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Kate’s Supernatural Creatures Quiz

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Hi everyone, Mod R here.

House Andrews, as you know, are hard at work on new projects (some of you have guessed which), and with a release approaching, I thought it was time for another quintessentially chernobogian quiz by yours truly.

Disclaimer: You know I set tricky questions. l love you…but I’m also evil. It’s all intended for entertainment though and doesn’t actually mean anything. Should it prompt you to do a reread, oh well, someone has to sacrifice. But please don’t go through with the quiz if you think the result could make you real-life upset.

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Kate's Supernatural Creatures Quiz

The way things are going, magic is probably about to crash into our world and send it spinning. Are you ready to face the creatures it will awaken? Take the quiz and find out if your know-how will get you through the Shift.

1 / 10

You develop a crush on a weretiger and want to impress them with your insight into their kind. How many categories of shifters are there?

2 / 10

How would you recognise an upir?

3 / 10

You need to hire Saiman for his expertise and he'll meet with you in his true form. How do you recognise him?

4 / 10

How many dragons are there in the Kate Daniels World books (so both Kate and other character POVs)?

5 / 10

You’re getting ready for the summer solstice celebrations tomorrow, enjoying the peaceful song of a nightingale, when a bright falling star lands not far from your house. Your friend, Jimothy, wants to investigate:

6 / 10

How can you spot an ancient vampire?

7 / 10

There’s a a large bird in a tree outside your house. Her head, hair and chest are human, and she wears a crown:

8 / 10

Your friend is wounded in a physical fight against a god, and swears it happened outside a flare. It’s possible, if:

 

9 / 10

You’ve decided the post-Shift city life isn’t for you, so you retreat to the forest. One day, a viciously shrill noise starts to split the trees around you and it’s so loud you can feel your ears start to bleed:

10 / 10

Bonus question not related to Kate Daniels, I just want to prove a point: Is a griffin a bird or a mammal?

Your score is

I was going to post just brief answers in the comments, but seeing how there are requests for in-depth explanations, here they are.

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  1. @mod R – Is there some sort of lore tracker you have access to, or did you just know these things?!?! incredible! (also, if there is a lore tracker, how would one go about inquiring about access to it? I’ve always wanted to run a dnd campaign set within Kate’s world but would be easier with some sort of cheat sheet)

    • The lore tracker is being plugged into the BDH, I’m afraid 😅.
      Most of these are devised around bits people are recurrently confused about, because I like to do double duty with my quizzes hehe.
      For example, every now and again someone will post and say “Wouldn’t Kate just be able to defeat the Upir with Slayer in Magic Bites? It’s made of bone.”, so I knew there should be a trap question about him being afraid of bones in general, rather than specifically bones of his prey, which are actually the only ones that can affect him.
      And others are just subjectively the things I like the most, which obv will differ from person to person. You’ll notice a predilection for Eastern European mythology questions- because I’m Eastern European 😅.

  2. I received 22.2% and I love my score because, for me, the snarky options were the most fun to pick. Where else can you take a quiz, have a blast, and there aren’t any “ripper cushions” Go Mod R!!!!

  3. Re-reading for the tenth time from Magic Triumphs:

    Christopher’s expression sharpened, growing somehow more fragile. “The two of you only remember the man in the cage. Before that I was the Legatus of the Golden Legion. I murdered my way to the top. I committed atrocities. And unlike Hugh, I have nobody to blame but myself. I own everything I’ve done. I did it because I wanted power. I must live with it. Hugh lives with his memories. It will be his choice to atone for what he has done, or not. But I’ve forgiven Hugh, because if I don’t forgive him, there is no hope for forgiveness for someone like me.”

    Can’t answer that. I’ve my own anchors.

  6. I have been there. With 20 people in the ER. All saying to my daughter say goodbye.
    I’m still here, five years later. Million to one odds.
    I thank my family.

    • They exist but they’re not heavily featured in the books. We hear other descriptions of dragons at times, Persian dragons, proto-dragons etc, but I (semi-fairly) went with the ones that at least make a more substantial appearance- in fight scenes or memorable dragon kisses moments 😉

  8. 77.78%! That was fun!
    You are tricksy Mod R! Please keep giving us more quizzes whenever you’re up to making one. 😁
    Now to go read the explanations…

  13. Well that was meh. Lol I didn’t do awful but not good either. I haven’t read the newer ones just yet so I had to guess on those.

  15. Gryphons are definitely mammals. Is anybody expecting an egg to come out of the lion part?

    • Thank you! That’s exactly my reasoning too.
      Pliny the Elder says that griffins lay eggs, but his writings are, as scholars delicately put it, of “uneven accuracy”.
      I’m not letting a person who thought headaches can be cured by tying a fox phallus to one’s forehead contradict my logic!

      • No comment to the third sentence. All I’m doing is this: 😲🤣🤣🤦‍♀️

  16. Loved it Mod R, well done!

    Only 44% but I did pick a lot of fun answers as opposed to thinking about it 😀

  18. Wow, thanks! I could only come up with 3 dragons, so that answer was especially interesting. Need to go back and reread Magic Mourns! I have no memory of the three headed dragon at all, altho I do remember her eating the apple. And I totally forgot about Sirin, too. Fun quiz!

  19. Well done!
    You sleep with Bullfinch’s Mythology under your pillow and it shows. All your friends come to you with their magical creature problems; you can spot a badzula by smell alone and a marakihan even in stormy waters. You have promising career opportunities with both the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid and the Guild of Mercenaries.
    Your score is 77.78%

    Considering Ilona got that, I don’t think I can complain about my score. 😀

    • I missed 1 and 7. I considered the right answer on both of them, but wasn’t sure.

  20. Shouldn’t “chernobogian” be capitalized, since it’s based on a proper noun?

    (Not a grammar Nazi, more of a grammar Storm Trooper.)

  21. Okay, so, this is awesome. And griffins are mammals, they “lay” babies and that’s that. I started with ~33%, reset & then got ~66% (hehe) and then just played around till I read the answers to finally get 100%. But I wanted to read all the different results, which were super super fun as well. This is the best-est thing on all of the internet this week. The best-est.

  23. Love the quiz! More fun like this, please! Sometimes the “wrong” answers were so good I had to pick them (like the vampire question!) Even with picking out some more playful/evil/hilarious answers, at least I survived the Shift! 🐱

  25. I did better the second time. 77.78%. I can apply for the Knights or Mercenaries. Decisions, decisions.

  27. i couldn’t resist some of your lovely choices Mod R, they deserved to be chosen despite being obviously fun answers (like a Lady deserves to grow feathers and chill in a tree) that totally cracked me up.
    Thank you for treating us to this fun quiz, I got 55,x% and a cat meme on top, had lots of fun and not enough dragons and really hope for more quiz posts in the future. Kudos to our KD encyclopedia, she of the cute avatars, our lovely Horde wrangler Mod R 🐲

  28. Huh. 66 percent. Guess I would not last that long, cuz I’d run up against something I didn’t know how to deal with, pretty quick like! Fun though. And made me think about the plots!

  30. Awesome quizz Mod R! 33% so of course I immediately went to read the answers, clearly need to up my knowledge! 😆

  32. i totally agree, keep the quizzes coming

    on a separate question and totally unrelated question, ” where is Grendel?” I don’t remember what happened to him.

  33. Wow – 88.something!! I read books, drink tea, and know things!
    soooooo much fun, thank you so much!

    … oh wait, you’re not supposed to take it more than once, giving your other preferred answers, just for fun?

  34. If I were a character my name would be Whimzee Chaositty because I picked the fun answers without concern as to meaning. Fun, fun fun Mod R! Please don’t stop!

  35. it said I need to re read and true is I’ve been considering it for some weeks I can’t find anything else I like but also I fell like I know this books from memory

  38. Oooh. technically 6 dragons, but I’m currently reading Magic Shifts –
    “a draconic” I said, out of the frying pan into the fire.
    “why is that bad?” Julie asked.
    “there have been four documented sightings of a real dragon,” Luther said. “they are the UFOs of our age…
    So, how come if there are only 4 documented sightings Kate world books have managed 6?!? even if it is only technically.

    • The answers are linked in a separate note 🙂.
      There are more books after Magic Shifts and Luther, against all evidence, does not know all.

  39. 33%. Not so bad since I do tend to skip details and concentrate on the action when reading. I got into that bad habit as a teenager when I was into Harlequins, technical-sounding sci-fi books like Isamov, etc…

    • Kate and Curran get married in Magic Binds and their son, Conlan, appears in the next book, Magic Triumphs.

  41. I’m a little late to the game, but I LOVED this quiz – so very tricky😈! Bravo Mod R!👏👏👏