#codex margaretorum

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“Stunch Puffin”. The final entry of a journal by Hieronymoides Blumb der Proat, Chronicler and hobbyist Stunch Collector. Journal recovered in vicinity of scraps of cloth and bone splinters. No body found.

According to the Codex Margaretorum, the Stunch Puffin is “native to the Klegg River basin. Stunch puffins secrete stunch, a highly sought-after ingredient in Mudgement cuisine. (…) The flavor of stunch has been described as something akin to a blend of warm spices with very strong overtones of cow manure.

Ginkgo fruits are also illegally processed and dyed to be sold as ‘Fool's Stunch’.”

Final figure is a separate study of the tongue-like organ making up the inside of the creature’s mouth.

(Did fanart of one of @frumpytaco’s creatures!)

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The Queen of France

Marie Antoi-Not, Françoise du Poisson (formerly)

“Hearts, Spades, Hearts. Diamonds, Clubs. 4 of Spades.”

Codex Margaretorum pg 188:

The Queen of France is the first successful artificial Margaret to be created. The Queen of France (also known as Marie Antoi-not) is so-called not because she is an actual monarch, but because it is the only thing she is able to say.

She was created when Vatican experimental theologians were bombarding the true Queen of France with RAMPs (Rapidly Accelerating Moose Particles, particles that deities such as the Margarets leave behind) in hopes of turning her into the first artificial Margaret– a truly powerful weapon to have on their side.

Instead, in a fit of RAMP-induced rage, the irradiated monarch bit one of her wait staff, causing her to transform into her current state. Elite Assault Cardinals were unable to capture her and she destroyed the facility.

The Eiffel tower in this universe has been unusable since the 1930s due to her creation, escape, and takeover of the structure, being highly hostile to anyone who tries coming near.

When using powerful magic such as her Papalysis Ray, her head unfurls and opens up. The Papalysis ray causes papacin (the hormone all Pope-like entities and their cardinals produce from their papulae) to decay in a catastrophic exothermic reaction.

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Bag Margaret:

“Bagræt”: The City of Angels

Rule, architecture, progression, Birth heralded by the ascension of The Tower.

The second daughter of EmPtA pOmPtA, and the most massive of all of the Margarets. Bag Margaret, or “Bagræt” floats freely above the surfaces of Earth and Ploapatopia at her own whim. Originally covered in bizarre and otherworldly iron and clay structures and forms, she now hosts an upside down city of clay and various minerals harvested from the deep sea by her coven, the ɴuɴs*.

One of her abilities is to resize any object at will, granted that she is able to borrow mass from clay in order to conserve energy. Inexplicably, she only uses this ability on hats, which she makes large enough to wear herself.

She is inhabited by the descendants of a population of about 10,000 former members of Mudgement who sought out to escape the tyranny of Moose Margaret in Mudgement in exchange for her own unique but different brand of tyranny; In exchange for The Pact, the citizens to inhabit her were required to wear whichever fancy headwear she dictated that week, while former members of Moose Margaret’s coven were transformed into the ɴuɴs; forms suited for life in the deep sea life in order to mine deep sea raw materials.

*the ɴuɴs have never been observed alive; they suffer explosive decompression when brought up from the deep sea.  

[Original crochet effigy by @frumpytaco]

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The Hoomy Thrutmunk is also known by Mudgemite locals as "Old Man Drowning In My Aspic Barrel", a moniker earned from commonly finding the greyhound-sized omnivores drowned in aspic fermentation barrels in an attempt at a mating ritual.

As the mating rituals are 100-percent fatal to the creatures themselves, all living Thrutmunks are the result of parthenogenesis and not genetic recombination.