Magma Hounds prowl Ferroxia’s molten lowlands with hides tough as volcanic stone and talons that glow with inner heat. Fierce yet dependable, they serve as working beasts in many settlements, hauling, guarding, and scouting. In the wild, they roam in tight-knit packs, hunting with brutal coordination and unwavering loyalty.
 

Key Fact

• Hide: Their rock-like skin can withstand direct flame, allowing them to walk across cooling lava without injury.​

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Danger Rating: 🔥🔥🔥

Pyrestalkers are powerful, sure-footed beasts built to traverse Ferroxia’s jagged volcanic landscape. Muscular and steady, they handle molten rock and shifting ash with ease. Though lacking the speed of drakes, they are far more affordable and reliable, making them the preferred mount for traders, travellers, and everyday transport across the fiery plains.
 

Key Fact

• Terrain Mastery: Their heat-hardened hooves allow them to cross cooling lava fields without slowing.

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Danger Rating: 🔥🔥

Ironmanes are fierce, free-roaming horses adapted to Ferroxia’s harsh terrain. Their manes shimmer like hammered metal, and their hooves strike sparks against volcanic stone. Faster but less predictable than Pyrestalkers, they thrive in open lava plains, choosing their own paths with fiery independence and remarkable resilience.
 

Key Fact

• Hooves: Their iron-hard hooves can crack cooled lava plates and grant exceptional footing on unstable ground.

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Danger Rating: 🔥🔥🔥

Lava Crawlers are huge, crab-like beasts clad in hardened volcanic shells that can withstand immense heat and pressure. Using powerful claws, they tunnel through rock, ash, and cooled lava with remarkable ease. Though imposing, they are widely domesticated across Ferroxia, valued as indispensable labourers for construction, mining, and large-scale earthworks.
 

Key Fact

• Burrowing: Capable of carving tunnels through solid volcanic stone, creating stable passageways in otherwise impassable terrain.​

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Danger Rating: 🔥🔥🔥

Emberboars are thick-skinned, soot-black beasts whose glowing tusks and heat-shimmering hides mark them as true children of Ferroxia. Bred for their fire-resistant fat and rich meat, they are prized as feed for drakes in training. Naturally aggressive, they become more manageable only when raised from youth with steady, consistent handling.
 

Key Fact

• Tusks: Their ember-glowing tusks are carved into battle charms believed to grant strength and resilience.

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Danger Rating: 🔥🔥

  Ashwings are phoenix-like, scale-feathered birds that thrive in the heat of forge pits and volcanic ash beds. Their faintly smouldering plumage allows them to fan and shape heat rather than flee from it. Highly valued in Ferroxian settlements, they contribute both nourishing eggs and fire-resistant down.
 

Key Fact​

• Utility: Their mineral-rich eggs strengthen drake bones, making them essential to hatchery diets.

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Danger Rating: 🔥

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Magma Rams are stocky, heat-forged beasts with obsidian-curled horns and glowing veins beneath their wool. Grazing on mineral-rich lava moss, they absorb nutrients that make their fleece exceptionally fire-resistant. Highly prized across Ferroxia, they provide durable wool for armour padding and potent milk used in traditional healing salves.

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Key Fact

• Fleece: Their wool can withstand extreme heat, making it ideal for crafting protective gear in volcanic regions.

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Danger Rating: 🔥🔥

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Furnace Mice are tiny, swift creatures that thrive around molten vents and forge embers. Their fur shifts colour with temperature, glowing faintly in hotter areas. Semi-domesticated in many settlements, they scurry through workshops and forges, keeping insects and scraps at bay with their quick movements and keen senses.
 

Key Fact

• Temperature Fur: Their colour-changing coats help workers gauge heat levels near vents and machinery.

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Pyre Rats are lean, ember-furred rodents that thrive in the cracks and crevices of Ferroxia’s forges and lava tunnels. Their tails glow faintly when they grow agitated, and they emit sharp squeaks that echo through molten chambers. Opportunistic and bold, they scavenge anything remotely edible – even charred metal scraps.

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Key Fact

• Heat Sense: Their whiskers detect temperature shifts with remarkable accuracy, allowing them to navigate active lava flows without ever being burned.

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Danger Rating: 🔥

Emberlings are tiny, salamander-like creatures that emerge from cooled lava pockets, their bodies warm to the touch and patterned with faint ember lines. Quick and plentiful, they dart across volcanic rock in jittery bursts. Common throughout Ferroxia, they serve as safe, early prey for young drakes learning to hunt.
 

Key Fact

• Origin: Their eggs develop within cooling lava crusts, hatching only when the surrounding rock reaches the perfect balance of warmth and stability.

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Danger Rating: 🔥

Coalfinches are tiny, soot-black birds that roost in forge chimneys and volcanic vents. Normally silent, they burst into eerie, trembling song whenever underground pressure builds, sensing shifts long before tremors reach the surface. Their presence brings a surprising calm to Ferroxian settlements, a soft melody amid heat and ash.
 

Key Fact

• Warning Call: Their eruption-song alerts miners and blacksmiths to imminent tremors or lava surges, often saving entire work crews.

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Ashplume Herons are tall, elegant birds with long legs and feathers that billow like drifting smoke. Their shifting grey plumes help them blend into volcanic haze as they patrol the edges of lava rivers. Patient hunters, they feed on emberfish and molten crabs, thriving where most creatures would instantly burn.
 

Key Fact

• Smoke Camouflage: Their plume-like feathers scatter heat and ash, allowing them to vanish almost completely within volcanic vapour.

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Danger Rating: 🔥🔥
 

Emberfish are sleek, heat-hardened creatures that swim through lava rivers with ease, their scales glowing like drifting coals. They feed on minerals and molten algae, radiating a soft orange light as they move. Quick and elusive, they form the base of many volcanic food chains and attract predators with their shimmering trails.
 

Key Fact

• Heat Adaptation: Their bodies circulate a specialised coolant fluid that allows them to survive within active lava flows.

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Molten Crabs scuttle along the edges of lava rivers, their thick, charred shells veined with glowing cracks that pulse like cooling magma. Slow but incredibly resilient, they feed on mineral deposits and emberfish eggs. When threatened, they curl into near-impenetrable domes, radiating intense heat to deter predators and scavengers.
 

Key Fact

• Shell: Their heat-forged carapace is so durable it’s often harvested to reinforce tools, shields, and furnace doors.

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Danger Rating: 🔥

Magmavore Eels lurk beneath the surface of active lava streams, their long, obsidian-plated bodies almost indistinguishable from the molten currents around them. Silent and patient, they strike only when prey wanders too close to the heat-glow ripples that betray their presence. With jaws that unhinge wide, they drag victims under in a single, brutal snap.
 

Key Fact

• Ambush Sign: Just before it attacks, the lava above a Magmavore Eel bulges upward as its superheated body displaces the molten flow.

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Danger Rating: 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Cinderscourges are soot-black beetles whose shells glow faintly red when heated. Drawn to warmth, ash, and metal residue, they thrive in forges, lava channels, and feed troughs. Voracious and persistent, they chew through grain, leather harnesses, and any material infused with sweat or soot, making them a constant nuisance in Ferroxian settlements.
 

Key Fact

• Forge Hazard: Large swarms can clog vents and airflow channels, forcing entire forges to halt until the beetles are cleared out.

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Danger Rating: 🔥🔥

Slagmites are armoured ants with translucent, glass-like abdomens that catch and reflect the glow of nearby lava. They nest beneath cooling slag heaps, shaping their tunnels with residual heat until the walls harden into glossy, brittle mounds. Industrious and relentless, they can destabilise foundations and metal stores with their expanding colonies.
 

Key Fact

• Scent: When crushed, they release a sharp metallic aroma known among smiths as the breath of Thoros.

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Danger Rating: 🔥

Firegnats are tiny, glowing orange midges that gather around open flames and molten metal. Drawn to heat and movement, they feed on sweat and blood, delivering brief, needle-hot stings. While individually harmless, they swarm in overwhelming numbers, harassing livestock, drake handlers, and forge workers across Ferroxia.
 

Key Fact

• Swarming: Their numbers multiply rapidly in high heat, forming dense clouds that can drive beasts into panic if not dispersed.

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Danger Rating: 🔥

Ashspinners are pale, long-legged spiders that weave strands of heat-resistant silk between stone rafters and forge beams. Feeding on Firegnats and Cinderscourges, they quietly keep workshops clear of pests. Though unsettling to many, they play a vital role in Ferroxian forges and are tied to old superstitions about luck and misfortune.
 

Key Fact

• Silk: Their fire-proof webbing is sometimes harvested to reinforce gloves and tool grips used by blacksmiths.

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Danger Rating: 🔥

Embergrubs are thick, segmented larvae with translucent skin that glows faintly from the heat they absorb. Found in warm soil, dung heaps, and refuse piles, they break down organic matter with surprising speed. Though useful, they pose a nuisance when drawn to hides or old timber, leaving behind burnt, tar-like residue.
 

Key Fact

• Oil: Their rendered oil is a highly valued natural accelerant, used to spark forges and kindling fires across Ferroxia.

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Danger Rating: 🔥

Emberwings are delicate moths with soot-dark bodies and wings that flare with ember-like patterns when disturbed. Drawn to heat rather than light, they flutter around forge chimneys and lava vents, feeding on mineral dust carried in the rising air. Though harmless, their sudden bursts of glowing colour often startle unwary workers.
 

Key Fact

• Wingflash: When threatened, their wings ignite in a brief, shimmering flare that disorients predators and mimics drifting sparks.

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