Tiddalik

Tiddalik is a Fae trickster embodied as an enormous, amphibious frog whose presence reads like a hydrological event. In the field he registers as cool and damp to the touch, smelling of mud, algae and crushed eucalyptus; his breath carries the dry tang of exposed riverbed. Sound is the clearest cue: a single, low, resonant croak that rolls like an emptied waterhole — hollow, drum-like and oddly jubilant. The creature appears solid and heavy, its skin glistening, and yet its behaviour is governed by cunning rather than brute hunger.