Creatures

Scrael \/ Scraeling - Spider thing

• large as a wagon wheel

• black a slate

• heavy

• sharp feet like razors

• sounds like stone

• no eyes

• no mouth

• fetureless

• smooth and hard like stone

• moves fast

• no blood or organs

• grey inside like a mushroom

• when a shim is pressed against it, there's a short, sharp, crackling sound

• and a sweet acrid smell of rotting flowers or burning hair

According to Carter:

• jumped on Carter's horse Nelly from a tree

• killed her

• She fell on it cracking it

• It attacked carter

• he stomped on it killing it

Kvothe:

• come from the distant east over mountains?

• "They can't have made it this far west yet"

• "I thought the Mountains-"

• Claims he hasn't heard of them to locals

• Took a step away

• Says there was only one

• The rest possibly died coming over the mountains

• A storm might have separated it from the pack

• It's not a demon

• They don't retreat

• They're like wasps from a hive

• They keep attacking till they die

• Must burn with Ash and Rowan

Bast:

• There's no such thing as one

• Three or Four could take a town

• Swords aren't much use against them

Kote and Bast:

• It's not a demon

• Can be disposed with

• • a deep pit
  • a fire that includes rowan wood
  • burns long and hot
  • buried
  • no piece escapes

Whatever Bast is (Fae?)

Kvothe:

• By earth and stone I abjure you flicks water glamour be banished

• Temic: Begone Demon! Tehus Antausa eha!

• Aroi te denna-leyan!

Bast:

• Doesn't like Iron, is hurt by it

• Uses Bone needles for stitching

• Sees humans as primitive