Calamity Beast

Calamity Beasts
History
Founded on	Bloomburrow
Active	Dragonstorm Arc
Status	Active
Membership
Notable members	Beza, Eluge, Lumra, Maha, Wildsear, Ygra
Associated Colors

Calamity Beasts are huge, non-sapient elemental creatures from Bloomburrow, that bring seasonal changes and weather variations. The Calamity Beasts wreak disaster on an unprecedented scale while they move through the landscape. They are essentially living seasons, and every bit as much part of nature as the animalfolk.

Description

Bloomburrow has no natural seasons. Instead, seasons are brought on by the appearance of Calamity Beasts, whose migrations bring shifts in temperature and environment that get called seasons. The animalfolk have names for every season, some occurring once in a generation. In contrast, others happen yearly with regularity, and each season is named after the powers of the Calamity Beast that caused it. After the Battle of Kell's Ridge and the time of the Order of the Holly Leaf, Valley was largely left untouched by them other than those that brought the changing of the seasons until the events of the Bloomburrow storyline.

The most powerful Calamities are given names and are unique, while minor Calamities are seen more frequently, and their powers are lesser in scale and effect.

Major Calamities

The major Calamity Beasts include:

• Beza (), also known as the the Spring Elk, harbinger of Spring.
• Eluge (), the Flood Gar. Heralds the Season of Deep Waters.
• Lumra (), which represents the feeling of getting lost in the woods.
• Maha (), the Night Owl. The Season of Long Night.
• Wildsear (), the Wildfire Wolf
• Ygra (), which turns natural life around it into pillars of salt.

Minor Calamities

There are also non-legendary minor Calamity Beasts that the inhabitants of Bloomburrow have named. The most notable are:

• The Blight Snake () represented by Rottenmouth Viper, causes nature to decay around it.
• The Sun Hawk () represented by Pyreswipe Hawk, known as the harbinger of Summer.
• The Drought Cat () represented by Sunspine Lynx.
• The Blizzard Elk () represented by Galewind Moose, known as the harbinger of Winter.

Trivia

• Although Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest was part of the cycle of Calamity Beast cards in Bloomburrow, the set's story is explicit that Dragonhawk itself is not considered a Calamity Beast on the plane, likely due to the fact it is neither an elemental nor native to Bloomburrow.
• During design, Calamity Beasts were originally referred to as "Predators."

In-game references

Represented in:

• Beza, the Bounding Spring ()
• Driftgloom Coyote ()
• Sandcloud Harbinger ()
• Eddymurk Crab ()
• Eluge, the Shoreless Sea ()
• Huskburster Swarm ()
• Maha, Its Feathers Night ()
• Putrefying Rotboar ()
• Rottenmouth Viper ()
• Quaketusk Boar ()
• Pyreswipe Hawk ()
• Sunspine Lynx ()
• Fecund Greenshell ()
• Galewind Moose ()
• Evercoat Ursine ()
• Hivespine Wolverine ()
• Lumra, Bellow of the Woods ()
• Wildsear, Scouring Maw ()
• Ygra, Eater of All ()

Associated cards:

• Calamitous Tide
• Calamity of Cinders
• Glarb, Calamity's Augur
• Portent of Calamity
• Repel Calamity

Depicted in:

• Banishing Light (Bloomburrow)
• Beastmaster Ascension
• Brave Meadowguard
• Cruelclaw's Heist
• Crumb and Get It
• Dawn's Truce
• Dire Downdraft
• Diresight
• Fell
• Kindred Charge (Special Guests, #58)
• Long River's Pull
• Martial Impetus
• Perch Protection
• Savor
• Season of the Bold
• Season of the Burrow
• Season of Loss
• Sunbird's Invocation

Referred to:

• Baleful Strix (Bloomburrow Commander)
• Blasphemous Act (Bloomburrow Commander)
• Brambleguard Captain
• Chart a Course (Bloomburrow Commander)
• Corpseberry Cultivator
• Curious Forager
• Dour Port-Mage
• Fountainport Bell
• Galewind Moose
• Heirloom Epic
• Mabel's Mettle
• Quaketusk Boar
• Rabid Gnaw
• Second Harvest (Bloomburrow Commander)
• Tender Wildguide
• Trailtracker Scout
• Uncharted Haven (Bloomburrow)
• Valley Mightcaller
• Valley Questcaller

Critters Representation:

• Ant Queen
• The Gitrog Monster
• Luminous Broodmoth