Template:Monster Lore

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Monster Lore
Harper Field Dossier
Classification Unestablished
Threat Undetermined
Temperament Unobserved
Where it is soft
Bites deepest Nothing confirmed
Shrugs off Unknown
Untouched by Unknown
Hard to unfoot Unknown
Senses Unknown
Provenance
Knowledge Fragmentary
First catalogued
Filed by Unsigned

Usage

A Monster Lore dossier records what the company has actually learned about a creature — never its game statistics. Every field is prose: speak in qualities, not numbers ("shrugs off the cold as a familiar friend," never an immunity list or a value). Transcluding the template files the page into Category:Monsters automatically.

{{Monster Lore
| creature_name = 
| classification = 
| threat        = 
| temperament   = 
| weak_against  = What wounds it faster than steel should
| shrugs_off    = What it merely resists
| untouched_by  = What does nothing at all
| hard_to_rattle= What it cannot be made to suffer (fear, poison, charm...)
| senses        = How it perceives the world
| confidence    = Fragmentary | Partial | Well-attested
| encountered   = [[Session ##]] near [[Place]]
| agent         = Reporting Harper
}}

Follow the box with the agent's dispatch and prose sections.