FLORA AND FAUNA

Songs of the Sidhe by David Ross

Although domesticated breeds are rarer in Faerie, many species long dead to the mortal world survive in its far flung reaches. Most animals, plants, and vermin in Faerie behave much like they do elsewhere in the Mortal Coil, but are generally more effective at what they do, growing more bountifully, reproducing more plentifully, killing prey more quickly, evading capture more impressively, and so on. Mightier breeds of the same animals abound (use the advanced creature simple template to represent them), along with more dire animals and behemoths. Legendary animals and awakened animals also appear with some frequency. The result is that the balance of nature is not dramatically different within Faerie, but when the inhabitants of one planar layer interacts with those from another, the creatures from deeper in the Otherworld tend to trump their more ordinary brethren. Occasionally, the magical dangers of Faerie pose a threat to more ordinary plants and animals, but many otherworldly breeds have evolved natural resistance to their effects.