Mystical Creatures

Mystical Creatures are sentient, non-human life forms with a strong magical nature. Many of them can interbreed with humans and produce variable fractals.

Dragons, Unicorns, Fairies, Centaurs, Orcs, and their derivations, and many others. Lycanthropes are also considered to be Mystical Creatures.

History

Little is known about mystical creatures during Antiquity, though Dragons are presumed to have presumed to have been teachers to humans during that time.

Becuase no human records persist before the Age of Darkness, knowledge of Mystical Creatures first began during that time. This is when the term was coined and most interactions began. The legends and myths about the different mystical creatures probably evolved during this time.

By the Mage Wars, many types of mystical creatures were being actively hunted for different pieces of their anatomy, which were used as ritual components in spellcasting. In addition to cuasing most species of mystical creatures to largely fear and avoid humans, this had a significant impact on their numbers.

By the end of the Mage Wars, most populations of mystical creatures had withdrawn to less human-populated portions of the verse, with some species becoming so rare they faded into myth.

The exception, of course, being the dragons, who remained visible and protective of their lands.