The Chromatic Chord

A Bestiary of Caeldon

The Writers’ Guide to the Decachord

Jan Oetjen

Front Matter

1. Preface
2. What This Book Is For
3. How to Read This Book

A Bestiary of Caeldon

1. The Living World
2. Part I: Animals
   1. Air-Finches
   2. Badgers
   3. Bark Beetles
   4. Bats
   5. Bearded Vultures
   6. Black-Water Eels
   7. Blackfins
   8. Bough-Cats
   9. Brown Bears
   10. Cats
   11. Cattle
   12. Cistern Newts
   13. Congers
   14. Crag Eagles
   15. Crag Goats
   16. Crows and Ravens
   17. Deathwatch Beetles
   18. Deep-Witnesses
   19. Deer
   20. Devourers
   21. Dew Beetles
   22. Dogs and Hounds
   23. Doves
   24. Dragons
   25. Draught Moths
   26. Drowning Garden Fauna
   27. Dun Dogs
   28. Dust Runners
   29. Eels
   30. Egg-Takers
   31. Elk
   32. Farwings
   33. Fish
   34. Fog Serpents
   35. Fogbells
   36. Foxes
   37. Frogs and Toads
   38. Glove Spiders
   39. Glow-Flies
   40. Gluttons
   41. Great Catfish
   42. Grey Seals
   43. Grey Wolves
   44. Gut Worms
   45. Hares
   46. Hawks and Falcons
   47. Heath Adders
   48. Hedgehogs
   49. Herd Animals
   50. Herons and Cranes
   51. Horned Vipers
   52. Hornets
   53. Horses
   54. Insects and Bees
   55. Kelpshade Rays
   56. Kiln Newts
   57. Kingfishers
   58. Lampless Spiders
   59. Lampreys
   60. Leeches
   61. Lice and Fleas
   62. Liver Flukes
   63. Locusts
   64. Magpies
   65. Moles
   66. Mud Turtles
   67. Mules
   68. Octopus
   69. Orchard Dormice
   70. Ossuary Beetles
   71. Otters
   72. Owls
   73. Oxen
   74. Pack Animals
   75. Pale Cave Creatures
   76. Pan Hyenas
   77. Pan Shrimp
   78. Pass Bears
   79. Pigs
   80. Porpoises
   81. Poultry
   82. Rats and Vermin
   83. Ravine Cats
   84. River Crayfish
   85. Rock Conies
   86. Root-Borers
   87. Rose Waders
   88. Ruin Hogs
   89. Run-Followers
   90. Salt Foxes
   91. Scar Vultures
   92. Scorpions
   93. Seabirds
   94. Sheep
   95. Shelf Antelope
   96. Shellfish
   97. Shipworms
   98. Slow Returners
   99. Sparrows
   100. Squirrels
   101. Stair Kine
   102. Stone Cats
   103. Storks
   104. Storm Toads
   105. Sturgeon
   106. Sun Spiders
   107. Terrace Snails
   108. Thirstbacks
   109. Thorn Ants
   110. Threshold Crickets
   111. Ticks
   112. Trout
   113. Wall Lizards
   114. Water Snakes
   115. Weasels and Martens
   116. Well Grouse
   117. Whistlers
   118. Wild Asses
   119. Wild Boar
   120. Wild Geese
   121. Wild Kine
   122. Wind Cats
   123. Woodpeckers
   124. Wound Flies
3. Part II: Plants and Fungi
   1. Ageless Spring Flora
   2. Alders
   3. Ash-Thistle
   4. Barley
   5. Beans
   6. Beyonder Spores
   7. Bitterberry
   8. Black Mould
   9. Bloodgrass
   10. Bog Myrtle
   11. Bracken
   12. Canopy Lilies
   13. Carnivorous Plants
   14. Cellar Rot
   15. Chamber-Grey
   16. Dreamcress
   17. Driftmats
   18. Drowning Garden Flora
   19. Ember Moss
   20. Fen Pitchers
   21. Flax and Hemp
   22. Fodder
   23. Fold Saffron
   24. Foxfire
   25. Fractal Trees
   26. Fungus Beds
   27. Gallows Root
   28. Garden Crops
   29. Glare-Lilies
   30. Glasscup
   31. Glowing Fungi
   32. Gorge Gentian
   33. Grain
   34. Grain Spur
   35. Grass and Heath
   36. Great Trees and Groves
   37. Grey Poppy
   38. Groveknot
   39. Hall Canker
   40. Heart-Leaf
   41. Hemlock
   42. Herbs
   43. Hoodwort
   44. Kelp
   45. Living Root (Gloam)
   46. Lodewort
   47. Marker Lichen
   48. Moss and Lichen
   49. Nettles
   50. Nightshade
   51. Nuts
   52. Oaks
   53. Oats
   54. Omenfern
   55. Orchards and Fruit
   56. Pale Caps
   57. Quietbell
   58. Reed
   59. Ridge Pines
   60. Rime Lichen
   61. Ringcaps
   62. Root Crops
   63. Rot-Shelf
   64. Rubble Elder
   65. Salt Pines
   66. Saltbush
   67. Samphire
   68. Seagrass
   69. Skeletal Trees
   70. Sky Isles Flora
   71. Sourcrust
   72. Spore-Clouds
   73. Stagger-Vetch
   74. Stanchweed
   75. Storm Truffles
   76. Sundews
   77. Swollen Plants (the Blood River)
   78. Thirstroot
   79. Thorn and Thornwood
   80. Thornapple
   81. Timber Trees
   82. Trimmed Trees
   83. Twisted Trees
   84. Veilmint
   85. Verdant Expanse Flora
   86. Vines
   87. Wall Figs
   88. Weeping Caps
   89. Well Palms
   90. Wildflowers
   91. Willow
   92. Wind-Bent Trees
   93. Woad
   94. Xylos Mycelium
   95. Yews
4. Part III: Natives of the Planes
   1. Apex Predators (the Scourge)
   2. Apex-Born
   3. Arbiters
   4. Archivists (the Eternal Record)
   5. Ash-Turned
   6. Ash-Walkers
   7. Bleed-Beetles
   8. Blood-Hounds
   9. Bloomspawn
   10. Bone-Walkers
   11. Burners
   12. Cage-Larks
   13. Carrion-Kites
   14. Censors
   15. Chance Hares
   16. Chorus
   17. Cold-Stalkers
   18. Contract-Binders
   19. Cornerstones
   20. Current-Bound
   21. Dice-Lords
   22. Dream-Forms
   23. Drifters
   24. Drowse-Wings
   25. Dust-Eaters
   26. Dust-Striders
   27. Dust-Wyrms
   28. Echo-Statues
   29. Echo-Walkers
   30. Ember-Grubs
   31. Enforcers
   32. Entropy-Seekers
   33. Erasure Mites
   34. False Wells
   35. Fare Leeches
   36. Fear-Monsters
   37. Fire-Stalkers
   38. Flawless
   39. Flower-Stalkers
   40. Fog-Stalkers
   41. Forgers
   42. Fortune-Weavers
   43. Foundations
   44. Frost-Born
   45. Frost-Wolves
   46. Gale Jellies
   47. Gamblers
   48. Gilded
   49. Glacier-Drakes
   50. Grave-Keepers
   51. Gust-Callers
   52. Harmony-Beasts
   53. Hoar Owls
   54. Hollows
   55. Ice-Beasts
   56. Ice-Stalkers
   57. Illuminated
   58. Indexers
   59. Iron-Claws
   60. Keepers of Dust
   61. Kinspinners
   62. Last-Light Moths
   63. Last-Word Finches
   64. Life-Bearers
   65. Linked
   66. Load-Bearers
   67. Lucids
   68. Memory-Keepers
   69. Memory-Thieves
   70. Menders
   71. Midflight Birds
   72. Mossbacks
   73. Muffle-Wings
   74. Murk-Fangs
   75. Muse-Spirits
   76. Nightmares
   77. Oath-Breakers
   78. Ore-Worms
   79. The Overgrown
   80. Phantasms
   81. Preservers
   82. Sand-Stalkers
   83. Scavenger Beasts
   84. Scourge Tuskers
   85. Scourge-Born
   86. Scribes
   87. Scythe Mantises
   88. Seedwasps
   89. Singers
   90. Sky-Weavers
   91. Slag Eels
   92. The Stilled
   93. Stillhares
   94. Stonewrights
   95. Storm-Bringers
   96. Storm-Callers
   97. Strata Crabs
   98. Telltale Flies
   99. Thirst-Flies
   100. Tidesingers
   101. Tree-Men
   102. Truth-Seekers
   103. Unblemished Hinds
   104. Undertow Rays
   105. Unspoken
   106. Vaultstones
   107. Verdant
   108. Voice-Mimics
   109. Void-Stalkers
   110. Vow-Wrens
   111. Wave-Weavers
   112. Wayfinders
   113. Wayward Lights
   114. Wind-Walkers
   115. The Wordless
   116. Deepswells
   117. Quenchers
   118. Offnotes
5. Part IV: Natives of the Zones
   1. Air Eels
   2. Air-Goats
   3. Anvil Snails
   4. Architects
   5. Blood-Eels
   6. Blood-Spinners
   7. Chain-Binders
   8. Changers
   9. Chime-Bats
   10. Cinder-Moths
   11. Clearwater Shrimp
   12. Clockrats
   13. Cold-Salamanders
   14. Coolers
   15. Crystal Singers
   16. Door-Keepers
   17. Echo-Divers
   18. Echo-Readers
   19. Flesh-Eating Arachnids
   20. Floaters
   21. Foregone Hounds
   22. Frost-Burned
   23. Frost-Wyrms
   24. The Gaoler
   25. Gill-Folk
   26. Gloom-Leeches
   27. Gorge-Gnats
   28. Gust-Stalkers
   29. Hemophages
   30. Judges
   31. Lattice Guardians
   32. Lead Crabs
   33. Liar Toads
   34. Librarians
   35. Lightning Larks
   36. Lightning-Beasts
   37. The Lingerers
   38. Loop-Weavers
   39. Manifestations
   40. Margin-Worms
   41. Maze Mice
   42. Melody-Beasts
   43. Mirror Swans
   44. Muses
   45. Muster Rooks
   46. Mute-Walkers
   47. The Nameless
   48. Nightmare-Slayers
   49. Odds-Takers
   50. Path-Weavers
   51. Plot-Weavers
   52. Pressure-Wraiths
   53. Probability-Beasts
   54. Reflections
   55. Rimecoal Beetles
   56. River-Beasts
   57. Seers
   58. Shape-Shifters
   59. Silence-Bringers
   60. Silencers
   61. Sky-Walkers
   62. Sleep-Drinkers
   63. Smiths of the Deep
   64. Spring Carp
   65. Stone-Walkers
   66. Storm-Hawks
   67. Storm-Walkers
   68. Thieves of Tongue
   69. Thought-Steered Birds
   70. Thunder-Wyrms
   71. Twinned Crows
   72. Vault Spiders
   73. Voice-Catchers
   74. Water-Robed
   75. Waymoths
   76. Weight-Bearers
   77. Wind-Ghosts
   78. Wind-Listeners
   79. Wind-Weavers
   80. Year-Fish
6. Part V: Hosts of the Dark Entities
   1. Adoring Statues
   2. Ash-Wights
   3. Blank Hosts
   4. Bone Statues
   5. Bone-Choirs
   6. Burden-Stays
   7. Chorus-Hosts
   8. Courtiers (the Puppet Court)
   9. Facet Lice
   10. Flesh-Hosts
   11. The Grafted
   12. Hiss-Flies
   13. Hollow Flocks
   14. Kindless Broods
   15. Mist-Merged
   16. Noise-Hosts
   17. The Over-Mended
   18. Root-Hosts
   19. Rust Mites
   20. Rust-Hosts
   21. Seed-Hosts
   22. Shadow-Hosts
   23. Shard-Hosts
   24. The Slumbered
   25. Smoulder-Kept
   26. Stitch-Lings
   27. Stitch-Wraiths
   28. The Strayed
   29. The Sundered
   30. The Unweeping
   31. Watchers
   32. Wayturned
7. Part VI: Constructs
   1. Bronze Sentries
   2. The Clockwork
   3. Clockwork Guards
   4. Conjured Constructs
   5. Crow-Scarers
   6. Crystal-Golems
   7. Curators
   8. Familiars
   9. Field Bulwarks
   10. The Guardian Host
   11. Guardians (the Ageless Spring)
   12. Hunger Engines
   13. Ice-Shards
   14. Ill-Called
   15. Night-Markers
   16. Predecessor-Frames
   17. Rebinders
   18. The Record-Engine
   19. Sketch-Soldiers
   20. Slag-Tenders
   21. Grey Clerks
   22. Turnkeys
   23. Ward-Hounds
8. Part VII: The Risen Dead
   1. The Anchored
   2. Bridge-Dead
   3. Burst-Dead
   4. Cairn-Wakers
   5. The Choked
   6. The Clock-Keeper
   7. Crossroad Hanged
   8. The Drowned Court
   9. The Forgotten (the Eternal Record)
   10. Fused Dead
   11. Grey Crews
   12. Hostile Remnants
   13. Marrow Sentinels
   14. The Old Hunt
   15. Path-Echoes
   16. Pit-Wakers
   17. Possessing Ancestors
   18. Raised Corpses
   19. Rattlecut Dead
   20. The River-Given
   21. Salt-Kept
   22. Seal-Knockers
   23. Self-Raised
   24. Surface-Walkers
   25. The Taken
   26. The Unfinished
   27. The Unreturned
   28. Unsworn Dead
   29. The Warmed
   30. Word-Generals
9. Part VIII: Other Beings
   1. The Changed Living
10. Part IX: Touched Beasts
    1. Brace-Gnawers
    2. Coldcoat Wolves
    3. Glassback Lizards
    4. Greenharts
    5. Ill-Hatched
    6. Ley Moles
    7. Skin-Lost
    8. Slip-Foxes
    9. Springwater Herds
    10. Spurred Hounds
    11. Weather Goats

Back Matter

1. A. A Short Chronology
2. B. Glossary
3. Index
4. C. Licence