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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Hey happy #freerpgday everyone! Got a special cat to share that uses light-reflecting iriophores in its fur to stealthily hunt in the woods. you can pick up its free DnD5e rules at www.patreon.com/solkesh! #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #dnd #creaturedesign #creature #ttrpg #cat#free

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This nautilus uses its shell and tentacles to dig through the ocean floor for mollusks and crustaceans to pull into its mouth. Its siphon sending it spinning into solid rock or prey. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #rpg #dnd #dungeonsanddragons ##creaturedesign #ttrpg #conceptart

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

A small rodent that hops and scurries in the tall grasses of the Farplains with long ears that connect for a near seamless loop to hear more than most creatures could ever hope to #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #mouse #dungeons&dragons #creaturedesign

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Inspired by the archer fish, and simply wanting to draw another crabstrosity, I loved the idea of a group of large crustaceans wadding water off the island's coast and knocking birds out of the sky. #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #creaturedesign #creature

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I spent most of saturday sketching in a cafe, and only such a nice calm use of the day could inspire this skyelarx basking in the sun. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #tabletopgaming #creaturedesign #creature #ttrpg #conceptart #fox

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Eolved from catfish, it lost its need to see eons ago as sensitive barbels rise from its snout to feel the tremor and electric vibrations of its watery home around it #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #dungeonsanddragons #creaturedesign #creature #ttrpg #conceptart #fish #fishing

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Sol'Kesh's waters are about to get a lot more dangerous as we near the summer months with two releases that dwell beneath the surface. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #dungeonsanddragon #tabletopgaming #creaturedesign #ttrpg #conceptart #fish #catfish #crustacean

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This baby-bjorn essentially allows a Traveler to care for and command a critter to attack, and while its used for the beasts of Sol'Kesh...nothing is stopping you from putting a goblin in there. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #solkesh #ttrpg

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The omaterssum is on the verge of extinction, with a lower than survivable birthrate Many of the females of their species quell their maternal instincts by adopting wayward young #bestiary #speculativeevolution #art #rpg #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #solkesh #creaturedesign #ttrpg #conceptart #possum

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Had a lot of fun with this one a while back by mimicking the pose of a bird and applying it to the body form of a locust. Turned out to be a pretty cool way to try out convergent evolution! #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #creaturedesign #ttrpg #conceptart #locust #specevo

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It's not a surprise that painting bones and exoskeletons are my happy place, that might be why this bestiary has so many bugs. So this weapon was just pure happiness to draw. #bestiary #fantasy #art #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #solkesh #ttrpg #conceptart #weapon #scythe

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

When the tide lowers, this terrestrial squid drags itself out of the surf to pluck fish and crustaceans trapped in the tidal pools that are left behind #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #creaturedesign #creature #ttrpg #conceptart #cephalopod

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TCG Bling @tcgbling.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Get your favorite creature token by the amazing @terrymaranda.bsky.social Check out his DnD 5e bestiary on Patreon and support real artists! Get these tokens at 👉 tcgbling.com/terry_maranda #token #mtgtoken #magicthegathering #tcg #tradingcards #creature #dnd #bestiary

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Hunting solo over the flat lands in search of straggling herd animals, lifting them off the ground to feast upon in the high boughs of the nearby Wealdwoods. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #rpg #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #creaturedesign #creature #ttrpg #conceptart #dragonfly

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The tyrandroth, hunting solo over the flat lands in search of straggling herd animal And the cerrophol crawls out of the waves and to search the tidal pools along the Strands for stray fish to spear and feast upon #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A whip-scorpion evolved arachnid lies in wait in the Farplains fields, raising its flower-like metasomal segments to attract pollinators, before attacking them with a crescendo of needle stabs. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #conceptart

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Sometimes you just need a shovel -- I'm enjoying more tool based item creation for the bestiary. I think these will allow Travelers to live off the land more. Plus this one has a bonus ability to throw dirt in an enemies eyes! #fantasy #art #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #loot

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is the Korruk, a CR4 large armored blade-clawed burrowing beast would instill fear in any Traveler, but these mammals are instead peaceful and just want to burrow and chew on roots all day. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #beast #creaturedesign

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

New beasts! The kurruk, a plains dwelling mammal that digs deep for tubers and the the scorpithian, a whip-scorpion that lies in wait, raising its flower-like metasomal segments to attract pollinators. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #creaturedesign #creature #animal #conceptart #rpg #ttrpg

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This bat is the result of millions of years of bio-diverse cave systems, losing the need to fly when the floors, walls and ceilings are coated with tasty fungus to chew on. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #dnd #journal #beast #creaturedesign #conceptart #bat #mushroom

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A marsupial that's on the verge of extinction from a low-survival rate of births. To quell their maternal extincts, the females of the species have a tendency to 'adopt' the wayward young of other creatures #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #illustration #conceptart #animal

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Let's start this new year off right with the Gharril. The admittedly most soft-spec-evo creature in the project, with its single eye and snail-stalk legs #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #creaturedesign #creature #ttrpg #conceptart #snail #mollusk

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Here's the first of the three Creator-Tier creations from the combined forces of Splash's ideas and my paintbrush! Can't wait to share the next 2 #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #creaturedesign #creature #conceptart #holidays #nautilus #xmas

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A freshwater pike-evolved fish that took on some of the armored scales of the sturgeon to survive in those rough white rapids, while retaining all the ferocity #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #creaturedesign #creature #fish #fishing

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A hulking avian that through millions of years of foraging on the forest floor for hard shelled nuts that needed a lot of muscle to pull at the roots it converged on many gorilla-like traits. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #dungeonsanddragons #creaturedesign #creature

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Evolved from the ocelot, the Lexati evolved to glide across the branches, akin to flying squirrels. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #roleplaying #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #tabletopgaming#beast #creaturedesign #ttrpg #conceptart #cute #cat #kitten #squirrel #feline

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The last Apex of the bestiary, not the largest but one that could take out anything along the shore or under the tide, that will stalk the coral strands and take down creatures in the cool darkness of the night. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #creaturedesign #creature

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The Burrberry Beetle spends most of its life munching away at leaves waiting for birds to pluck them away, only to be digesting the beetles eggs and start its next stage in its life cycle. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #monster #rpg #tabletopgaming #creaturedesign #insect #bug #berry

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

So this started as a joke, the idea that the capybara is nearly peak evolution, and in the length of time until Sol'Kesh takes place, it just grows a beard as its evolution. #bestiary #speculativeevolution #fantasy #art #rpg #roleplaying #creaturedesign #creature #conceptart #capybara #beard #furry

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Evolved from pigs that journeyed deeper into the rivers over millions of years, they converged on many manatee-like forms. While retaining a ferocious territorial life style and will any beasts that encroach on their deltas #bestiary #speculativeevolution #art #monster #rpg #d&d #creaturedesign

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Terry Maranda @terrymaranda.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

First post on #bluesky so hello world! Why not start with my most recent entry into the Sol'Kesh bestiary. Which is going on live on #kickstarter now www.kickstarter.com/projects/sol... #bestiary #speculativeevolution #art #monster #rpg #dnd #patreon #beast #creaturedesign #ttrpg #conceptart #bird

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