I'm currently kind of revising the canon as far as attributes, particularly Undirected attributes, go, so at the same time, I'm trying to work on revising the assortment of mystery beings to better fit that. There aren't going to be any new attributes added, at least not at this time; I'm just better clarifying "ways" each attribute can "be", if that makes any sense.
What prompted me to do this is that I got an idea for a new type of Undirected mystery being that's especially hostile, shadowy, and mysterious. At first I just got the image of a Portent one like that, but then I decided I'd make similar ones for the other Undirected attributes. After that, I realised that there were other ways I imagined Undirected attributes being expressed in than just the "standard" one and that, so I made a couple more categories. I'm unsure if I'm going to do the same with Directed attributes, or whether Undirected attributes will just be the more complex ones and that's the way it will be.
Trust me, it will make more sense later.
I already described the Adumbrator, but this is the revamp. Its head is mostly a hollow, flat curve, and houses churning dark clouds instead of a brain. These clouds seem to follow the general mood of things, though they also sometimes churn more visibly when the Adumbrator is contemplating something.
Equivocators are six-limbed, vaguely horse- or centaur-like beings that always wear two masks, usually connected by a cloak. They seem to have the ability to reverse their bodies by putting their "arms" on the ground and picking up the set of "arms" at the other side, enabling them to quickly change directions.
Few people have seen either of their masks come off, but it's rumoured that both ends of the Equivocator are just tail ends beneath the masks. If this is true, nobody has any idea where the head is.
Eventuators are quiet, aloof beings that mostly just wander around and observe their surroundings, much like Observers. However, at times they will just... unexpectedly do things. Usually, these things are things that seemingly would have happened anyway, though once the Eventuator has already done them, it can be hard to tell.
Nobody is really sure why Eventuators go around doing things that would inevitably happen anyway, but this seems to be their trademark. It's also thought that they may live forever, though nobody knows if that's actually true.
Vociferators are extremely noisy mantis- or wasp-like beings that seem to be discontented almost all the time. They tend to fly around mostly randomly but occasionally they seem to pick a certain area and just continually fly all around it being exceptionally noisy, threatening, and intrusive. They're somewhat arbitrary about the areas they pick to do this in, but if anybody taunts them or aggressively tries to fight them off, that tends to increase the probability of them choosing that area by a lot.
Wild stories tell of people getting killed by their stings, shredded by their foreleg teeth, violently devoured in their mandibles, etc., but nobody knows if these stories are actually true, because almost everyone just avoids them when they appear and no bodies have been preserved showing Vociferator damage that anybody knows of. Nobody is even sure if the widely-held assumption Vociferators actually want to kill and destroy when they fly around places angrily is true or not.
Blazondeer are regal caribou-like beings that almost always carry at least one flag. Usually they have a number of different flags hanging from their body and antlers, whose shapes and heraldic patterns vary from individual to individual but are usually symmetrical from one side/horn to the other.
Blazondeer, somewhat like Veriasauruses, can often be seen wandering around silently and majestically while displaying their insignia as if trying to advocate for some kind of cause, but to empty air. It's not really known why they do this. (Some have speculated this is their courtship display, but there's really no evidence for that.) At other times, multiple Blazondeer sporting the same or very similar insignia have been seen in the same area, suggesting that some people may use them in teams like reindeer. Nobody who does this has ever been discovered, though, and like with other mystery beings, very few people who've just found them have been able to tame them. Unlike with most other mystery beings, though, it seems like every so often somebody who managed to tame a randomly-found Blazondeer does show up. However, it's very rare for one of these people to even have two, much less a full team of them.
Incidentally, since almost all mystery beings can float and swim in the air, Blazondeer can do that too, meaning that not only does the Stablehand universe have a "Christmas flying reindeer" mythology but a lot of young people just assume they came from "Santa". (I'm thinking they probably wouldn't call it Christmas or Santa, of course, but still.)
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