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Hehe. Nice question.

My high fantasy has a lot of normal creatures you’d find here on earth, but also plenty of new fantasy creatures. The legendary ones are called the creatures of Myf, and they are pretty spectacular. I’ve only created a few of them so far, however.

Saliero (name derived from the latin word for frog – Salientia) – also known as Mount Frog. It’s a massive toad-like creature with slimy-frog-like skin that can grow anywhere from as big as a house to as big as a small mountain. It burrows into hills/mountains and hibernates 9 months of the year and rarely moves. Its tongue has the force of a cannon and can reach long distances. It is impervious to both heat and cold, however, lightning is a distinct weakness.

Anquingon (name derived from the latin for a supposed ancient ancestor to the chameleon – Anqingosaurus) – A lizard-like creature that can just as fast on four legs as it can on two legs. It has a tough skin that is hard to penetrate, but the greatest quality of the Anquingon is its ability to alter its size. It can grow gigantic or shrink down to pocket size. This makes it not only difficult to find, but extremely difficult to beat.

Aemirok (name derived from Inuit legend of Amarok) – Giant flying wolf with inverted claws that fold up onto itself and act as shields. It can shoot substance from its stomach that is a freezing poison, also called creeping ice. If hit by it, the affected region will freeze and then spread like poison.

Tannink’esh (name derived from two Hebrew words – leviathan, and fire) – my world’s version of a fire-breathing dragon. Except it is born deep in the sea – near deep sea hydrothermal vents. It grows and lives much of its life underwater, then flies out as an adolescent to find a mate – their mating grounds are found within volcanoes. The mating process can last for decades. After which, they return to the sea. Their scales are near impenetrable, and unlike most dragons, they do not have a soft underbelly. This is partly due to the fact that their internal organs are arranged differently. Its heart and lungs are located in its belly, while its stomach is up toward its chest. (It has no rib cage.) This allows it to have greater freedom in what it can ingest. The Tannink’esh cannot produce its own flames – though that is a common mistake made – it can ingest lava – its stomach acting as a thermos of sorts – and can spew it out to defend itself when needed. When in the ocean, the scalding water found near the hydrothermal vents is a similar defensive attack. It has a head like a lion, though instead of a mane, it has spiked tendrils similar to a axolotl – which act like gills when its underwater. It also has two sets of wings – a thin, whale-like apparatus which its arms are attached to which it uses to swim swiftly, and a massive, arching set of wings it tends to keep folded up close to its body that it uses to fly in the air.

Those are my creatures of myf… so far. I do know of one more I plan to create – a massive earth worm – akin to the size of the worms in Dune – however, these worms have very strongly pressurized stomachs. They eat everything in front of them – ingesting sand and all – as they burrow around the desert. Their pressurized stomach squeeze out enough nutrients to sustain them, though they spend 90% of their days eating. However, as a side effect, their… um… “byproduct” includes diamonds. (No teeth, however, since the stomach does all the work.) …no name for that one yet.