History FanFic / PrinceStaghornsKnownWorld

* ShoutOut: There's a tree in Boardor that grows lemons which burst into flame when disturbed, a squid-like beast in Equestria that's essentially one giant homage to ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', even an abandoned griffin fortress known as Brodubiena, or as it's translated from Griffonese... Boatmurdered. Yes, [[LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}} THAT]] one.

** Also, D&D's Owlbears make an appearance.

** Case in point is that [[spoiler: Breezies are mostly CARNIVOROUS. Sure, it's small things, but they're still predators!]]
** In a similar vein, in Neighpon (the setting equivalent to Japan), all magical beings besides kirin and changelings were lumped together as 'yokai'; earth pony and pegasus explorers were given the same classification as well before the two races made formal contact with one another.

** They're equines related to changelings, coming in the usual High, Dark, and Wood varieties, along with Orcs, Falmer-like cave elves, cliff elves, desert elves, and "gully elves". Subverted in that they don't think of themselves "better" than other species.
** Certain types of deer, such as elk, [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 eldar]] and the now-extinct megaloceri also fit the "elf" role. In fact, a thread detailing a war that began their fall from power is pretty much a ShoutOut to Literature/TheSilmarillion.

* OurOrcsAreDifferent: There are two kinds. One is a type of elf, and has a strict honor system. By contrast, the Orks are a type of pig that are blatantly based on those in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. During the War of the Deer, two further varieties were created by crossbreeding the first type of Orcs with bicorns to serve as soldier races; the fierce but isolationist Urgals and the vicious Uruk-hai.

** The Known World has {{megalodon}}s of various types, hyper-aggressive wolverine sharks, two-headed sharks, and isonades from Japanese myth, among others.

* PteroSoarer: Averted, subverted, and invoked with the various extant pterosaurs. Most have some sort of covering, and overall follow actual paleontological evidence. Bipedal species are handwaved as having had 65 million years to have evolved unique features.

* TyrannosaurusRex: Averted, as the actual species died 65 million years ago. However, over 20 species of extant tyrannosaur exist, ranging from small Guanlong-like forms to scavenging giants that specialize in eating bones to enormous predators with wool-like feathers and saber-like teeth to a flying fire-breathing form that can bring down dragons.

* AllTrollsAreDifferent: They’re apelike synapsid mammal-reptiles, to begin with, and include both sapient species and animals. Animalistic trolls include [[Creator/HPLovecraft gugs]], rakshasas, and frost trolls, while river, night and island trolls are sapient.

** Special mention goes to the Oniguma, a Neighponese bear that can move rocks that 10 stallions together can’t push, and a taste for equine flesh.

* KrakenAndLeviathan: Literal krakens and leviathans are both present in the setting as, respectively, a giant squid that creates whirlpools and preys on anything it can catch and a large, aggressive baleen whale. Besides them, there’s great variety of various other giant squids and whales.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: They're intelligent humanoid butterflies, ranging from pony-sized to a foot tall, that came in two broad varieties, air fairies and flightless ground fairies. The first kind included various typical sprites, in addition to species resembling TheGreys and TheFlatwoodsMonster. The second variety included leprechauns, goblins and brownies among others. There were also sea fairies with lobster-like tails, including the 18-foot-long umi-bozu. For reasons unknown, they went into decline around the time of Luna’s banishment, and are now though to be extinct.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: They’re enormous ponies taller than trees. There used to be several species, but all except Forest Giants, Frost Giants, and ten male Lastrygonians died out for various reasons, although one species ''may'' have survived in the peninsula of Brobdingrag.

* SapientCetaceans: Many sapient cetacean species exist. Sapient dolphins are completely innocent, dividing the world in “fun” and “non-fun” (as applies to them, individually) and being unable to distinguish “right” and “wrong”, which leads to fairly strained relations with their sea pony neighbors. Sapient whales also exist, have more a more developed moral sense, and are extremely protective of sapient dolphins.
* SeaMonster: Plenty. The Known World’s oceans are teeming with giant, aggressive sharks, whales, squid and octopi, sea dragons and prehistoric sea reptiles of every description, including a great many from other works of fiction.

* OurElvesAreBetter: