Creatures of Haven

The creatures list and information has been taken from The Artemis Fowl Files.

Elves

Distinguishing Features:
About three feet tall
Pointy ears
Brown skin
Red hair

Character:
Intelligent
Strong sense of right and wrong
Very loyal
Sarcastic sense of humor, although that might just be characteristic of one particular female LEP officer

Loves: Flying, either in a craft or with wings

Situations to avoid:
They really don’t like it if you kidnap them and take their gold.

Dwarfs*

Distinguishing features:
Short, round, and hariy
Large tombstone teeth—good for grinding…well, anything really
Unhingable jaws enabling them to excavate tunnels
Sensitive beard hair
Skin capable of acting like suction cups when dehydrated
Smelly

Character:
Sensitive
Intelligent
Criminal tendencies

Loves:
Gold and precious gems
Tunneling
The dark

Situations to avoid:
Being in a confined space with them when they have been tunneling and have a buildup of trapped air. If they reach for the bum flap on their trousers, get out of there…

Trolls

Distinguishing features:
Huge—as big as an elephant
Light-sensitive eyes
Hate noise
Hairy, with dreadlocks
Retractable claws
Teeth!—lots and lots of teeth
Tusks like a wild boar (a really wild boar)
Green tongue
Exceptionally strong
Weak point at the base of the skull

Character:
Very, very stupid—trolls have tiny brains
Mean and bad-tempered

Loves:
Eating—anything. A couple of cows would make a light snack

Situations to avoid:
Are you joking? If you even think a troll is near, run like the wind.

Goblins

Distinguishing features:
Scaly
Lidless eyes—they lick their eyeballs to keep them moist
Able to throw fireballs
They go on all fours when speed is important
Forked tongue
Less than three feet tall
Slimy, fireproof skin

Character:
Not clever, but cunning
Argumentative
Ambitious
Power-hungry

Loves:
Fire
A good argument
Power

Situations to avoid:
Don’t get in the way if they’re throwing a fireball.

Centaurs

Distinguishing features:
Half man, half pony
Hairy—obviously!
Hooves can get very dry

Character:
Extremely intelligent
Vain
Paranoid
Kind
Computer geek

Loves:
Showing off
Inventing

Situations to avoid:
They aren’t very dangerous physically, but they will sulk if you criticize their latest invention, mess with their hard drive, or borrow their hoof moisturizer.

Sprites

Distinguishing features:
About three feet tall
Pointy ears
Green skin
Wings

Character: Average intelligence
Generally happy-go-lucky attitude

Loves:
Flying—more than anything else under or above the earth

Situations to avoid:
Watch out for low-flying sprites—they don’t always look where they’re going.

Pixies:

Distinguishing features:
About three feet tall
Pointy ears
Apart from their ears and their height, pixies look almost human

Character:
Extremely intelligent
No morals
Cunning
Ambitious
Greedy

Loves:
Power and money
Chocolate

Situations to avoid:
Never get on the wrong side of a pixie, especially one as clever and ruthless as Opal Koboi, unless you are as brilliant as Artemis Fowl, of course.

*=The plural form of the word dwarf would grammatically be dwarves, however both dwarfs and dwarves are correct.