Folklore of the isles, water and the drowned, anomalous far-side, and
beasts and heraldry — 25 each, in four source files wired into
collectSpecs(). check-creatures passes at 204 specs across 13 sources and
the full 23-guard suite is green.
The population this was meant to fix:
non-human body plan 4 -> 48 (29 quadruped, 15 winged)
vesh / cadence 5/5 -> 13/13
creatures 47 -> 147
CREATURE_FORGE_PLAN.md called the unused location tables the reason to
build any of this; the quadruped and winged plans now carry a bestiary
rather than three dogs and a heraldic beast.
Art is procedural: 102 SVG portraits composed from each creature's own
body geometry, so a cadence portrait has five headless bodies because its
location table has five. The 17 hand-made portraits are untouched.
BESTIARY_ART.md carries 204 derived Midjourney prompts for the ones worth
illustrating properly later.
Known and unfixed, reported by three of the four authors independently:
WEAPONS has no bite, claw, gore, hoof or talon, so every creature that
kills with its mouth carries `grasp` and states its real damage in prose.
simulate.mjs measures the grasp. Next commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
