Wild Clovenfoot
Generic name for a deer, red or roe, and the "wild" in wild-cloverfoot exists to distinguish it from the handful of tame ones the milting are said to keep, which I have never seen and cannot confirm.
They graze the Wisewood margin in small, watchful groups and startle exactly the way an off-world deer startles -- white flash of the rump, a bound, gone into cover -- except a wild-cloverfoot startles before the thing that spooked it has made a sound a person could have heard, sometimes whole seconds before.
I don't think they're especially clever. I think they're listening to something the rest of us aren't equipped to hear, the same low-frequency traffic that runs under the Wisewood whether or not anyone's tuned to it, and a startled cloverfoot herd is, in practice, one of the more reliable early warnings the wood offers, if you know to read it.
They're not dangerous in any ordinary sense. A cornered buck will use the antlers, same as an off-world stag would, but a wild-cloverfoot's whole strategy is built around never being cornered in the first place.
Field note: if a cloverfoot herd bolts and you haven't seen or heard anything yet, treat it as the warning. Something is already closer than you think.
| Type | Listener |
| HP | 2 |
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