Martian Red Lizard

 

The red lizard would indeed be a formidable foe if not for its soft underbelly, and if the Fejuvisites had not developed a tactic for fighting the lizards. The Fejuvisites build a rock pile with a central chamber that contains small embrasures. The rock pile is baited with rotting beshi meat which draws the lizard-like flies to carrion. When the red lizard mounts the rock pile, the Fejuvisi warriors thrust spears through the embrasures and slay the lizards from the safety of their concealment.

 

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Khiver Root

This tuber is something between a potato and a carrot, with a mild or bland taste. The khiver grows reasonably well in the light of the phosphorescent lichen, and there are hundreds of caverns in Ledgrim which are devoted to growing this staple.

 

 

 

Crunth

Crunths possess blazing red eyes, scaly legs protruding from shaggy dun-colored coats. They possess squashed faces with small mouths filled with jagged, venomous teeth. They are not very agile, but if they are able to corner their prey and deliver a bite, the poison quickly renders their hapless victim helpless. Then, as a pack, they rend the victim apart, little piece by little piece.

 

Athrovar

A thick carapace of the athrovar is ridged with bulbous knots which give it the ability to crush and grind its foes–that and its immense weight which is carried on thick, stubby legs.

 

Martian Two-Headed Adder

These hide in the sands and their double heads strike in quick succession when someone disturbs their repose. They have a venom which is lethal to small animals. Usually, it takes several bites to kill a grown warrior—but not always. The two-headed adders who have yellow diamonds upon their heads appear to be the most venomous of their species.

 

Ponder Thrice

Gamma Medin, who was one of the founding mothers of the Muvari Tribe, and said to have borne eighteen children, four of them sons, and the rest mighty warriors, was reputed to have thought thrice before she hurled herself from a high defense and into the midst of a Scurm horde to buy time for her husband and progeny to seal the Back-Bridge Gate to Ledgrim. She slew ten galbran and then was transfixed by four spears, and continued to fight on until the gates were indeed sealed and she gave up the ghost. To this day, the Back-Bridge Gate remains sealed, walled off by seventy feet of brick and mortar.

 

Mushroom Chocolate

Having been familiar with earthly chocolate, Garvey Dire was quite excited to taste mushroom chocolate, which is derived from a sap that seeps from a dark mushroom of a variety that grows up to five feet in height and in diameter. The mushroom chocolate was not, however, quite the same flavor as the chocolate to which Garvey was accustomed. It has a more earthy flavor more closely resembling a dark chocolate mixed with the bite of cumin. Though a bit foreign to the palate of the astronaut, it is considered a delicacy among the Muvari and is a popular item when trading with other tribes.

The mushrooms that produce this chocolate grow only in the climates of certain soil and caverns and it is said that the Scurm and Rathgur tribes of the Galbran once waged a fifty-year war over one such cavern.