The Land-Shapers
Asag in the mountains and Namazu under the islands and the rainbow serpent carving rivers show five traditions independently arriving at the same geological intuition that the land is the record of a body's passage. This family is the bestiary's tectonic school. Its members do not live in the terrain so much as explain it.
What binds them
- Terrain shaping · 10 of them
- Knowledge bestowal · 7 of them
- Colossal terrain shaping giant · 5 of them
- Culture bringer teaches crafts · 4 of them
- Tunnels through earth creating rivers and valleys · 4 of them
- Causes natural disasters · 3 of them
- Deep resonant calls for long distance communication · 2 of them
- Iron hard armored scales · 2 of them
Drawn from 8 groups of traditions: Middle Eastern 3 · Oceanian 3 · South American 3 · European 3 · None 2 · North American Indigenous 2 · Southeast Asian 1 · Other 1
18 members
- Altamaha-ha
- Amaru
- Antero Vipunen
- Apkallu
- Asag
- Azazel
- Bochica
- Bonnacon
- Damballa
- Glooscap
- Graeae
- Gurangatch
- Horomatangi
- Maira
- Rainbow Serpent
- Sinlap
- Unhcegila
- Whowie
Resemblance is not descent; descent is drawn only as the gold lines on the constellation. All families.