Creatures of Kyralia
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Australian author Trudi Canavan is known for renaming real-life creatures as well as inventing ones similar but not identical to existing ones. Below is a list of common creatures in Canavan's popular fantasy world, Kyralia.
- aga moth: pest that eat clothing
- anyi: sea mammal with small spines
- ceryni: small rat-like rodent (corresponds approximately to mouse)
- enka: horned domestic animal, bred for meat (corresponds approximately to cattle)
- eyoma: sea leech
- faren: general term for arachnids
- gorin: large domestic animal used for food and to haul boats and wagons (corresponds approximately to donkey)
- harrel: small domestic animal bred for meat (corresponds approximately to rabbit)
- inava: insect believed to bestow good luck
- limek: wild predatory dog (corresponds approximately to wolf)
- mullook: wild nocturnal bird (corresponds approximately to owl)
- rassook: domestic bird used for meat and feathers
- ravi: rodent, larger than ceryni (corresponds approximately to rat)
- reber: domestic animal, bred for wool and meat (corresponds approximately to sheep)
- sapfly: woodland insect
- sevli: poisonous lizard
- squimp: squirrel-like creature that steals food
- yeel: small domesticated breed of Limek used for tracking (corresponds approximately to dog)
- zill: small, intelligent mammal sometimes kept as a pet (corresponds approximately to cat)
