More beasties of the Lightning Country.

[Kanade]

Poison Shuriken frogs
Species Name: Poison Shuriken frog
Method of Movement: Quadruped, swim/hop
Size range: 3-12 centimeters
Daily activity cycle: Nocturnal
Favored climate: Cold/wet
Favored terrain: Mountain runoff streams
Range of Activity: Lightning country, Snow country, northern Earth country.
Diet: Insectivore
Physical Description: Poison shuriken frogs are named after their deadly toxin, able to kill a full grown water bison in under half a minute. They live in areas where they can naturally camouflage with their environment. There are many different colorations to the poison shuriken frogs, but most of them look like particularly sharp, and wet river rocks. They are poisonous to the touch, and have a hyrdophobic body which allows for them to walk and hop through the water with relative ease.
Distinct traits: They have a poison which is sought after by the most adept poisoners throughout the shinobi world. They are also sought after for the gland under their stomachs which is said to contain a cure-all for most ailments, such as headaches, gastro-intestinal diseases, seizures, and other mild ailments. The problem being, that their poison is so toxic that handling one without the proper care can get a ninja killed while trying to harvest from said glands. They also can eject their poison from a sac on their forehead which opens up and can be ejected up to two meters away at a particularly persistent irritant.
Threat: C-B
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Snow Taipan
Species Name: Taipan arctus
Method of Movement: Slither
Size range: able to grow up to 2 meters long
Daily activity cycle: Nocturnal
Favored climate: Frigid
Favored terrain: Mountains
Range of Activity: Lightning country, Snow country, Northern Earth country
Diet: Carnivore
Physical Description: The Snow Taipan is as white as the newfallen snow in the winter, and in the summer it takes on the color of river rocks as it tries to find its preferred prey, the Poison Shuriken Frog. The Snow Taipan is one of the toughest snakes out there, able to take a blow from a sword to the base of its neck with little to no damage, it is also one of the most venomous snakes in the shinobi world.
Distinct traits: The venom that the Snow Taipan secretes when biting is able to, in one drop, paralyze all functions, leading to acute hypoxia, instant cardiac arrest, and major failure to all organs. The bite, should the snake have had no teeth still leaves a rotting wound which festers after only a couple of days, leading to eventual death from decay and gangrene. The Carterius gland, named after Santori Carterius, secretes the antidote for the poison that the poison shuriken frogs secrete on their skin.
Threat: B-A
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Snow badger
Species Name: Badgerurus Arcticticus
Method of Movement: Quadrupedal
Size range: capable of growing up to 4 meters in length and 1 meter at the shoulder.
Daily activity cycle: Nocturnal
Favored climate: Arctic tundra, anywhere the Arctic Leopard is to be found.
Favored terrain: Mountains, below the earth
Range of Activity: Lightning country, Snow country, Northern Earth country.
Diet: Omnivorous
Physical Description: The biggest natural iteration of the badger that has been discovered in the wild of the shinobi world, this massive brute is the only predator of the dreaded Arctic Leopard. Its white over-coat on the top with its coal-black underbelly and white eyes lend it to be a ghostly incarnation of the honey-badger. It burrows deep into the Arctic leopards dens, along with anything that it might sniff out and rips apart anything that is foolish enough to get in its way with its razor sharp claws and teeth, said to be capable of rending even chakra-infused steel apart.
Distinct traits: This animal, along with being a rough and tough contender, with a coarse hide that is able to deflect most bladed blows, is also completely immune to the venom of the Snow Taipan, the poison shinobi frog, and most other poisons. It simply goes into a state of torpor when it encounters these and it urinates the venom out. The badger is said to be one of the strongest animals out there, and has been known to take a direct hit from a lightning bolt with a shrug and move on.
Threat: S
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The deep-voiced man spider
Species Name: 8 legged skittering snow-bastard
Method of Movement: Octo-ped
Size range: .5-2 meters
Daily activity cycle: Diurnal
Favored climate: Arctic settings, high elenvation settings.
Favored terrain: Mountains, near trees, in deep caves.
Range of Activity: Lightning country, Snow Country, Northern Earth Country.
Diet: Insectivore, Carnivore
Physical Description: an 8 legged machine of death, this spider has chiton that changes colors based on the time of day and it is actually a reaction based on the UV intake through its special eye on the top of its head. It can be as dark as pitch and as white as snow depending on the amount of sunlight. These make very good ambush predators, and do not have a hair on their chitonous bodies.
Distinct traits: Coined for having necrotic bites, a strength that would be able to take down a bull elk, and thread that even Katon of rank C or below doesn’t even damage, these brutes are able to muscle their way in a world dominated by larger animals by their sheer will to live. They hunt in packs of 2-10 spiders, and will kill and eat anything that strays too close to their nest. They breed once every ten years, and their brood produces 1000-3000 spiderlings which go to find their own prey.
Threat: A
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Lightning Flies
Species Name: Insectus Electrus
Method of Movement: Flight
Size range: 1-10 cm
Daily activity cycle: Nocturnal
Favored climate: Extreme cold/dry climates unless breeding, then cold wet climates.
Favored terrain: Mountains
Range of Activity: Lightning Country, Snow Country, Northern earth country.
Diet: Herbivore, sometimes insecitivore
Physical Description: A fly which has 6 legs, and is a pale yellow, it is iridescent at night, and contains a small amount of Raiton chakra. When more than 100 of them gather in a particular place they can create a small lightning bolt which arcs to the ground every 5 seconds. Their wings sound like a hummingbirds when they fly.
Distinct traits: When a single fly has been eaten or attacked by a predator they swarm and electocute the thing to death and then feed on its carcass for spite. They’re usually docile and will even land on Ninja to light their way. Sometimes they can be lured into a lantern by flowers or by honey from honey bees and their brightness is solely dependent upon their hunger. A fully satiated lightning fly will illuminate up to a 5 meter radius around it.
Threat: D normally, B when miffed.
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Arcic Leopard
Species Name: Felus Largus Arctus
Method of Movement: Quadruped
Size range: 3-6 meters long, 2-4 meters tall at the shoulder
Daily activity cycle: Diurnal
Favored climate: Cold
Favored terrain: Mountains, Arctic, subarctic
Range of Activity: Lightning country, Snow country, Northern Earth country.
Diet: Carnivore
Physical Description:A sleek snowy white, this animal has 10 hairs per follicle which puts it at the most plush of all the creatures of the land of lightning. The arctic leopard isn’t as cuddly as one might think though, as it is extremely territorial and loyal to its offspring and mate. They hunt in prides much as a lion does, rather than being lonely, which makes them all the more formidable. They are even courageous enough to die while their family gets away from the Snow Badgers, its only natural predator.
Distinct traits: While the Arctic leopard does have fur on its whole body, it is to keep it insulated when it moves down from the arctic into the subarctic or even for very rare and short durations into the more temperate climes against the warmth. The Arctic leopard is endothermic, but has a body temperature of -46 degrees celsius and its blood has been used in many different tonics to make sure that shinobi stay cool in the hottest of desserts. For this, and their furs, they are highly sought after, but given wide berth by any shinobi who values their life. They are capable of taking down all but the Snow Badgers with ease. Their bite is said to leave instantaneous and irreparable frost bite if left untreated for longer than an hour.
Threat: S to S+ Danger! Do not Engage!
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Tundra bear
Species Name: Ursus Tundrus
Method of Movement: Partially bipedal, Partially quadrupedal
Size range: 3-12 meters long when quadrupedal and 4-7 meters tall at the shoulder when quadrupedal
Daily activity cycle: Diurnal
Favored climate: Cold, like frigid.
Favored terrain: Mountains, tundra, snow.
Range of Activity: Lightning country, Snow country, Northern Earth country.
Diet: Omnivore
Physical Description: The king of bears, this animal stands shoulder to shoulder with no one. Its powerful head is capable of snapping trees, and when its fur is white and its eyes are blue in the winter it has a savage aggressive nature, when its fur is brown and its eyes are a tawny red, its almost as docile as a lamb when unprovoked.
Distinct traits: Capable of breaking a tree with ease, it eats sap and the Frigid Cod which it loves to snack on in the tundra. The Frigid cod are found beneath the ice and the bear is able to break this with its huge claws, burrowing through solid ice that is as tough as tungsten steel with relative ease. It has a black nose and black claws, which are all that stand out in the winter when they are the most dangerous.
Threat: B-S dependent upon age
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Frigid Cod
Species Name: Gadus Frigidus
Method of Movement: Swimming
Size range: up to 4 meters long
Daily activity cycle: Diurnal
Favored climate: Cold
Favored terrain: Snowy, arctic, Icey terrain
Range of Activity: Lightning Country, Snow Country, Northern Earth Country.
Diet: Omnivorous
Physical Description: A white fish with a distinctive iridescent blue fin and cheeks, the Frigid Cod is said to be the fisherman’s delight.
Distinct traits: There are rumors that this fish can swim through any medium if it is water, which has led to fish stories that say that fishermen have seen blue fins take off through a newly created drift of snow, or the arctic fog being lit up by a thousand iridescent blue cheeks and dorsal fins of Frigid cod. All this author knows is: they’re delicious with lemon.
Threat: D
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Noomish
Species Name: Egotus splendiforous Ferrus tarandus eogroenlandicus
Method of Movement: Quadrupedal
Size range: 3-15 meters tall at the shoulder, the biggest one recorded was said to be more than 20 meters in length.
Daily activity cycle: Diurnal
Favored climate: Arctic
Favored terrain: Mountainous, tundra
Range of Activity: Lightning country, Snow Country, Northern Earth Country.
Diet: Herbivore
Physical Description: Capable of crossing even the deepest rivers while touching bottom, these giants on stilts have a rack of antlers that make them the king of the deer. They’re called Noomish beacuse they’re easily tamed, horse-like in their bone structure, but have huge antlered heads. They can break a tree in a pinch with their magnificent antlers, and their calls can be heard a mile away.
Distinct traits: Able to leap most buildings in a single bound these are the fastest of the tundra land-animals. When full grown, they usually are able to evade any predator unless it be ambush predator or a stamina predator.
Threat: D
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Arctic Bear-seal
Species Name: Pennipedia Arctus Ursus Felidus Primus
Method of Movement: Floppy movement on land, graceful swimmer.
Size range: up to 6 meters long
Daily activity cycle: Nocturnal
Favored climate: Arctic
Favored terrain: Arctic coastal and river areas
Range of Activity: Lightning Country, Snow country, Northern Earth Country.
Diet: Carnivore
Physical Description: Large seals with tusks that face upward and a horn like a narwhal, these carnivores are all bite and no bark. Their bark is so deep that it can be felt and sounds like a detonation rather than anything. It is also in such a low register that most humans are not able to hear it with their own ears. The pups make a loud growling noise when they feel threatened and their movements shake the ice when they’re combatant with one another. They range from grey to an almost bluish white.
Distinct traits: Besides their tusks and narwhal like protrusion (also a tusk) they have claws on their front fins which they use to burrow into the ice. They also have a sting on their tail in which they carry a neurotoxin able to kill some whales, which they love to feast upon. That and Frigid Cod.
Threat: B-S dependent upon medium.
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Kyoukan Temple Foxes
Species Name: Canus vulpus Regis
Method of Movement: Quadruped
Size range: up to 3 meters in length
Daily activity cycle: Mostly Diurnal
Favored climate: Cold, warm, temperate.
Favored terrain: Mountains, valleys.
Range of Activity: Lightning country, around shinto temples.
Diet: Carnivore
Physical Description: Their fur a deep red in autumn, a snowy white in winter, a burnished brown in spring and a light tan in summer, these foxes shed like crazy and are one of the most domesticable beasts that one can befriend that are chakra-sensitive. It isn’t known what came first the Kyoukan or the Kyoukan Temple Foxes, but the foxes are said to form bonds for life, bring cubs to Kyoukan family members that do not have companions, and fiercely protect temples from invaders should they need to.
Distinct traits: Kyoukan foxes, being chakra sensitive have been known to sniff out high chakra density areas, or areas that would make great temple site locations. They are also able to, when they rub on eachother create a static charge enough to partially desensitize any person who wishes to harm them, along with being a ferocious fox.
Threat: D-S dependent upon training.
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