The collection
Forty-six creatures, one quiet archive
Folklore from six world regions, each entry attributed to the tradition it actually comes from.
How it opens
Nothing arrives without context
Follow a branch down and you always know where a story sits.
How it opens
Region, tradition, then the creature
Start with a part of the world, step into one of its traditions, and only then meet what lives there.
The connections
Every entry points somewhere else
Wolves lead to wolves, water spirits to water spirits — across cultures that never met.
Your side of it
The collection fills as you read
Entries you open are traced. The rest stay as silhouettes until you reach them.
Asia
Japanese Folklore
Kitsune
In the reading room
Built for stillness, not for streaks
No scores, no daily rewards. Opening an entry marks it traced — and that is the whole of the mechanic.
Museum-label entries
Name, alternate spellings, habitat, origin and traits — then the legends, told version by version rather than blended into one official account.
A map of traditions
Fourteen traditions pinned to a stylised world map. Tap a marker to see its tradition, pinch to zoom, and step straight in.
Related across cultures
Entries that share a theme, a habitat or a shape — often from another part of the world, linked one tap away.
Your collection
Watch the archive fill region by region as you trace entries. Mark favourites to find them again.
One entry a day
Optional: a single daily notice naming the creature on the plinth today, scheduled by your own device.
Offline by design
Text and illustrations are compiled into the app. No account, no sign-in, no connection needed to read.
From the collection
Silhouettes until you reach them
Kitsune and kraken, rusalka and taniwha — every plate illustrated.
Hover or tap a dark plate to trace it.
Six regions · fourteen traditions
Never a vague region
Every creature is attributed to a named tradition — Slavic folklore, Norse legend, Japanese folklore.
Europe 4 traditions
Household spirits, northern legend and the monsters of antiquity.
- Slavic Folklore
- Norse Legend
- Greek Mythology
- Celtic & Irish
Asia 3 traditions
Mountain yokai, serpent courts and the beasts of imperial tales.
- Japanese Folklore
- Indian Tradition
- Chinese Mythology
Middle East 1 tradition
Figures from the ancient Nile, weighed against order and judgement.
- Egyptian Mythology
Africa 2 traditions
Tricksters, guardians and the creatures of river country.
- West African Folklore
- Central African Accounts
Americas 3 traditions
Feathered serpents, winter hungers and the ghosts of the roadside.
- Mesoamerican
- Latin American
- North American
Oceania 1 tradition
Guardians of the water, told in the traditions of the Pacific.
- Māori Tradition
“The archive is fixed: it does not grow while you read, and it does not rearrange itself to keep you busy.”From the colophon
Write to the curator
A correction, a creature, a kind word
Found a tradition misattributed, or a story told only one way when it has several? We read every note.
Or write directly: post@driftsortantartic.site
Step into the archive
Forty-six creatures are waiting on their plinths.
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