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A branch of the elvish genology that is physically more pale in complection than high elves, and have slightly more prominant arches in their brow. They almost have exclusively black hair, with the occassional exception. They usually have green or grey eyes, but the other colours occur frequently. They often use War Paint to decorate themselves for battle or cerimonies. They use a clan system to organise the base of their society, and have a ruling elite that consists of three families. The leading family is selected through deed.

They hold a greater connection with natural world, and have a tendancy to worship moon gods. There culture isolates them from most non-moon elves, and they hold a distinct hatred of the races that ignorantly destroy the natural world. They have a special relationship with many magical beasts, and often live in close contact with cratures like pixies and unicorns.

The Moon Elves of South Western Labyrinth have an artificial sun, which creates a twenty four hour day cycle, by rising a 6 AM and setting at 9 PM. They have a large variety of plant and animal life, most of which has gone exitinct except in the forests these Moon Elves zealously protect from outsiders. They were amoung the first races to venture to the underdark in order to preserve their way of life, and the lives of the creatures and animals they hold dear.

The majority of the population is apt at spellcasting of some sort, though there are many proficient fighters as well. They favour slender swords and bows to most other weapons, and only use a form of elvish chain mail as armour. They have many types of cavalry, including dragon riders. A gold dragon has formed a bond with this colony, and protects it with his life.

Some of the most powerful druids in Labyrinth reside in the Moon Elf community, even though most of them are not Moon Elves.

Beholders

A floating eye with many eye stalks, it shots rays of magical energy which often kill whatever they hit, or polymorph or charm those creatures. Beholders are on of the most feared creatures in the underdark because they can use their main eye, or the big eye in the middle, to create a zone of anti-magic, which prevents the use of any magical property. They have a single large mouth at the bottom of their body/head, and use a natural methan gas to keep themselves floating. They eat anything.

Carrion Crawlers

Large caterpillar-like creatures that resemble a giant catterpillar but the head has four tenticles stretching out from around the mouth. These tendrils can sting creatures with a paralytic poison. They generally only eat carrion, but if starved they will go after living creatures. Rather docile if left alone.

Deep Spawn

A bulbous pulp of flesh which appears to be a gaint, ofter reaching fifteen feet in diameter, ball of flesh with several tenticles and long necked heads. It uses these limbs to attack any crature that comes into reach, to literally pull them into itself, where the Deep Spawn creates a dublicate of the original that he can control through some magical means. Flamable.

Displacer Beasts

A large hunting cat that can get to about 1200 lbs in size. They have six legs, and two tenticles that reach out from the formost shoulders. They generally eat anything that moves. These creatures can alter the space around them to make their presence spread through a larger area ((often reffered to as a displacement spell)). The cat can sense movement through contact with the ground (tremer sense), and have keen noses. If you are within a few miles of this cat, he knows.

Driders

Former drow citizens blessed with spider-like forms usually for being disrepectful or merely annoying some woman. They resemble centaurs in the sense that they have the body of a drow with the legs and torso of a spider. They have spiners and web, as well as often wield two magical axes. They are venomous.

Gargoyals

A rare creaturethat often is the result of a wizard trying to protect his domain through animated stone. Sometimes, those wizards die, and the gargoyals go off on their own. They usually have wings and can fly rather clumsby. Resistant to magic and melee weapons, as they are animated stone. The magic in the creation causes the stone to adopt harder qualities. They are often used to ambush people by placing other statues in an area that houses them. If a gargoyal remains still, it does not look or feel alive at all.

Giant Beetles

Like a normal bettle, but 8 534 times the size. Eats living tissue.

Goblinoids

The most common form of living creature in the underdark simply because they breed more often than they eat. They come in many varieties, but the smaller species are usually more common because they need considerably less food. Often small gobliniods are the primary food for larger gobliniod species.

Pecks

An earth fey (faerie species) that look like small beardless gnomes that only wear pants and a vest, and always have one pick axe. They love the earth. They are friendly, but dangerous if you piss them off because they have many earth based spells and powers, such as conjouring earth elementals or creating avalanches or cave ins.

Purple Worms

The largest creature in the underdark, surpasing even dragons in size. They can be miles long, and generally are accepted as the ones responsible for the many maze like cavrens that dot the planes. They are very fierce, and can swollow creatures whole, where they are promptly crushed by the jowls or gizzard into oblivion, should you survive that, you can attempt to survive the escreation process.

Rust Monsters

An insectiod that eats iron ore, by using two of its head tendrils to cause oxydisation in tte raw material or objects which contain iron. They look like roaches, but have two giant flowing tendrils, and a tail that is similar to what one would find on a dolphin. It is convered by a hard outer shell which can protected it from many pounds of pressure.

Umber Hulks

A biped bettle-like creature that has two great arms that can cut through stone like butter. It is a tunneling creature which lives in family units, and claims a territory it is not willing to share with any creature or other family of Umber Hulks. Occassionally Umber Hulks become solitary and venture out on their own until they find a new family to join, possibly hundreds of years after leaving their primary nest. They have two great jaws as well, probably capable of cuting down a fully grown English Oat tree with one bite.

Undead

Surprising rare in the underdark, because they are often preyed upon by carrion crawlers. They often take the form of skeletons because zombified flesh seems to rot much quicker in the dark than on the surface. Few areas contain a large number of these creatures.

Xorns

A type of earth elemental that travels to material planes to live life as a stalagtite/mite. They sit on cavern ceilings, and fall on fleshy creatures that pass underneath them. They eat because they enjoy the sensations of crushing things with their jaws.

Vampires

Very, very rare in the underdark, despite the fact that they have little to fear. (Fire and sunlight are extremely rare). Most vampires starve to death. Some make homes amongst the goblins or other 'intellegent' life in the dark, often living as they traditionally do on the surface. Since places where they can thrive like that are relatively rare, they tend to be small in number. Most species in the Dark are paranoid due to the extreme number of dangers, and tend to uncover and kill vampires quickly.

(As Compromised by Az)

A few gifted individuals are force attuned. They can sense some things, unexplicably. Even more rare are masters of this unexplainable yet completely explainable force. These masters are called Jedi, or if evil, Sith.

Jedi can use the force. Sith can use the force.

As such, they are banned from using any other form of magic. Any jedi to tamper with other forms of magic automatically loses all force connection and power, as one must trust his entire being to the force, or the force will cease to be with him. You cannot be a partial Jedi/Sith. If you lose all your powers and want them back, you must forsake and stop using your non-force related powers. Only by truly believing in the force will it come to your aid.

Why? Because magical energy robs the universe of power by either manifesting human will as physical pressence or manipulating others to believe it . This damages the force, or more accurately, discredits and abuses the force. The force is a very jealous mistress and will only accompany those who only love and use her.

Why? Magic and Psionics don't mix, as they are different means to the same end. Magic cannot increase psionics (psychic power) and psionics cannot increase magical power as they are counter-productive. ((similar to how waves interfere with eachother if they are of certain valiences))

Why? Balance in the force.

Why? Yoda said so.

Species: Draithix

Size: Ranging from one foot to two feet with ears erect height wise, and from two feet to three feet with tail straight. Wingspan is roughly its body length (twice when both wings included) when fully splayed, secondary wings are half the primary wingspan.

Hide: Fur and scales, near infinite color variations and mixes. Fur has a soft down feathery feel to it, scales are extremely hard, but smooth.

Markings: Scales always present on underside, spine, tail, ears, around the eyes and top of the snout and head, and on the tops of the shoulders and knees. Ridging/sailing/membrane structures can vary.

Traits: Slit pupil eyes, whiskers, non-retractable claws, quad-winged –semi transparent membrane, spurs on wing joints and back of paws.

Abilities: Flight, near impenetrable hide, adaptable breathing, stasis ability, dual vision modes, venom production and administration via paws.

Vocals: Varied among barks, yips, chitters, mewling, purring, growls, roars, trills, whistles, and clicks.

A fairly intelligent creature that seems to be a mix of the common species of a dragon, canine, and feline. It is inventive to an extent and shows the ability of rather situational thinking and analyzing. Temperament in this creature seems to be at a rather easy going and mellow level.

Initially hatched from eggs that are eighteen inches in circumference, they are considered mammals and are omnivores, their teeth and jaws strong enough to bite into and in some cases through practically anything. Their environment mostly consists of rocky areas and cavernous regions, though they can survive in most any environment. Study indicates that their vision is double based dependant upon light. In fairly well lit conditions their vision is on the normal levels on any creature, but they can only detect primary colors while all others are in blacks, whites and shades of gray. In dark conditions, the eyes take on a sheen and switch to a heat detecting based vision in a wide spectrum of colors that represent cold and warmth. Their hearing and sense of smell is also highly developed.

Physically they have a body structure that pertains to a feline, the hind legs perhaps slightly larger in the hip region, their back legs rather powerful for pouncing. The head takes on more canine like features, the snout elongated and jaw very canine like. In respect to their dragonic looks, they bear four wings that have semi transparent membranes, and hard scales as well as a dragonic like tail. Their paws are digigrade, consisting of only three toes of which they walk upon.

The wings which seem a tad small in contrast to their bodies are used in a specific way to achieve flight. The smaller secondary wings use their spurs to hook onto the bottom spurs of the primary wings and interlocking the sets, effectively creating a broader surface area. During flight they can unlock their wing sets to control altitude, speed, as well as the secondary wings acting as rudders to control direction.

Their main form of attack is their claws and paws. In times of distress or when riled into a state of aggression, the pads of their paws secrete a venom that causes a burning sensation upon contact followed by numbness in the affected area. Along with this mode of attack, they are known to head-butt their foes, the hard scales on the tops of their heads and ears acting much like rams’ horns may in that respect.

Hydras are generally accepted to originate in Greek (Helen) Mythology. They are known for having many snake-like heads with monkey faces attached to a central bulbous body, often with feet and a single tail (sometimes ending with a stinger). These creatures are known for regenerative properties, and multi-growing heads (each head severed grows two more to replace it). It is believed that they served on the side of Zeus in the war against Chronos. Heracles/Hercules is famous for defeating one as part of his Twelve Trials, or to save Thebes in Disney's animated motion picture.

Because it would be boring if every hydra was the same, there are some interesting sub-species of hydra.

Chyrohydra: Same creature as a hydra, but can use an ice-breath weapon.
Pyrohydra: Breathes fire.