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BUNWITS: Any of a variety of herbivorous animals with long hind legs and flat,

surprised-looking faces under erect, triangular ears. Like all animals native to

the world, bunwits are tailless. They eat young grasses and the leaves of

webwillows.




FLITCHHAWKS: Swift, high-flying birds which prey mostly upon bunwits of the

smaller varieties. Noted for their keen eyes.




FUSTIGARS: Pack-hunting predators, some varieties of which have been extensively

inbred and domesticated.
GNARLIBARS: A huge animal which lives in the high wastes below theDorborRange.

It feeds upon anything it can catch, including old or ailing krylobos. The

gnarlibar has a ground-shaking roar which has earned it the name of "avalanche

animal." Gnarlibars always pack in fours, two females and two males; females

always bear twins, one male and one female. A set of Gnarlibars is called a

"leat" or crossroads, because of their invariable habit of attacking from four

directions at once. It is thought that the gnarlibar is the descendant of a

prehistoric race of animals so prodigious in size as to be considered mythical.




GROLE: A long, blind, legless animal with multiple rows of teeth which lives by

burrowing into soil, stone, or other inorganic materials, utilizing the light

metals in its metabolism. The teeth are of adamant and can be used as grinding