Monsters

While some might question the label of "monster" for sentient, speaking creatures, Faeries are definitely wary of a number of creatures in nature, many of whom are prefectly willing to predate them if given the chance.

This page covers the ones that hunt, sting, parasitize, or simply cannot be reasoned with. For the creatures the Kingdom has yoked, herded, milked, and listed in its ledgers as equipment, see Beasts of Burden.

The Scale

A Faerie stands three and a half to four inches tall and is Medium. Everything else follows from that. The world runs at 18×: one in-world foot is two-thirds of a real inch, and a real-world inch is a foot and a half in-world.

Size	In-world	Real-world	Space
Fine	up to 6 in	up to ⅓ in (8 mm)	½ ft
Diminutive	6 in – 1 ft	⅓ – ⅔ in (8 – 17 mm)	1 ft
Tiny	1 – 2 ft	⅔ – 1⅓ in (17 – 34 mm)	2½ ft
Small	2 – 4 ft	1⅓ – 2⅔ in (34 – 68 mm)	5 ft
Medium	4 – 8 ft	2⅔ – 5⅓ in (68 – 135 mm)	5 ft
Large	8 – 16 ft	5⅓ – 10⅔ in (13.5 – 27 cm)	10 ft
Huge	16 – 32 ft	10⅔ – 21⅓ in (27 – 54 cm)	15 ft
Gargantuan	32 – 64 ft	21⅓ – 42⅔ in (54 – 108 cm)	20 ft
Colossal	64 ft and up	42⅔ in and up (108 cm+)	30 ft

Measure long creatures — centipedes, worms, snakes — by length, not height. Measure fliers by the greater of body length and wingspan; a dragonfly is Small on the ground and something worse in the air.

"Colossal" is not the top of the ladder. It is only the top of the ladder we bothered to build. A human is a hundred feet tall and there is no entry for that.

Challenge by Size

Scale does the work here too. A creature's threat to a four-inch Faerie is not the threat it poses to a human, and the encounter tables on the subregion pages are built on the ladder below. A barn owl is not a CR ¼ curiosity — it is a silent gargantuan flier that hears a heartbeat under snow, and it should be statted, feared, and fought like an adult dragon.

Size	Typical CR	Reads as
Fine	hazard – ⅛	Terrain and attrition. Do not roll initiative
Diminutive	⅛ – 2	Vermin and nuisances; the first thing a new party kills
Tiny	1 – 3	A fair fight for a starting party, one at a time
Small	3 – 6	The working monster of a low-level campaign
Medium	5 – 9	An even match, and the setting's most conversational killers
Large	8 – 13	A set-piece. Reach, grapple and swallow all apply
Huge	12 – 17	A campaign villain with feathers or fur
Gargantuan	16 – 22	Dragon-tier. Wings, silence, and no counterplay but cover
Colossal	21 – 30	Ancient-dragon-tier. Survive it; do not fight it
Human	none	Weather. There is no encounter to run

Ratings in the subregion tables are per creature, not per encounter: four hornets at CR 4 is a deadly fight, not four easy ones. Entries marked — are not combats at all — traffic, work crews, weather, and people going about their business, which is most of what a road actually produces.

Predators and the Untameable

Sorted small to large. Where a creature spans a boundary, it is listed at the size it fights at.

Size	Creature	Real size	The threat
Fine	Chigger, mite	1 mm	Not a fight. A condition. Burrows in and stays.
Fine	Biting midge	2 mm	Never one. Clouds of them; bleeds a sentry white in a night.
Fine	Flea	2½ mm	Armored past reason, jumps a hundred feet, nearly unkillable.
Fine	Fire ant (worker)	3 mm	Never alone, never retreats, fights with chemistry.
Fine	Braconid wasp	3 mm	Lays its eggs inside you. The Kingdom does not discuss this.
Fine	Tick	3 mm	Waits on a grass blade for a year with its arms out.
Fine	Housefly	7 mm	Carrion-follower and ill omen. Finds the dead before the mourners do.
Fine	Ladybird beetle	7 mm	Charming, red, and the reason aphid-herds need guards.
Diminutive	Mosquito	6 mm	Drinks, and leaves behind worse than it took.
Diminutive	Jumping spider	10 mm	Eight eyes, no web, and it has already worked out the angle.
Diminutive	Antlion larva	10 mm	A cone of dry sand that is a mouth. You see it once.
Diminutive	Rove beetle	10 mm	Carrion, chemical burns, and a raised tail meaning don't.
Diminutive	Earwig	12 mm	Pincers. Sleeps in your bedding. Deserves most of its reputation.
Diminutive	Tiger beetle	12 mm	The fastest thing at this scale — so fast it runs blind and stops to look.
Diminutive	Water strider	15 mm	Owns the surface of every still pond. Charges you across it.
Diminutive	Backswimmer	15 mm	Hangs upside down beneath the film and stabs upward.
Diminutive	Yellowjacket	15 mm	A wasp with none of a paper wasp's discipline.
Tiny	Black widow	12 mm body	Small, shy, and carrying venom out of all proportion to her size.
Tiny	Ground beetle	20 mm	Night, jaws, and in some strains a boiling chemical spray.
Tiny	Paper wasp	20 mm	Not a monster — a soldier, with a nest, orders, and reinforcements.
Tiny	Robber fly	20 mm	Takes couriers out of the air and eats them on the way down.
Tiny	Wolf spider	20 mm	No web. It simply runs you down, carrying its young on its back.
Tiny	Cockroach	25 mm	Eats anything, survives anything, outlasts every siege ever laid.
Tiny	House centipede	25 mm	Too many legs, far too fast, and it comes from the ceiling.
Small	Bullet ant	25 mm	One sting. Twelve hours. Faeries measure pain against it.
Small	Assassin bug, wheel bug	35 mm	A stabbing beak that liquefies the inside and drinks it out.
Small	Hornet	35 mm	The standard against which all other sting-terror is compared.
Small	Diving beetle	35 mm	The shark of the shallow pool, and it flies between pools at night.
Small	Camel spider	40 mm	No venom. Jaws and speed, which turn out to be enough.
Small	Cicada-killer wasp	40 mm	Carries prey twice its weight away alive, paralyzed, and awake.
Small	Praying mantis (nymph)	40 mm	Already lethal. Not yet arrogant about it.
Small	Centipede, lesser	40 mm	Venom delivered through modified legs. Twenty-odd of them.
Small	Bark scorpion	45 mm	Venom, patience, and it fluoresces beautifully under fey-light.
Small	Dragonfly	45 mm body, 75 mm span	Apex of the air. Misses one hunt in twenty.
Small	Vinegaroon	50 mm	Sprays acid with pinpoint accuracy from a whip on its back.
Small	Tarantula	50–70 mm body	Body Small, reach Medium. Flicks barbed hairs into your eyes.
Small	Anole, small lizard	60 mm snout-vent	Motionless in the sun for an hour, then a tongue and nothing.
Small	Camel spider, greater	60 mm	Runs down a mounted courier over open ground.
Medium	Robber fly, greater	50 mm	A duelist's build and no interest in the duel.
Medium	Shrew	60–80 mm	Must eat constantly or die, so it never, ever stops. Venomous bite.
Medium	Giant water bug	65–100 mm	Ambushes from under the waterline. The bite dissolves.
Medium	Praying mantis	70–90 mm	Courteous, patient, and will finish the conversation while eating you.
Medium	Newt	80 mm	Slow, unbothered, and poisonous to the touch.
Medium	Deathstalker scorpion	80 mm	The Emberwaste's argument against travel.
Medium	Hummingbird	85 mm	A needle on wings, hovering, and territorial past all sense.
Medium	Centipede, greater	10–15 cm	Hunts bats in full dark by touch alone. Fears nothing at this scale.
Medium	Emperor scorpion (young)	12 cm	Armored, pincered, and slow enough to be survivable. Slow enough.
Medium	Crayfish	12 cm	Armored, aquatic, claws, and unshakably certain of its rights.
Large	Chinese mantis	10 cm	A mantis grown into a siege weapon.
Large	Frog	8–11 cm	The tongue arrives noticeably before the frog does.
Large	Bat	9 cm body, 30 cm span	Hunts by sound. Darkness is not cover; it is the ambush.
Large	Mole	12–16 cm	Blind, tireless, eats its own weight daily, comes up through the floor.
Large	Sparrow, songbird	14–16 cm	The reason no Faerie flies in open daylight without a lookout.
Large	Huntsman, fishing spider	15 cm span	Runs on walls. Runs on water. Runs, mostly.
Large	Fence lizard	18 cm	A sunlit rock is never just a sunlit rock.
Large	Woodpecker	20–25 cm	Opens the wall of your home like a nutshell, methodically.
Large	Weasel, stoat	20–25 cm	Kills far past hunger. Enters any hole a Faerie can.
Large	Hedgehog	20–25 cm	A walking siege engine whose entire diet is people your size.
Large	Rat	20–25 cm body	Clever, organized, and will negotiate in good faith right up until it doesn't.
Large	Jay, thrush, mockingbird	20–30 cm	Nest-robbers and mimics. A jay will call you in using a voice you love.
Huge	Bullfrog	15–20 cm	Swallows a Faerie whole and looks around for the second one.
Huge	Kingfisher	20 cm	Takes you off the water's surface without slowing down.
Huge	Cane toad	20 cm	Poisonous, indiscriminate, and eats whatever moves in front of it.
Huge	Emperor scorpion	20 cm	Full grown. Not slow enough.
Huge	Centipede, gigantean	30 cm	The Deephearth' apex. Twenty-three pairs of legs and no natural enemy.
Huge	Snake, lesser	30–38 cm	No legs, no sound, no warning, no negotiation.
Huge	Chicken, hen	40–50 cm	Human-kept, human-fed, and the single most efficient people-killer in the Waking World.
Huge	Opossum	45 cm	Eats anything, plays dead convincingly, and is very hard to finish.
Huge	Magpie, jackdaw	45 cm	Thief and hoarder. Will trade with you, and will cheat.
Huge	Raccoon (young)	45 cm	Already has the hands.
Huge	Ferret, mink	50 cm	The weasel's larger cousin, with all the same habits and more reach.
Gargantuan	Hawk	30–45 cm	Threads the Hedges at full speed without touching a twig.
Gargantuan	Barn owl	35–40 cm, 1 m span	Silent in flight. Hears a heartbeat under snow.
Gargantuan	Skunk	50–60 cm	Carries a chemical weapon rated for battlefield use.
Gargantuan	Garter snake	50–70 cm	Hunts the Manywaters shallows and the Hollow Marches banks.
Gargantuan	Raccoon	75–95 cm	Hands. It has hands. It opens things.
Gargantuan	Badger	75–90 cm	Digs out any burrow ever dug. Nothing you build stops it.
Gargantuan	Fox	90–110 cm	Cunning enough to be a person, hungry enough not to bother.
Colossal	Great horned owl	55 cm, 1.4 m span	The landlord of the night woods. Everything else pays rent.
Colossal	Dog	60 cm – 1.5 m	Scent. There is no glamour that beats a nose.
Colossal	Cat	70–90 cm nose to tail	Sees through glamour, hunts without hunger, cannot be reasoned with, and is beloved. The dread of the Waking World has a name and it purrs.
Colossal	Goose	80 cm – 1 m	Territorial to a degree that has no explanation and needs none.
Colossal	Heron	1 m, 1.8 m span	Stands in the fen for an hour without moving. Then doesn't.
Colossal	Snake, greater	1.2–1.8 m	A hundred feet of it. Ask the Corpselight Fens.
Colossal	Human	1.5–1.9 m	~100 ft tall. Off every scale on this page. Not an encounter — a weather event.

Beyond this the categories stop meaning anything. A deer, a cow, a horse, a car: these are not monsters, they are terrain that moves.

Running Them

Faeries are Medium. Every size modifier, reach rule, and grapple penalty in the book applies unchanged. The setting does the work by relabeling the bestiary, not by rewriting the math.
Anything Large or bigger swallows you whole. Grapple, swallow, and trample are the default attack forms of the back half of this table, not exotic options.
Fine and Diminutive threats are hazards, not monsters. Midge clouds, tick fields, and flea infestations should be run as terrain and attrition. Do not roll initiative for a mite.
They all talk. Even the cat. Especially the cat. A predator that opens with conversation is the setting's signature horror, and the Kingdom's official position that these are "beasts" is the setting's signature lie.