List of Animals of The Edge Chronicles - R

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• Ratbird - Ratbirds are small rodent creatures that live in Sky Pirate ships. They are creatures to look to when abandoning ship, for only when a ship is truly doomed do they fly off. It is also mentioned in Winter Knights that even when a ratbird is taken away from its home ship they can find their way back again. They can be used as messengers in this sense.
• Razorflit - A small flying creature found in the Deepwoods.
• Red-dwarf - In Stormchaser, the character Twig comes across all sorts of creatures in the Bloodoak Tavern: There were flat-head and hammer-head goblins. ....black-dwarfs and red-dwarfs. .. In the lost barkscrolls, they are said to have come from the nightwoods beyond the thorn forest, also known as waif country
• Reed-eel - Featured in Midnight Over Sanctaphrax and mentioned briefly in some of the others. They resemble a patch of reeds, thin and green, but are actually biological organisms, with small yellow eyes and a cluster of suckers, laid out like the heads on a bouquet of flowers. They claimed the life of Spooler, Twig's oakelf crewmember, in Midnight Over Sanctaphrax
• Resin-grub - Possibly similar to maggots or beetle-larvae, they live in and on the resin of ironwood trees, and are one of the main foods for fromps.
• Rock demon - Terrifying mutant beasts, resembling a huge, spiny Rotsucker. They inhabit a ravine in the shadow of the new Sanctaphrax Rock. Orbix Xaxis is known to have sacrificed Librarians and prisoners to these monsters. It is possible that they mutated from rotsuckers. In Vox, they end the Battle of the Great Library between the goblins and shrykes by devouring both sides.
• Rock-oyster - Oysters found in the Great Lakes in the Deepwoods.
• Rotsucker - Rotsuckers are scavengers that prey on those foolish enough to sleep in a vacant Caterbird cocoon (though usually not Oakelves). The Rotsucker first fills the cocoon with corrosive acids, then seals the opening with a hardening agent present in glands of the skin. The prisoner initially may struggle, but ultimately gives up and decomposes into a thick, viscous liquid. The Rotsucker then breaks in and drinks the "stew". Interestingly, a Rotsucker appears to be intelligent on a more-than-instinctive level; it holds long soliloquies in its mind, though it is presumably incapable of verbal speech. Twig is ensnared by a Rotsucker as he sleeps in a Caterbird cocoon in Beyond The Deepwoods.
• Rogue glister - A creature created by the First Scholars who managed to capture and give "life" to a glister in the Ancient Laboratory. The rogue glister is a massive, blood-red creature that makes a snuffling sound as it moves. It follows the scent of its victims' fear, probes them through its eyeballs, and feeds on their emotions and feelings until they are left devoid of energy and feeling, at which point they lose the instinct to stay alive, stop breathing, and then die. Like all glisters, it is sensitive to Chine, the earth collected from the banks of Riverrise, and suffers burns if it comes into contact with it.
• Rubble ghoul - Creatures that lived in Screetown during the Second Age of Flight which retain food by sucking all moisture out of their victims. Hover Tincture, the antidote to the venom of a hoverworm, is extremely poisonous to rubble ghouls. Rook Barkwater is attacked by one in Vox.