Robert Silverberg's Majipoor: Flora & Fauna
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One of Silverberg's greatest achievements with Majipoor is the wealth of imagination shown in the plants and animals of the planet. Virtually every page of every story set there mentions some exotic life form.
Flora
Domestic
- Ghumba
- A plant of some kind, the root of which is made into candy.
- Glein
- Hingamort
- A fungoid crop with "yellow fingers."
- Lusavender
- A crop grown for its seed pods.
- Milaile
- A crop.
- Ricca
- A crop of some kind.
- Thuyol
- A crop.
Wild
- Dragon-grass
- A kind of seaweed.
- Ghazan
- A gnarly tree.
- Moon-cactus
- Grows in a desert of Alhanroel.
- Muorna
- Leaves provide an ingredient of dream-wine.
- Pingla
- Seeds used in fortune-telling.
- Semotan
- A tree with fronds.
- Sensitivo
- A plant...
- Sithereel
- Berries provide an ingredient of dream-wine.
- Thokka
- Edible berries. Waxy pale blue with white highlights.
- Thwale
- A tree known for its aromatic wood.
- Vejloo
- Roots provide an ingredient of dream-wine.
Fauna
Aside from the known intelligent species native to Majipoor (the Piurivar, the Sea-dragons and the Forest-Brethren), here are some of the animals mentioned.
Domestic
Wild
- Bruul
- A small animal used by the Piurivar in a ritual.
- Dimilion
- A wobbly-legged animal.
- Drole
- A small mammal.
- Gassimaule
- A creature of Glayge with a narrow body.
- Ghalvar
- A game animal.
- Hatchet-eels
- From Gihorna in southeastern Zimroel.
- Hazenmarl
- A "silly-looking" bird with long legs.
- Kassai
- An animal with twitching antennae and eyes like white platters.
- Malorn
- A ten-legged creature with a baggy oval body, a stinger on its tail, and sharp claws.
- Mancaulain
- A spiky animal.
- Milufta
- A carrion-eating bird.
- Min-mollitor
- A tracker beast.
- Mintun
- A small mammal.
- Mollitor
- An armor-plated animal.
- Rip-toad
- An amphibious creature from Gihorna in southeastern Zimroel, described as "all belly and mouth and saw teeth."
- Sigimoin
- A small, dainty, tip-toeing animal with a furry tail at either end. Not sure how this works...
- Steetmoy
- A white-furred creature of the far north.
- Stoienzar oyster
- Eaten by humans
- Vourhain
- An animal with sickle tusks and curving claws, known for its tracking ability.
- Weyhant
- A tracker beast.
- Wind-spider
- Mentioned in vp.
- Zampidoon
- An awkward bird with a large beast that was once plentiful.
- Zytoon
- A tracker beast.
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