Favorite Fantasy Creatures

BOMB 2021-08-03 18:06:08 UTC #1

So I have a series called Pitch The Adventures of Danger Rabbit, that includes a number of fantasy creatures.

Satyrs, trolls, and goblins are probably my favorite fantasy creatures to include in stories, but I never write them exactly the same. Sometimes I'll have super athletic elves in one story, but they'll have brittle bones in another. Or I'll have basketball-playing trolls in one story, and warmongering trolls in another.

I'm just curious, what kind of fantasy creatures you all like to include in your stories, and what makes them different or unique from how other people write them. I know in many people's stories goblins are evil, but in Pitch, I portrayed them as highly intelligent creatures that are treated as monsters despite their being more human than actual humans.

Feel free to promote if your story includes fantasy creatures.

LunaRing 2021-08-03 18:11:29 UTC #2

I have a plant elemental that it is the root of all knowledge https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/fairy-stepmother/list?title_no=624778

Aeneas1 2021-08-03 19:20:56 UTC #3

My favourites include ogres, goblins, dwarves, gnomes and faeries. They will be featured in later arcs of this manga.

https://tapas.io/series/Nixvir

queen_of_spades 2021-08-03 19:25:51 UTC #4

although my novel is fantasy, the characters are human - immortals. I already follow you! they seem interesting. my favourite fantasy characters are: fairies, vampires, witches, centaurs, dragons... all of them !?!

Stargazer31 2021-08-03 20:28:28 UTC #5

I love Selkies and Trolls! Both will be included in my comic

hcollinsziviski 2021-08-05 14:25:52 UTC #6

Weres, witches, sirens, ghosts/spirits, ect.

Weres is part of society, the rest maybe appear later on; who knows.

FafasMcMelt 2021-08-05 14:37:09 UTC #7

Hags, probly nº 1. And I mean the green ones with the big noses, warts n stuff. The ones that look absolutely disgusting. Those are the ones.

djourner 2021-08-05 14:49:24 UTC #8

I write a dragon centric story, in a dragon centric world filled with dragons.
Of course my favorite fantasy creature are kobolds (The cute lizardy d&d version :3)

In all seriousness though, there are plenty of fantasy creaturues in JTA.
The world itself is populated by anthropomorphic animals, and ruled by the aforementioned dragons. But there are many more creatures, even though so far we only saw black dogs (and a hydra in the latest chapter i'm writing).
There are also demons, naga/merman, fey folk, and many more, some of them have human levels of inteligence and receive proper race names (like the ones I just mentioned), but some are more animalistic and are universaly categorized as monsters, there are literally endless possbilities of what the group is gonna find on the next corner of the world.
And as the story goes we will see more and more of it.

As for what makes them unique... Well... A good chunk of later chapters revolves around explaining that in a world where a wolf person talks to a fox/bull hybrid about their naga boss unusual lunch habits, what exactly would be 'the norm'? Why are some races and people ostracized from society while others are allowed a free pass?
There is a deep layer of discussion here that we will get to later, for now races are mostly just a bonus. Vernon is a manned wolf, so he got a good nose and ears. Grey is a lynx (with some hybrid traits) so his tongue is barbed and he speaks rather unusally. And Azreth is a dragon so he has some strange abilities, some of which he is not even aware off.