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Beavers

Beavers are large, semi-aquatic rodents famous or infamous for building dams and changing their surrounding environment. In this campaign setting, the Bellows Of Beaver Summoning, a magical item, was introduced and beavers have been summoned to an unnatural amount in various locations.1)

Beaver Faqs

Behavior and Family

Beaver Dam Ecology

Beavers make dams using wood, rocks and mud. This slows down streams, blocks drainage ditches, and tends to create wetlands. This has an effect of filtering water, pushing water sideways from its original path, perhaps creating some flooding. Anything downstream benefits from this by a clearer filtered water runoff. These dammed areas create new fishing holes and for the sake of a fantasy RPG like ours they also create new pools of water where anything aquatic loving…ANYTHING3)…could move in. There is also a notable effect of beavers gnawing down trees around their dam areas changing the landscape.

Where could something like this be a disaster? As an example, if beavers were allowed to do this sort of thing, hypothetically, unchecked in perhaps Goldvale, the results would likely flood out large chunks of the town, destroy the Goldfish Pond based scenario, and perhaps make the place too attractive to new threats like magical krakens who would sense a new water scenario.4)

1)
Once in the Rusty Cave where they inaccurately chewed up Eyrun's corpse before we learned they are herbivores. Another time in Goldvale where they were released into the waterways to found the Goldfish Mesh.
2)
Sounds as obnoxious as “Dark Vision.”
3)
Think monsters.
4)
This is 100% speculation, not the outcome of the actual game scenario.