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The '''cuélebre''' is the beast [[Impel]], the Peragian hero, king of Pelda and later Tunseist god of justice, defeated in the foundational myth of [[Arsal]]. He mostly resembles a serpent-dragon, with bat wings, iron claws and adamantine scarlet scales. He was a sapient creature: he ruled over the peoples of Peragen Exterior tyrannically and punished disidence by kidnapping the offenders and their families, who served to feed his offspring. The oppressed rulers called Pelda for help, and Impel himself crossed the Peragian sea to find the place the cuélebre hid his victims. When Impel found it near a bay to the north of the island, the beast found him and he spent two days and two nights fighting against him. The cuélebre was nearly impossible to defeat since he moved so fast he seemed to have multiple bodies, and the only vulnerability he had was inhaling salt. Impel, initially trying and failing to stab him with a sword covered in salt, while a storm was taken place found a slope near the beach, full of a mud nor the beast or the king could get off from; when the storm reached its strongest moment, they were inevitably covered by the mud and taken to the sea. Impel survived and returned to land, but the cuélebre drowned in salty water. He then went to the cave the kidnapped people were in, slained the cuélebre's offspring, who lacked their father's scales, and rescued the prisoners. Before returning to Pelda, Impel walked to the highest point of the bay, buried the salt he had still from the fight, and built a sanctuary over it. Its name was ''Ara de la Sal'', "Sanctuary of Salt", around which the city of Arsal was later built by Peldan settlers.

 

The '''lemures''' are horrific creatures in the Peragian lore. They are the spirits of the dead ancestors whose family have denied them the rites of union with Tunsé's eternity. Their appearance is that of lights and fires in the dark which, instead of rising to the skies and becoming stars in the night, they seek to find the ones who didn't grant them a fair ritual, blind them, and leave them paralyzed as stones forever. If they reach their target, they will continue blinding anyone they might find in their rage until someone does the fair cremation and throw their ashes from a high point, reaching then Tunsé's Eternity and becoming stars.