First animals
Start with six public creatures
These six give the animal section a first clear shape: small wonder, Great River water logic, elder fauna, insect symbiosis, mythic memory, and grounded stone-root ecology.
World · Animals
Animals of Vaelinya
Vaelinya’s animals are living parts of place, weather, route, memory, sound, shelter, food, work, care, and ecological return.
Some hum near warmth. Some rise before they fly along. Some come from the sea both ways. Some walk backwards to keep wind from their faces. Some appear only when memory, grief, route, weather, or return has reached a certain state.
Each animal belongs to a place and a purpose.
How to read them
Colour, sound, movement, and place all matter
Vaelinya animals are not decorations. Their colour, sound, movement, and behaviour show how they belong to water, moss, river, weather, memory, stone, root, or care.
Public pages always explain that meaning in text, so readers do not need sight or hearing to understand the animal.
Animal groups
Wider animal system
The full public animal system will later include insects, birds, elder fauna, wetland creatures, fish and sea creatures, domestic animals, small mammals, reptiles, shell creatures, predators, and mythic or rare animals.
These category pages should come later. The first step is to make the strongest early animals clear and readable.