Underground Animal Species

Slaf serpents
Talking snakes often hide in crevices near cave entrances. Rather than fighting physically for the best spots, they can generally talk a trogy or rugrug into giving up their spot. This often comes in handy with travelers too, as slaf serpents can often talk an explorer into disarming himself and removing his armor. Slaf serpents have no food preparation habits, and they are not picky. Their natural enemy is the pebble pig, too dumb to deceive and too feisty to fight against.

Decoy Bats
Crafted by the Elps, these robotic bats were originally supposed to guard the Elp Fortress. However after wiring went wrong in their heads, the bats went rogue and dispersed throughout the cave system. They are essentially buoys with wings. Two sharp metal pikes pack a venomous bite. They have the intelligence of a pocket calculator.

Real Bats
The real bats are constantly at war with the decoy bats, seeing them as inferior. Bats will attack you like mosquitoes, but come on with full force if you get near their nests.

Jellyfish
Living in pools, coves and streams, jellyfish are idiotic electric pudding cups who will electrocute anything that tries to come near them. You can divine their presence by their faint pink glow.

Cave Cats
Black cats with arching backs stalk through the caves, often in solitude. Because pagan cave peoples habitually make use of the cave cats in their rituals and potions, cats have a bad reaction to anything even looking like magic. For this reason, they will attack elpstaffs on sight. They are genial to staffless adventurers.