
By Peter May
The concluding a part of the Lewis Trilogy. Fin Macleod, now head of protection on a privately owned Lewis property, is charged with investigating a spate of unlawful game-hunting occurring at the island...
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A single fiery tail feather can light up an entire room. It grazes in the garden of its owner, Tzar Dalmet, but at night it sometimes sneaks into the nearby orchard of Tzar Vyslav Andronovich to steal his golden apples of youth, beauty, and immortality. It is considered to be the Russian Phoenix, and its origin may likewise have been in Bird of Paradise skins. Fire-Drakes—Great, firebreathing, bat-winged Dragons inhabiting marshes in the British Isles and mountain caverns of northern Europe, where they guard hordes of treasure.
Dragon—A gigantic reptilian creature, frequently possessing bat-like wings and fiery breath. Some are capable of human speech. There are many varieties, living in all the Elements: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. Wingless, legless dragons are called Lindorms, Wyrms, or Wyrms. Those with legs but no wings are called Drakes. A Dragon with two limbs and two wings is called a Wyvern. Dragons with feathery rather than leathery wings are called Amphiteres. Dragons exist in cultures the world over. A Wizard’s Bestiary 36 Eastern Dragons tend to be wise and benevolent creatures of clouds, rain, and bodies of water.
See Black Bird of Chernobyl, Man-Dragon, Owlman. Freshwater Octopus—Although there are no known species of cephalopods able to live in fresh water, there have been numerous reports of octopus-like creatures hailing from lakes in Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, as well as in the monster-infested Ohio River. They are always described as being “ugly,” grey in color, and about 3 feet long. They seem similar to Octopus burryi and Octopus filosus/hummelinki. R. ” See Devil’s Lake Monster, Oklahoma Octopus.