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Chiaroscuro is host to a bevy of animals that inhabit all forms of terrain and landscape. Some of these are hunted by people. Some of these hunt people. Some just annoy people. Regardless of what they do, they all play a vital role in the developing theme, as well as within the +crafting system! Here are just a few of them.

ANAE STORK
A three-foot-tall bird with a curved yellow beak, long neck, green eyes and white and yellow feathers.

BROWN ELK
A hoofed quadruped, with a slender black snout and a pelt of soft beige fur. The brown elk has pointed antlers that sprout from the top of its head.

BUSHDRAGON
A five-foot-long quadruped reptile, with red-and-green throat flukes, pale olive green hide and a whip-like tail. Sharp fangs protrude from its long snout.

CAVEBAT
A leather-winged mammal with claws, a blunt-nosed, rounded head and sharp fangs

CHITTER
A foot-long quadruped mammal, with bulging amber eyes masked in black fur, striped black and white from snout to prehensile tail.

FORESTER'S SPARROW
A small brown and gray bird, with yellow talons and a blue beak.

FOUR-TOED HUNCH
A three-foot-long quadruped mammal with large green eyes and rounded ears, covered from snout to rump in short gray fur. A bare pink tail extends about a foot from the rump.

GRAY BUZZARD
A gray-plumed buzzard with a wingspan of about six feet, talons and a beak.

GRAY SQUAWKER
An orange-beaked bird with gray wing feathers and white feathers bushed on its chest.

KAHAR RED DEER
A cinnamon-furred, hoofed quadruped with large brown eyes, a slender snout, and spiked antlers.

LOMASA GOOSE
A web-footed goose with white feathers and a yellow beak.

LONGFLANK HARE
A long-eared quadruped mammal covered in gray and brown fur, with paddle-shaped back feet that give it remarkable leaping ability in life.

LOWLAND BISON
An eight-foot-long hoofed, chocolate-brown quadruped mammal with blunt horns jutting from the top of its head.

MANKILLER BEAR
A ten-foot-long cinnamon-furred quadruped mammal with clawed feet and ferocious-looking fangs bristling from its snout.

MARSH PHEASANT
A foot-high bird with a black beak, glittering black eyes, and feathers of brown, gray and black.

MONGOOSE
A three-foot-long quadruped mammal, sleek and sinuous, with clawed feet, brown fur, dark eyes, sharp teeth and rounded ears.

MOSS JAY
A six-inch-tall bird with blue beak, red eyes and olive green feathers.

MUD BEAR
A six-foot-long brown-furred quadruped mammal with a mask of black fur around its eyes and ears.

NIGHTSLIDER
A nine-foot-long legless reptile, with jet black scales, sharp fangs and glittering green eyes.

RIVER EEL
A three-foot long eel with black skin.

ROCK WOLF
A five-foot-long quadruped mammal, with clawed feet, gray and white fur, haunting ice blue eyes, sharp teeth and angled ears that sprout tufts of white fur.

SALMON
A two-foot-long gilled fish with green dorsal scales and pink ventral scales.

SHRIEKWEASEL
A four-foot-long quadruped mammal, sleek and sinuous, with clawed feet, brown fur, dark eyes masked in goldenrod fur, sharp teeth and angled ears.

SIENNA OWL
A two-foot-tall owl with orange beak, yellow eyes and beige feathers.

SILVER APE
A five-foot-tall bipedal mammal with gray, silver and white fur covering its massively built body, from bucket-shaped head to broad shoulders to brutal-looking fists to strong legs that in life can kick a man's spine out of his body from the front.

SNAPLIZARD
A ten-foot-long quadruped reptile, with stubby legs, thick green and brown scales, a snout bristling with sharp teeth and a spiked tail.

SNOW BEAR
A six-foot-long white-furred quadruped mammal with a mask of gray fur around its eyes and ears.

TREECLINGER
A three-foot-tall bipedal mammal with gray fur, rounded ears and sleepy-looking amber eyes.

TROUT
A two-foot-long gilled fish with green scales.

TUFT-EARED WILDCAT
A four-foot-long quadruped mammal, with clawed feet, spotted beige and black fur, sharp teeth and angled ears that sprout tufts of white fur.

TUMBLER
A three-foot-long brown-furred quadruped aquatic mammal with a mask of gray fur around its eyes and a long tail that in life helps propel it through water.

WILD BOAR
A four-foot-long quadruped mammal, with hoofed feet, matted brown fur, a snout bristling with sharp teeth and tusks.