Mailanka's Musings

 As usual, I've neglected the blog in favor of the wiki and the discord, as I tend to get a lot of immediate feedback on the discord (pl...

The carnivorous plant litters the bestiaries of fantasy and space opera gaming, likely due to its association with early 20 th century adve...

 I've been hard at work on the Umbral Rim and the organizations, technology and monsters native there. I've finally worked out detai...

  Generic Space Parasite I’ve done most of this series based on real world creatures and while this one is no exception, this w...

  So, we have our space megapredators, but they don’t seem exactly like dragons, do they? They’re massive and they’re terrifying, but are th...

   We like big space monsters, and we cannot lie. The Tyrannosaurus Rex fills the minds of children with a terrified glee becaus...

  You thought I was done! But no, I had a few more I wanted to do. I’ve just been distracted by yet more aliens , and these take...

 And that's it for my Zero-Template Challenge.  I hope you liked it, but judging from the comments and the responses on my discord, you ...

 No, this isn't about a race called "the Rejects." I came up with a bunch of races that didn't make the cut because I coul...

Rumors and whispers had long swirled through the colonist population of Arcadius that the world was inhabited. Finally, when Sovereign fell,...

  Few humans have even heard of the Vithani, and fewer still have laid eyes upon a Vithani slave, much less enjoyed their company. The bruta...

  The Karkadann are among the oldest aliens known among the Arkhaian reaches, and for a time, were considered by archaeologists to be a cand...

    Elephants are inevitable. Space Opera is all about fighting giant space monsters , so naturally we’re fascinated by the large...

    I haven’t touched on birds for awhile, and doubtless, some people might wonder why not falcons ? Or why not parrots , etc. Wh...

  Most of my focus has been on creatures of the land for a few reasons. People deal with land creatures on a regular basis, and ...

We’ve already covered the cat, and what is a tiger but a scaled-up cat? Well, the biggest difference is that, unless you’re a m...

  The bear tends to feature strongly in the mythology of any culture that experiences them. This seems, in part, to extend from ...

  I think the only animal remotely competitive with a dog or cat for popular, intuitive understanding is the horse . Most people ...

  It's not all been Fun and Space Bestiaries at Mailanka's Musings; I still have a wiki to run, after all, and promises to fulfill t...

  Deer seem to be the generic “hunting prey.” If a story depicts a character hunting an animal that animal is probably a deer, ...