Flora and Fauna in a fantasy world

[Sergeandgreen]

Do you guys like it when people add new types of creatures to their stories? I mean nothing like a pheonix or dragon, who are well known, but something completely new. I mean, there are some stories that did it well, like Harry Potter (The Thestral, for example) or Avatar Legend of Aang(Flying Bison or Possumchicken), but the question is, with the pletora and magical creatures out there, do you like it if the author adds some or do you think its unnecessary.
And is this perspective limited to fantasy fauna, or does it extend to the flora as well.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

If it adds to the story, great. If it is just a new name for an old thing, then it was just a waste of space and time. So varies.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I am too lazy to repeat myself, so I will simply put this here.

Are New & Novel Plants ever worth it?

When writing/reading a piece of fantasy, do you believe it makes sense to try and create an entirely new set of flora? I do get the need for novel creatures, the heroes need something to fight and if your protagonist can throw balls of fire, a brown bear isn’t an exciting foe. But when it comes...

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[melchi]

It depends. Every story should have a "main thing" and if the main thing is exploration than it works best.

However if someone is writing a romance novel about a question mark and a raddish and the main thing should be the relationship between the two having lots of extra flora and fauna could easily come across as filler because it doesn't advance the romance plot.

 

[Sergeandgreen]

If it adds to the story, great. If it is just a new name for an old thing, then it was just a waste of space and time. So varies.

I'm talking about the things like the ones i attached. They naturally should fulfill a purpose in the story. But sometimes, i think, just for the sake of world building, it could be nice to add them. If you polish the story afterwards you should naturally exclude those that are nothing more than a useless gimick but lets assume you have them as some kind of enemy in the woods. Would you think its cooler if they fought a bear or goblin or something new.

Ps: the image quality is low because of the upload limitations.

 

[Vnator]

Either a passing line for plants and maybe two for animals if they look really cool but don't actually contribute anything to the story/aren't plot relevant, more if they are or hold some kind of symbolism.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

However if someone is writing a romance novel about a question mark and a raddish and the main thing should be the relationship between the two having lots of extra flora and fauna could easily come across as filler because it doesn't advance the romance plot.

I see what you did here. Sneaky.

 

[Daitengu]

Can't have health and mana potions with just earth based plants and animals after all. And Alraune are already pretty rare.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

I'm fine with either as long as they don't have the exact same animals as earth but just call them different things.

 

[Tsuru]

Do you guys like it when people add new types of creatures to their stories? I mean nothing like a pheonix or dragon, who are well known, but something completely new. I mean, there are some stories that did it well, like Harry Potter (The Thestral, for example) or Avatar Legend of Aang(Flying Bison or Possumchicken), but the question is, with the pletora and magical creatures out there, do you like it if the author adds some or do you think its unnecessary.
And is this perspective limited to fantasy fauna, or does it extend to the flora as well.