The East Anglian reliquary of Beasts 

What started with a few Snap Dragons hidden around Norfolk has grown into something considerably bigger.

Beasts to find and collect. A Bestiary that is still being written. Fieldwork that takes the Guild out into real places. Stories that weave themselves through Norfolk, its history and the things we've made along the way.

Some of it is real history. Some of it very much isn't.

Working out where one ends and the other begins is half the fun.

Known Species

Not every Beast in the Bestiary is a dragon. The Guild currently records ten known species, from Snap Dragons and Shucks to Hikeys, Dodmen and things considerably harder to classify.

From the Forge

Collections are still a big part of Beastly Boxes, but they are no longer being forced to arrive because the calendar says they should. New Beasts will leave the Forge when they are finished.

Built on real places

Beastly Boxes has always started with real places.

Norwich pageant dragons. Black Shuck stories. Ruined churches, old roads, marshes, buildings, carvings and bits of local history that are strange enough before we add anything to them.

We take those places and stories and build another layer over the top.

Sometimes the history inspires the Beast.

Sometimes the Beast sends us back to the history.

And sometimes the line between the two gets deliberately difficult to spot.

 The Guild

The Guild has grown a lot over the last two years.

It started as a way of tying the hunts together, but it has become the people who actually make all of this work. The ones who turn up, follow the stories, join the Flights, send things in, argue over what something means and occasionally spot things before we do.

Going forward, we want to give the Guild more to actually take part in.

That means Fieldwork, community challenges, helping us rebuild parts of the Bestiary and more things that reward paying attention rather than simply being first to arrive somewhere.

You do not need to know all of the lore to get involved.

You just need to be willing to look a little closer.