Beasts List of The Wardstone Chronicles characters

1 beasts

1.1 boggart

1.1.1 hairy boggart
1.1.2 hall knocker
1.1.3 ripper


1.2 demon

1.2.1 buggane


1.3 elementals

1.3.1 fire elementals

1.3.1.1 salamander


1.3.2 asteri


1.4 water elementals
1.5 hydra
1.6 skelt
1.7 selkie
1.8 sirens
1.9 wight
1.10 worme

beasts
boggart

there many kinds of boggarts. can travel along special kinds of faults, instead of being faults in earth, faults in spiritual magic. can travel along these instantly, if teleporting.

hairy boggart

hairy boggarts take shape of animals. dogs, there still many cats, goat or 2 , horse. boggart guards mr gregory s chipenden house called kratch , returns house after tom locates , makes new deal it. invisible when happy (or angry) takes form of large ginger cat 1 eye. lost other eye in battle bane.

hall knocker

a hall knocker boggart announces or existence knocking. can develop in stone chucker, , spook fought 1 twice, coming close death.

ripper

a ripper dangerous , deadly of boggarts. starts out killing cows , sucking blood (hence name cattle ripper ). however, if taste human blood, ll switch cattle humans. hunt humans, open fissure in ground , trap 1 of human s limbs in it, leg. rip open limb , viciously suck blood it. process can take anywhere 5 minutes, 10 hours, depending on size. in 1 of books, tom had bind ripper in horshaw sucking blood out of leg of priest (who was, in fact, spook s brother) had tried ward off praying. happened in church.

demon
buggane

the buggane category of demon frequents ruins , materialises black bull or hairy man, although other forms chosen if suit purpose. in marshy ground bugganes have been known shape-shift wormes.

the buggane makes 2 distinctive sounds – either bellowing enraged bull warn off venture near domain or whispering victims in sinister human voice. can speak mind of prey , hear die in few days if buggane isn t killed then.

bugganes immune salt , iron, makes them hard both kill , confine. thing vulnerable blade made silver alloy, must driven heart of buggane when has materialized. spook , tom meet bugganes on isle of mona during events in spook s nightmare.

elementals
fire elementals

a jellyfish object clings ceilings, on fire , able take flight 1 touch burst flames immediately, in spooks: sacrifice, jellyfish killed bill arkwright

salamander

a salamander powerful known fire elemental, being hot can reduce victim ashes instantly ease. ordeen, appears near end of sixth book, can take form of salamander, similar bane s ability become gargoyle. ordeen known salamander.

asteri

an asteri star-shaped elemental hangs on ceilings , falls on victim s head, of them waiting fall on spook , apprentice on `trip` in ord - re not ones encounter these fire elementals, witches pendle burnt death them.

water elementals
hydra

at near end of spook s nightmare , buggane transforms hydra. nine-headed snake keeps body submerged in water while 9 heads attack it. can killed thrust through heart silver blade.

skelt

s rare , lives in crevices, either submerged or close water. instead of flexible tongue, long hollow bony tube protrudes mouth. tube s sharp , pointed @ end creature can suck blood of victims. kobalos god talkus known skelt god.

selkie

a selkie or seal-woman shape-shifter turns woman marry fisherman. can t have children , don t appear age. take 1 or 2 days take human shape can revert in seconds if threatened.

sirens

they creatures of sea, females, used strange, melodious cries lure sailors onto rocks , destroy vessels. drag drowning sailors depths , feed upon flesh @ leisure. unlike ordinary men, spooks have degree of resilience cries.

they appear beautiful women bright eyes, golden hair , skin, allure powerful, s illusion create. in reality, although retain body of woman have long , green hair tangled seaweed, , faces monstrous, huge fangs sprouting grotesquely swollen lips. spook, bill arkwright , tom met them when sailing greece fight ordeen. trying avoid them, seventh sons of seventh sons paralysed cries, sailors hypnotized , crash.

wight

wights creatures created , used witches, guardian of secret place. witches use dark magic create wight , bind drowned sailors soul body, causing body stop decaying. instead body bloated , strong. wights don t have eyes, since these have been eaten fish, have keen hearing helping them locate victims while under water.

the wight pull victim water, victim drowns while wight dismember victim. can defeated same things used against witches: rowan staff, silver chain, , iron , salt

worme

not confused worm . creatures water dwellers. vary in size , looks , can between size of small dog size of house. can have legs, though of them have tails. bodies eel-like , covered in hard scales hard penetrate blades. mouth has deadly fangs can bite off limb ease and, when on land, can spit out deadly poison.

some of wormes can have wings , mistaken dragons because of steam erupts mouth