Creatures of the Two Kingdoms

Many animals on the plains and in the desert are native to the Two Kingdoms, known in other lands only because of the luxurious pelts traded in the marketplace. On the plains, the most common creatures are Two Kingdoms lions (great golden beasts with white manes), gazelles, zebras, blink dogs, camelopards (a variety of giraffe), and small, beautiful antelopes called calopi. Jungle areas include such wildlife as alligators, giant snakes, lizards, stirges, and rare tribes of lizardfolk. In the desert, one finds camels, sand eels, basilisks, behirs, wild horses, scorpions, and buzzards. In the mountains, giant frilled lizards known as razorscales prowl next to mountain lions, wild goats, dragonnes, and gnolls.  Gnolls are the most common monsters in the eastern portion of the Two Kingdoms, and arguably the most dangerous.  Gnolls are feared and reviled throughout the land (an opinion tinged with not a bit of xenophobia regarding Ndata-mbanye, widely considered their homeland), but the Dealmakers’ open trade policy means that gnolls may freely enter the city of Zep Tepi, so long as they come to barter and behave themselves.