To prepare for the event, Tianming had read many books about Ebonia, attempting to learn everything about its culture, geography, factions, and people. One of the things he had studied was in the form of a legacy formation, containing an enormous amount of information. It was titled the Ebonian Bestiary. Compiled by the ebons, it had undergone countless revisions and updated editions, detailing large numbers of nova wildbeasts that they were familiar with. The only unmarked beasts either resided in the world down under or had undergone some odd mutation in recent years.

Nova wildbeasts lived in horrific habitats, constantly absorbing the most chaotic form of nova source and feasting...