Quail

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Creature Tanning Info
Quail
Creature information
Group Type I Bird
Group Type II Galliform
Aggressive No
Pursues No
Special Harvest None
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Quail
Creature information
Skin Type N/A
Size N/A
Weight (fresh) N/A
Weight (tanned) N/A

Name(s)

Adjectives (i.e., "green" or "fluffy") not included

  • Anting Quail
  • Chequered Quail
  • Duke's Quail
  • Pheasant Quail

Location(s)[1]

--Cities and Towns--

  • None

--Terrains--

  • Sto Plains - all locales, except coastline

Description(s)

Descriptions are example(s) from a single individual. Variations may be numerous, and dependent upon species, gender, age, location, and other variables.


Anting Quail

The anting quail is a small, silly ground bird, covered with little brown spots which are presumably designed to hide the creature from its predators. Given its apparent tendency to run around in circles cooing shrilly, and cuddle up to any larger animal that approaches, they probably don't give it a lot of help.

  • Alignment: 3 degrees of good


Chequered Quail

This quail is a small, plump bird with next to no tail and anxious, beady eyes. Its broad chest is a soft shade of peach, while each feather on its back and head is divided in equal parts into black and cream, giving it a chequered appearance.

  • Alignment: 3 degrees of good


Duke's Quail

The duke's quail is a plump brown bird with a pleasant air of busy-ness. So-called for its frequent guest appearances on the dining tables of the nobility, it nevertheless seems quite amiably disposed towards people, as it bustles happily around scratching the ground for Objects of Interest.

  • Alignment: 3 degrees of good


Pheasant Quail

The pheasant quail is a large green bird with a black-masked face and an imperious air. Its plump body and feeble wings are patterned with green and black, and its elaborately plumed tail, for which it is named, is a small cascade of velvet green and silver-grey.

  • Alignment: 3 degrees of good

Uses

  • No special uses

Special Notes

  • When the sun rises, they "slip away into the dark to find a place to sleep.
The widdershins sky starts to lighten as the sun peeks over the horizon.
The morning sun peeks out from behind a cloud.
A chequered quail arrives from the north.
The chequered quail slips away into the dark to find a place to sleep.
A duke's quail arrives from the north.
The duke's quail slips away into the dark to find a place to sleep.

Footnote

  1. General disc locations for the bestiary defined

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