entry 4
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[7] Bestiary · Gnolls and Harpies
Source details
Published reference bestiary#beasts-gnolls-and-harpies; source entry 5
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[8] Bestiary · Gray Oozes
Source details
Published reference bestiary#oozes-gray-oozes; source entry 6
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[9] Bestiary · Glass-Winged Imps and Void Imps
Source details
Published reference bestiary#imps-glass-winged-imps-and-void-imps; source entry 7
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[10] Bestiary · Cyclopes
Source details
Published reference bestiary#cyclops-cyclopes; source entry 8
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References