Oriana's Bestiary
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Dire Desires #1 by BadElkTales
Fandoms: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Warhammer Fantasy
04 Apr 2026
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Wolfspring warns travelers about the woods beyond Watcher’s Hill. About the dire wolves. About what happens to those who stray too far.
Oriana goes anyway.
What she encounters are not mindless beasts, but predators who watch, who choose, and who know exactly how to take what they want. Their mounting is deliberate. Their attention unsettling. Their restraint—when it comes—feels earned rather than instinctual.
As Oriana pushes deeper into her research, pleasure and danger become inseparable. The wolves do not behave like a spreading curse, nor like animals bound by hunger alone. Their numbers endure. Their memories linger. And beneath every encounter is the quiet suggestion that survival here is not accidental.
Dire Desires opens Oriana’s Bestiary with an intimate descent into a town built over a secret it refuses to name—and monsters who remember what they once were.
This is a rewrite of the first of the original series, but now with plot and world building.
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- Part 1 of Oriana's Bestiary
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Oriana’s pursuit of knowledge takes a dangerous turn when she sets her sights on the Northern Mimic, a creature as elusive as it is deadly. Unlike its lesser kin, this mimic is no mere predator—it is a cunning parasite, seeking a reproductive medium rather than simple prey.
Aldric, ever the cautious scholar, warns her of the risks. Its saliva is acidic. Its form unpredictable. Its methods… invasive. But Oriana is undeterred. With alchemical protections in hand and an insatiable curiosity, she ventures into the ruins where mimics are known to nest.
What she finds is more than a monster. It is intelligent, reactive—testing her as much as she tests it. The dance between predator and researcher blurs, the tension between danger and desire thickening with each calculated move.
Oriana does not intend to fight. She intends to understand. To document. To experience.
And as the mimic begins to recognize her as viable, she realizes—some knowledge demands more than just observation.
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- Part 2 of Oriana's Bestiary
