List of Animals of The Edge Chronicles - B

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• Banderbear - Banderbears are similar to bears in our world. Though very large and intimidating, they are actually peaceful creatures. They have a very thick coat of fur which appears green, but this is actually because it is covered with moss. Banderbears have very large tusks growing out of the bottom jaw of their mouth. They lurk in the Deepwoods, and are solitary creatures, although they have regular clan meetings known as convocations, allowing only their kind. Although one banderbear seldom meets another, they keep in contact by yodelling to one another at night, sharing every detail of their lives. Notable banderbears include Hubble of the Galerider and Stormchaser, the unnamed banderbear who befriends Twig in Beyond the Deepwoods, Goom and the banderbears who Rook befriends. Also, in the 'Rook Barkwater' series, the more notable Banderbears that Rook himself befriended are 'Weeg', 'Moleen', 'Wuralo' and Rook's closest friend 'Wumeru'. 'Wumeru's' name translates into She with chipped tusk who walks in moonlight. Rook can understand the language of the Banderbears after becoming best friends with Wumeru in The Last of the Sky Pirates.
• Barkelves - These are mentioned in Stormchaser, when the character Screed remembers his earlier conquests: As a rule, the travellers who passed his way journeyed in groups of their own kind. A gang of darkridge goblins, a gaggle of barkelves. .. It is assumed that barkelves are relations of oakelves.
• Barkslug - Twig makes a reference to them in Beyond the Deepwoods, on page 74 when speaking to the gloamglozer, disguised as a slaughterer. "And for stuck-up slaughterers who treat you like a hero one minute and a barkslug the next!" They are mentioned many times as items of contempt.
• Barkworm - They are mentioned in Midnight Over Sanctaphrax as minor pests that eat into old books and scrolls: "I've watched you sit there for hours, pouring over some scrap of bark, half eaten by woodmoths and barkworms. .." The word also seems to be used as the Edge's version of the Earth expression "bookworm", as all paper is made from bark.
• Black-dwarf - In Stormchaser, Twig comes across all sorts of creatures in the Bloodoak Tavern: There were flat-head and hammer-head goblins. ....black-dwarfs and red-dwarfs. .. Also in the Immortals

• Blatt-prawn - Edible prawns found in the Great Lakes in the Deepwoods.
• Bloaterfish - Edible fish found in the Great Lakes in the Deepwoods.
• Blood-beetle - A presumably deep red type of beetle found in the Deepwoods used for making dyes and paints.
• Blood-Oak Tree - A carnivorous tree which captures its vitims using

its colour changing snake like vines, then drags them into its mouth at the top of the tree. Able to consome large animals such as Hammel horns.

• Blood-red (Rogue) glister - A large beast featured in The Curse of the Gloamglozer, it is formless and forever changing shape. Like normal glisters, it feeds off of strong emotions, but this larger variety doesn't stop until the victim is sucked dry. It is about 6 feet tall.
• Blunderhead - Supposedly a race of goblin mentioned by Garble the Hunter in Beyond the Deepwoods.
• Brieve - A type of creature, possibly a fish, found in the Great Lakes in the Deepwoods.
• Brogtroll - Brogtrolls are extremely large and strong creatures, with large drooping noses, scraggly hair, and warty skin. Most Brogtrolls are very dumb and quite forgetful. Their strength and apparent lack of morals mean they usually end up as the "dumb muscle" of any gang or the obedient heavy-lifter of a sky-ship crew.
• Bushnymph - A creature mentioned only once in Beyond the Deepwoods: And with that he drifted off to sleep, unaware that at that moment, the caterbird was otherwise engaged with a family of bushnymphs, many, many miles away.