Feondas vs nature

[Arthus]

There are also some feondas in the campaign (book 3 - Dearg), but this is not finished yet (part 3 on 5 published in French). This campaign was written to be played without the secrets of the game, so it won't be explained what they are and where they come from in it.

We'll have to wait until the secrets are published... And while waiting, we can only imagine and decide "our" personal truth.

[Fafi06]

You can refer to the direct translation of feond : enemy.

This is how the humans tell about them. So a lot of strange things can be part of feondas, the main idea is just that it is dangerous for humans in a general form. But they are not obviously directly dangerous. They can be insidious like the tree Mardacht in the scenario of the Travel book.
Some can even be intelligent like dreins and conduct assaults on cities.
Feondas is the name for the adversity of humans, mainly during the past times of Aergewin. Probably that there are some bigger/stronger entities also, but they did not come again for now. But... who knows, some of the novels of the world book could be interpreted as a new dangerous age. And the present great campaign also reveal some supernatural signs that also could highlight not the secrets oh no, but highlight some kind of influence they can have...
meantime, except wait for some 3 years I guess, you will have to manage yourself the meaning of feondas : the threat of humanity...

[10,000 Orcs]

In my opinion some basic information should have been in the core rules or in Travels book at latest.

There are very distinctive descriptions of feondas, so like their dissolving corpses or the leaders wearing masks.

However, as a GM, I even don't know if feondas were supernatural species which have to eat, drink and procreate! Or are feondas supernatural demons, who come into being by a supernatural force? Just *pop* and there they are, adult and angry?

Why are they even seen as supernatural? To a world where feondas do exist as long as humanity does, how do they differentiate between a lion, a tiger and a feonda beast? We can do this easily because we know animal life on earth and we know anything which is not an animal which lives on earth would be a feonda. But how do the people of Shadows of Esteren know what is a natural animal and what is a supernatural feonda?

[Evolena]

THEY don't know. The tri-kazelians may call "feond" all that does seem supernatural, or too strong, or too agressive against humans, or that they don't fully understand. But all that the Esteren inhabitants call "feond" is not necessary a "real" feond, in the term of the game's secrets (that we as leaders don't know either... for now). And this is absolutely not a problem (it would be as calling a whale a fish because it is in the sea).

[Clovis]

Evolena is right about this: Feondas is by now means an exact science, and even the most seasoned veterans and most learned scientists have yet to understand what such creatures are about exactly.

As things are, simply put, anything that's odd-looking and aggressive enough toward mankind is pretty certain to be considered a Feond.

Whether there are actually criteria for being a Feondas or whether "Feond" is simply a generic term for weird creatures is any Tri-Kazelian's guess.