List of SLAY creatures

The following entry is a list of creatures from SLAY, a serial podcast created and written by Scott Sigler.

Dangerous Creatures

Cockeye

Magical beings with one oversized eye that can see enlightened beings at long distances and through solid materials. Cockeyes are the size of domestic dogs and look like a combination between a sea urchin and a

Description in context

The creature came up to Dante’s hip. It had a floppy comb — reminiscent of a rooster’s, hence the name — which was slathered in thick, gleaming slime, sweat, puss, or a combination of the three. The same foul substance matted what few downy feathers clung to its long body, which resembled a buzzard neck coated in rot. No feet for this beast — it moved about on eight stubby tentacles that looked like fat cow tongues. Atop that neck and below the comb was one eye squinted so shut the wrinkled lids looked like the pursed lips of an angry old woman. The other eye was beachball-big, constantly trembling, lined with angry red veins, and had a black iris the size of a dinner plate.

Crattlebats

Serpent-like creatures with two sets of wings and large, sharp talons. Summoned by Oleus Oakbeard and others.

Description in context

Billy heard a screeching from above, but it was faint, like it was close and yet worlds away. He glanced up, saw large birds, but they weren’t just birds. They had overlays, just like Pragman’s six-shooters, those women’s swords, and the crockobear. The overlay glimmered and gleamed in the sun. Long, snake-like bodies. Two sets of wings, one near their head, and a second, smaller set, on their long tail. Six of the creatures. No… seven.

Diamortuga

A 500-pound tortoise with a diamond-hard shell. Diamortugas have longer legs proportionally than a normal tortoise. They necks can extend to three times their body length.

Dreamgaunt

A monster that makes people have specific nightmares. Dreamgaunts often find work causing specific fear-based dreams so that particular fibers can be harvested via hypodermic needles injected into their bodies.

Description in context More fingers extended from the wicker basket. Six, in total, moving like jointed tentacles, clustered close together and pointing forward like the tentacles of a squid. They grabbed Gabriella’s feet and pulled. The thing hauled itself out of the basket, the six gray fingers and a reddish body the size of a fist… and a tail, soft and vile, dotted with yellow mold and oozing, open sores.

Hound

A creature that can sniff out trails left by magical entities, and normal scent-trails followable by animals like wolves and hunting dogs.

Description in context

Pragman wasn’t alone. He had a huge dog on a leash, at least tow-hundred pounds of animal, only it wasn’t a dog, Billy knew. Just like with the six-shooter, a dream-like image covered the dog, seemed to occupy up the same space. He didn’t know what it was, had never seen the like — a freakish cross between a crocodile and a small bear, maybe.

Jerboas

Shadowy, man-sized creatures with long ears that listen for people talking about enlightened topics, such as magic and monsters Jerboas decide if someone knows too much; if so, they turn that person into shadow and eat them.

Description in context: A crunching cacophony, like bricks being smashed by a steamroller. The long-eared shadows started to peel off the walls. Long, bone-thin shadow-legs, dark as storm clouds, stepped into the alley. Shadow-bodies followed. Skinny shadow-tails swished. Six creatures, black and growing blacker, each about Billy’s size if you didn’t count the long, wide ears that rose up and back. Eyes formed — heavy spots of deep red. Mouths appeared and opened — maws of glowing orange, rimmed by metallic teeth that gleamed like wet daggers. Billy felt the heat of their breath, like silent hairdryers blowing his way.

Mudwuggies

An elemental zombie that is basically half rotted human, and half swamp mud.

Ooozing Guffins

Creatures with a stench so bad it makes people vomit. However, oozing guffins are incredible chess players, so many people will endure the stink in order to play them.

Umakaten

A strong demon with spiky, porcupine-like natural armor and long claws.

Description in SLAY 1

Hulking, long arms and legs covered in mismatched, piecemeal armor gathered from the corpses of the dozen Rixators it had killed over the years. The beast’s war hammer smashing home, breaking bones, sending her tumbling.

Uratadant

A tarantula-like spider with dragonfly-ish wings. Uratedants weighs five to ten pounds, have a wingspan of two feet and a leg span of three feet. The name comes from a rough translation of an ancient Hindi word: "Urate" meaning flying, and "Dant" meaning "fangs." The creature's name is derived from "flying fangs."

Humanoids

Skultean

Gorilla-like bipeds with thick, bony faces that are imbued with meshwork Skulteans can ignore many attacks, and absorb significant damage from the attacks that get through. Their brain is in the base of their long neck, not in their head.

Thuengol

Bipedal, intelligent creatures that work in packs, often as hired enforcers for criminal operations. They are distant kin of orcs and kobolds. Thutengols are known for using human firearms and melee weapons.

Description in context': Free floss. A great idea. There were chunks of shredded meat — and maybe some spinach — stuck in Amethysta’s sharp yellow teeth. That and her puckered, enamel-dotted, puke-gray skin made her look like an undead hybrid of human and gecko.

Medical Organisms

Carofactors

Worm-like creatures that can repair internal wounds. Carofactors burrow into th wound and heal a person from the inside.

Description in context: Magda stood. Something writhed in her hands, something maybe a foot long, mottled and grayish-pink, the color of a zombie on TV. A worm of some kind? Maybe, if that worm came from someone’s nightmare.

Fouskálas

Magical leaches used to treat blisters, burns, and to counter many kinds of poison.