For all the records that survived the fall of the Eyrie, one thing has become increasingly clear: the Bestiary was never complete.
By late 2025, Mr Magpie had already begun to suspect that the Archive was becoming overwhelmed.
More Beasts were being sighted than the Guild could properly document. New forms appeared faster than records could be written, old sightings contradicted newer ones, and increasingly strange specimens refused to fit comfortably into the systems the Guild had inherited.
For years, much of the attention had been placed on the five rarity grades. These remain useful for identifying particularly unusual specimens, but Mr Magpie became convinced that rarity alone was far too simple a way of understanding the Beasts themselves.
A Beast could be exceptionally rare and tell us little about where it belonged. Another might be relatively common, yet appear again and again in the same kinds of places, under the same conditions or at the same point in the year.
The more records he studied, the clearer another pattern became.
The Six Aspects
Mr Magpie identified six recurring Aspects within the Archive:
Ruins — Beasts associated with broken structures, forgotten places and what remains.
City — Beasts of streets, crossings, markets and heavily inhabited places.
Wild — Beasts found where paths thin out and the landscape resists human order.
Night — Beasts associated with darkness, thresholds and uncertain paths.
Sky — Beasts drawn to height, weather, rooftops and open horizons.
Season — Beasts tied to changing weather, ritual, habit and the turning year.
These are not new rarity grades, nor are they new Species.
They describe something different.
Rarity tells us how unusual a Beast is.
Aspect tells us something about what shapes it.
More importantly, Mr Magpie discovered that the idea was not new.
Fragments concerning the ancient dragon keepers describe their charges according to remarkably similar divisions. The language has changed and much of their meaning has been lost, but it appears that those who kept the old dragons understood that they were shaped as much by place, circumstance and season as by blood.
Mr Magpie intended to publish his findings in November 2025.
He never had the opportunity.
With the downfall of the Eyrie, classification became considerably less important than survival. His research was scattered with the rest of the Archive and remained unfinished.
Until now.
Restoring the Archive
The restoration has begun, but almost nothing has yet been returned to its proper place.
Only two entries have been restored in full, both preserved in Mr Magpie's own hand:
ENTRY 0001 — FRENCH STONE
ENTRY 0002 — PUMPKIN SPICE
Everything beyond them remains incomplete.
And that is where you, the hunters, come in.
The Archive was never built by one person sitting behind a desk. Beasts were found in hedgerows, ruins, gardens, city streets and collections across East Anglia. Many were photographed. Some were traded between hunters. Others appeared only briefly before disappearing again.
There are rare Beasts out there that we know existed but which never received a proper entry.
There will be others we have forgotten entirely.
If you have one, now is the time to bring it back into the record.
Hunters can now submit their own Field Reports to the restored Archive.
Tell us what you have found. Provide its photograph, its history and anything you know about where it came from. You can identify its Species and suggest which of the Six Aspects best describes it.
Do not worry if the classification is uncertain. Mr Magpie's own notes are full of crossed-out entries and arguments in the margins. A Beast found in a ruined coastal fort might belong equally to Ruins, Season or Night. The Archive records uncertainty as readily as certainty.
Particularly significant submissions may be used to restore a missing Bestiary entry.
Not every submitted Beast will receive a new number. Some may prove to be forms already known to us. Others may remain disputed until further evidence appears.
But the next pages of the Archive do not have to be written by Mr Magpie.
They can be written by you.
If there is a rare Beast sitting on your shelf, buried in an old photograph or remembered from a hunt that never made it into the record, submit your findings.
There are only two entries in the restored Archive.
Help us recover the rest.