He chuckles dryly. "Actually, none of those creatures are native. They are all the product of one of our greatest creators, the late Lahabrea. He excelled in phantomology, the creation of unknown beasts."

He comes to the spiral structure that the other man points out however, gazing at it wistfully. "This, however - this was simply the symbol of our seat of learning and creation: Akademia Anyder. The shell from which the waters of knowledge were said to flow."