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** ''TabletopGames/MummyTheCurse'' has Last Dynasty, Inc, which has found that Sekhem, the energy that reflects the strength of a mummy's connection to life and magic, can be used to create healthier steroids, life extension treatments, and vaccines. They have become a pharmaceutical firm dedicated to making the world a better place, even if it means they have to reap this energy from mummies and the sacred artifacts they protect.

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** Cacodaemons can create soul gems when they consume a living being. This ability is valued by fiends and evil spellcasters alike, who often keep cacodaemons as living soul gem manufacturers.



** Cacodaemons can create soul gems when they consume a living being. This ability is valued by fiends and evil spellcasters alike, who often keep cacodaemons as living soul gem manufacturers.

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** Cacodaemons can create soul gems when they consume a living being. This ability In the fifth part of the ''Agents of Edgewatch'' Adventure Path, ''Belly of the Black Whale'', the main villain is valued by fiends revealed to have captured and evil spellcasters alike, who often keep cacodaemons as living soul gem manufacturers.enslaved his former kraken master, whom he has spitefully hooked up to a complex machine that constantly drains his ink to use to produce the tabloids that the villain is using to secretly control society.
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* ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'': One episode involves a new drug called Black Crystal, that makes a human feel the high of being a vampire for a few hours. Naturally, it's produced by "milking" vampires. Unfortunately, keeping vampires sedate involves poisoning them with high amounts of silver, which make its way into the drug, eventually resulting in silver poisoning in the humans who take it. The "drug farm" was maintained by a 700-year-old vampire named Lola (a former PirateGirl), who has no compunctions about using fellow vampires for this purpose.

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* ''Series/{{Moonlight}}'': ''Series/Moonlight2007'': One episode involves a new drug called Black Crystal, that makes a human feel the high of being a vampire for a few hours. Naturally, it's produced by "milking" vampires. Unfortunately, keeping vampires sedate involves poisoning them with high amounts of silver, which make its way into the drug, eventually resulting in silver poisoning in the humans who take it. The "drug farm" was maintained by a 700-year-old vampire named Lola (a former PirateGirl), who has no compunctions about using fellow vampires for this purpose.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': Ghouls, humans heavily scarred and deformed by radiation, [[RadiationImmuneMutants are healed by further exposure to radioactive emissions]]. Consequently, in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', the Chop Shop infirmary keeps a pair of caged glowing ones -- ghouls so irradiated that they became mindless and feral and literally glow green -- around as a source of radiation with which to heal ghoul patients.
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** In [[WebVideo/CriticalRole Exandria]], the town of Tomb of the Worm was founded by settlers who found part of an EldritchAbomination's body poking through the ice of the tundra, and discovered that it's meat could be harvested and eaten as it quickly grew back. The abomination, Quajath the Undermaw, tolerates being eaten in this manner since it makes the townsfolk susceptible to being mind controlled and becoming his cultists.
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* ''Film/TheFieldGuideToEvil'': In "What Ever Happened to Panagas the Pagan?", the goblin bleeds an incredibly intoxicating wine that, according to legend, can send the drinker mad.
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* In ''Operación Bolívar'', a Mexican graphic novel, the protagonist is a dedicated angel hunter, who basically butchers angels to sell their immensely profitable body parts - ''everything'' from an angel's corpse has extremely valuable properties, from the hair to the blood. Part of the story's conflict starts when the threat of dragon scales begins creeping from Asia, and the attempted response is a plan to turn angels into a massively farmed species.


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* Every single monster giblet you collect in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'' can be sold to the R&D lab to be turned into a component for new armor or weapons.
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* ''WebOriginal/MysteryFleshPitNationalPark'': Up until 2007, [[MegaCorp Anodyne]] were extracting fluid from the Pit's [[BizarreAlienBiology ballast bulbs]], mining building materials from its skeleton and ''marketing the whole thing as a tourist attraction''.

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* ''WebOriginal/MysteryFleshPitNationalPark'': The titular Mystery Flesh Pit is an indescribably vast, sessile macro-organism inhabiting the Permian Basin in west Texas. Up until 2007, [[MegaCorp Anodyne]] were extracting fluid from the Pit's [[BizarreAlienBiology ballast bulbs]], mining building materials from its skeleton and ''marketing the whole thing as a tourist attraction''.attraction'', including guided tours into the thing’s interior.
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* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', it is revealed that one of the many ways in which the [[{{Magitek}} magiteknology]] of [[CrystalSpiresAndTogas Allag]] was advanced was in their ability to harness primals, semi-sentient masses of aether in the form of ancient gods, as power sources. The artificial moon of Dalamud was part of a project to harness the power of the imprisoned Bahamut to power the entire Allagan civilization through the Crystal Tower, but [[EvilIsNotAToy it only resulted in the sixth Umbral Calamity]]. The Ultima Weapon, similarly, can increase its power by absorbing primals, although this has the unfortunate side effect of priming the Weapon's FantasticNuke.
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* ''WebOriginal/MysteryFleshPitNationalPark'': Up until 2007, [[MegaCorp Anodyne]] were extracting fluid from the Pit's [[BizarreAlienBiology ballast bulbs]], mining building materials from its skeleton and ''marketing the whole thing as a tourist attraction''.
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* ''LightNovel/ASimpleSurvey'': One story revolves around this. The narrator is a professor who specializes in researching monsters that become pests to human society. By finding ways to profit off them, he can create an incentive for peasants to hunt the monsters and keep their populations in check. In the story, he and his assistant dissect a troll and discover uses for its stomach acid and liver. [[spoiler:But releasing this information doesn't have the intended effect. The peasants, instead of killing the trolls, gather the materials non-lethally (by forcing the trolls to vomit out acid, and cutting away pieces of the liver at a time). On top of that, they've even started setting out food for the trolls, increasing their population]].

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* ''LightNovel/ASimpleSurvey'': One story revolves around this. The narrator is a professor who specializes in researching monsters that become pests to human society. By finding ways to profit off them, he can create an incentive for peasants to hunt the monsters and keep their populations in check. In the story, he and his assistant dissect a troll and discover uses for its stomach acid and liver. [[spoiler:But releasing this information [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect doesn't have the intended effect.effect]]. The peasants, instead of killing the trolls, gather the materials non-lethally (by forcing the trolls to vomit out acid, and cutting away pieces of the liver at a time). On top of that, they've even started setting out food for the trolls, increasing their population]].
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* In ''Literature/ColdfireTrilogy'', the Forest is a very dangerous place since it's the Hunter's domain. People live near it and venture into it anyway because the Forest, due to the Hunter altering its ecosystem for centuries to suit him, is also home to unique flora and fauna that don't exist anywhere else. For example, there's a breed of wolf that only lives in the Forest with pelts so beautiful that people will pay a small fortune for them. One can make a good living gathering and hunting in the Forest as long as one pays the Hunter due respect.
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* ''[[http://www.saltinwoundssetting.com/ Salt in Wounds]]'' is a third party ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting based on the idea of the Tarrasque -- an immense, effectively unkillable behemoth that serves as ''D&D''[='=]s iconic "top monster" -- being bound in a canyon with enchanted harpoons and then used as a source of eternally regenerating meat, horn, bone magical reagents. An entire city grew around the trapped beast, with entire orders of butchers arising to carve away into its flesh to then sell off across the world.

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* ''[[http://www.saltinwoundssetting.com/ Salt in Wounds]]'' is a third party ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting based on the idea of the Tarrasque -- an immense, effectively unkillable behemoth that serves as ''D&D''[='=]s iconic "top monster" -- being bound in a canyon with enchanted harpoons and then used as a source of eternally regenerating meat, horn, bone and magical reagents. An entire city grew around the trapped beast, with entire orders of butchers arising to carve away into its flesh to then sell off across the world.
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* [[http://www.saltinwoundssetting.com/ This campaign setting]]. Originally [[LordBritishPostulate begun as a fan thread]]. Now it's an entire city state dedicated to mainlining Tarrasque!

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* [[http://www.''[[http://www.saltinwoundssetting.com/ This campaign setting]]. Originally [[LordBritishPostulate begun Salt in Wounds]]'' is a third party ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting based on the idea of the Tarrasque -- an immense, effectively unkillable behemoth that serves as ''D&D''[='=]s iconic "top monster" -- being bound in a canyon with enchanted harpoons and then used as a fan thread]]. Now it's an source of eternally regenerating meat, horn, bone magical reagents. An entire city state dedicated grew around the trapped beast, with entire orders of butchers arising to mainlining Tarrasque!carve away into its flesh to then sell off across the world.
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** The bodies of furcifers, immense chameleon-like beasts with flowers growing from their backs, are extremely rich in valuable materials -- their pollen and nectar can be used to make psychoactive drugs, their bones can be used to magic items related to acid, and their skin fashioned into cloaks and robes with illusory properties.
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* [[http://www.saltinwoundssetting.com/ This campaign setting]]. Originally [[LordBritishPostulate begun as a fan thread]]. Now it's an entire city state dedicated to mainlining Tarrasque!
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* In the firefighters-vs-dragons novel ''Smoke Eaters'', a derivative of dragon blood proves to have remarkable healing properties, and to immunize humans who receive it via transfusion against the choking effects of dragon smoke. Once this is demonstrated, the titular anti-dragon crews shift tactics from exterminating the ferocious beasts to capturing them alive as blood donors.
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* In ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'', [[BigBad the Ancestor]] had a DecadentCourt of incredibly hedonistic and carefree nobles, known simply as the Court. [[ForTheEvilz For pure sport,]] the Ancestor attempted to kill a visiting noblewoman known as the Countess, [[GlamourFailure who turned out]] to be [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a colossal and ancient insect-like vampire queen]]. After wounding her, he added her blood to the wine served at the Court, for pure hedonistic excitement. [[BodyHorror Those nobles who drank the wine turned into mosquito-like vampires]], while the Ancestor took a single taste of it, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation revealing the eldritch horrors of the world to him]] and [[StartOfDarkness starting him down the path to unearthing the titular Darkest Dungeon.]]

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* In ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'', [[BigBad the Ancestor]] had a DecadentCourt of incredibly hedonistic and carefree nobles, known simply as the Court. [[ForTheEvilz [[ForTheEvulz For pure sport,]] the Ancestor attempted to kill a visiting noblewoman known as the Countess, [[GlamourFailure who turned out]] to be [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a colossal and ancient insect-like vampire queen]]. After wounding her, he added her blood to the wine served at the Court, for pure hedonistic excitement. [[BodyHorror Those nobles who drank the wine turned into mosquito-like vampires]], while the Ancestor took a single taste of it, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation revealing the eldritch horrors of the world to him]] and [[StartOfDarkness starting him down the path to unearthing the titular Darkest Dungeon.]]
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* In ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'', [[BigBad the Ancestor]] had a DecadentCourt of incredibly hedonistic and carefree nobles, known simply as the Court. [[ForTheEvilz For pure sport,]] the Ancestor attempted to kill a visiting noblewoman known as the Countess, [[GlamourFailure who turned out]] to be [[OurVampiresAreDifferent a colossal and ancient insect-like vampire queen]]. After wounding her, he added her blood to the wine served at the Court, for pure hedonistic excitement. [[BodyHorror Those nobles who drank the wine turned into mosquito-like vampires]], while the Ancestor took a single taste of it, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation revealing the eldritch horrors of the world to him]] and [[StartOfDarkness starting him down the path to unearthing the titular Darkest Dungeon.]]
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* ''Literature/TheDarkProfitSaga'': One magical weapons manufacturer tempers their swords in the blood of a fire drake, which is kept chained up and constantly bled slowly in their factory.
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* ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'': the source of power for the Galar region, in addition to the source of the Dynamax phenomenon, is Wishing Stars, mysterious stones that emit Galar particles. As it turns out, [[spoiler:Wishing Stars are actually fragments of Eternatus, an ancient and powerful Pokémon that nearly destroyed Galar in ancient times before being laid low by Zacian and Zamazenta. Rose, the Chairman of Marcos Cosmos and the game's BigBad, wants to harness Eternatus as a perpetual power source for Galar. [[EvilIsNotAToy It doesn't work.]]]]
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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' reveals the [[FunWithAcronyms Project T.A.H.I.T.I.]] that revived Agent Coulson revolves around draining the fluids from a Kree corpse. One of those was the regenerative serum that causes terrible psychological consequences unless the test subject's memories are changed.

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* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' reveals the [[FunWithAcronyms Project T.A.H.I.T.I.]] that revived Agent Coulson revolves around draining the fluids from a Kree corpse. One of those was the regenerative serum that causes terrible psychological consequences unless the test subject's memories are changed. And this was apparently the ''least'' horrific serum.
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This is one of the rare instances where the horde/hoard confusion is arguable, but I'm still changing it. A "horde" is a large group of monsters, a "hoard" is a large collection of treasure.


* In ''Literature/{{Updraft}}'', skymouths ([[InvisibleMonsters invisible flying tentacled maws]]) are highly dangerous, but also provide useful materials; in particular, sinew which allows the construction of bridges between the towers which constitute the city. Singers, who are responsible for protecting the city, maintain some of their clout thanks to the prosperity this sinew brings them. It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the Singers are secretly breeding a hoard of captive skymouths rather than killing them in the course of protecting the city, as they claim]].

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* In ''Literature/{{Updraft}}'', skymouths ([[InvisibleMonsters invisible flying tentacled maws]]) are highly dangerous, but also provide useful materials; in particular, sinew which allows the construction of bridges between the towers which constitute the city. Singers, who are responsible for protecting the city, maintain some of their clout thanks to the prosperity this sinew brings them. It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the Singers are secretly breeding a hoard horde of captive skymouths rather than killing them in the course of protecting the city, as they claim]].

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* ''Webcomic/ThisIsTheWorstIdeaYouveEverHad'' has Nai'ka blood, which gives the imbiber magic power, at the cost of "burnout". Nai'ka are a race of naive cat-folk who usually don't comprehend hurting people. The practice is illegal, but since they're [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman not considered people,]] it continues relatively unchecked.

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* ''Webcomic/ThisIsTheWorstIdeaYouveEverHad'' has Nai'ka blood, which gives the imbiber magic power, at the cost of "burnout". Nai'ka are a race of naive cat-folk who usually don't comprehend hurting people. The practice is illegal, but but, since they're [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman not considered people,]] people]], it continues relatively unchecked.unchecked.
* ''Webcomic/ZombieRanch'': Zombie blood turns out to have a myriad medical and industrial uses, leading to the existence of extensive farming operations where herds of zombies are corralled, fed and harvested to ensure a steady stream of high-quality undead blood.
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* In''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': [[ThePrecursors First Age]] bioengineers created a breed of dinosaurs that can consume plants containing useful substances, process them in their bodies and pee out the refined chemical, which they farmed as living chemical refineries. Many breeds were created, each meant to produce a different substance, but most went extinct after the fall of the First Age civilization. Some still exist, however, and are farmed in the same manner as they were bred for -- the most common is one that eats poppies and pees out heroin.

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* In''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': [[ThePrecursors First Age]] bioengineers created a breed of dinosaurs that can consume plants containing useful substances, process them in their bodies and pee out the refined chemical, which they farmed as living chemical refineries. Many breeds were created, each meant to produce a different substance, but most went extinct after the fall of the First Age civilization. Some still exist, however, and are farmed in the same manner as they were bred for -- the most common is one that eats poppies and pees out heroin.

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* In''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': [[ThePrecursors First Age]] bioengineers created a breed of dinosaurs that can consume plants containing useful substances, process them in their bodies and pee out the refined chemical, which they farmed as living chemical refineries. Many breeds were created, each meant to produce a different substance, but most went extinct after the fall of the First Age civilization. Some still exist, however, and are farmed in the same manner as they were bred for -- the most common is one that eats poppies and pees out heroin.



* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', [[AndManGrewProud First Age]] bioengineers created a breed of dinosaur that pees heroin.

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** ''Ultimate Wilderness'' devotes a section to describing potential uses for monster body parts, focusing on how they can be used to replace spell and crafting components -- a devil's tongue, for instance, contains the essence of law and can be used to replace any lawful spells when creating magic items; matter harvested from elementals can used to craft items pertaining to elemental powers or energy damage; troll livers, still holding their owners' HealingFactor, can be used to craft healing items; dragon scales can be used to infuse items with the energy type of the dragon's BreathWeapon; a demon's heart can be used to create any explicitly evil item; and so on.

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** ''Ultimate Wilderness'' devotes a section to describing potential uses for monster body parts, focusing on how they can be used to replace spell and crafting components -- a devil's tongue, for instance, contains the essence of law and can be used to replace any lawful spells when creating magic items; matter harvested from elementals can used to craft items pertaining to elemental powers or energy damage; troll livers, still holding their owners' HealingFactor, can be used to craft healing items; dragon scales the organs that produce a dragon's BreathWeapon can be used to infuse items with the breath weapon's energy type of the dragon's BreathWeapon; type; a demon's heart can be used to create any explicitly evil item; and so on.



* The ''TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness'' game series treats vampire blood as a drug. Consuming a vampire's Vitae gives a mortal access to basic vampire Disciplines and stops the aging process. When the Vitae is expended, aging not only resumes, but catches up, meaning really old ghouls will spontaneously die and crumble to dust if they don't get their fix.
** Three groups from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' use monsters in one way or another:

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blood works as a drug. Consuming a vampire's Vitae gives a mortal access to basic vampire Disciplines and stops the aging process. When the Vitae is expended, aging not only resumes, but catches up, meaning really old ghouls will spontaneously die and crumble to dust if they don't get their fix.
** ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'': Three groups from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' actively use the monsters they hunt in one way or another:
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* In ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', the [[MegaCorp Union Areospace Corporation]] solved a worldwide energy crisis through the discovery of "argent energy" on Mars, which happens to be harvested directly from Hell itself. On the side, the [=UAC=] also dabbles in various ways of ''militarizing'' Hell, such as weapons that utilize argent energy, captive demons augmented with cybernetics, and undead super-soldiers animated by argent radiation.

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