Lore
Magical Beasts
魔獣
Races & CreaturesNotable Monsters & Summons
An umbrella term for animals with special abilities, ranging from those more intelligent than humans to those no smarter than ordinary beasts; they are relatively vulnerable to mind-control attacks.
- Sleipnir: eight-legged steeds that surpass horses in strength, stamina, and speed and are worth more than five warhorses; only one in several hundred is white.
- Hippogriff: the offspring of a griffin and a mare, easier to tame than griffins; it is the mount of the Royal Air Guard, the Emperor's personal guard.
- Gigant Basilisk: difficulty 83 (Web "Academy-8"), with a petrifying gaze, deadly venom, and skin as tough as mithril; anyone who can defeat one deserves adamantite rank.
- Divine beasts: the god-hunting wolf Fenrir (level 78, a jet-black giant wolf) and the sun iguana (Itzamna) Quadracile are Aura's beasts.
- Hamsuke: a giant Djungarian hamster called the "Wise King of the Forest," estimated to be in the level 30s; a monster that does not exist in YGGDRASIL.
- A mammoth-type beast of about level 40: commonly used for transport in YGGDRASIL, it resists cold and fire and can go without eating for long periods (Vol. 11).
- Horses are the usual mounts in surrounding nations; special mounts include giant lizards, giant ants, and giant mantises (The Phantom Ship of Katze Plains (Part 1)-089)
- Aura's beasts (Vol. 14 pp. 495–496): Rainbow Tyrant (level 71, tyrannosaur-like, with a "Terrifying Roar"), Hound of the Wild Hunt (level 77), Kirin and Amphisbaena (level 76 each), Basilisk (level 74), and Avaricious Frog (level 58)
- The Thousand-Spear Thorn Rabbit (level 67, a white long-haired rabbit over 2 m whose fur turns into needles in combat) was recommended by Aura and Mare as a candidate beast for Carne Village's defense (Vol. 8 p. 282)
- The Web novel says the Gigant Basilisk "can only be beaten by orichalcum-rank adventurers"; sources see this as the author mistakenly using the light novels' rank names in the Web novel
Notes
What adventurers most dream of riding are flying beasts such as griffins, hippogriffs, and wyverns.
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