Creature Speculation, Splizard and Ravoon

Creature concepts from 2 running jokes regarding the ‘Ballad of Lost Hollow’ series by Paul Shapera.

A ‘Splizard’ evolved from the joke that a character got confused by what was a spider and what was a lizard, so why not have a creature that is both

‘Ravoon’ started as a small quadruped who was rather cute, but I was challenged to fit him into a verticals space so that needed to change, here he has some disturbingly human limb proportions and it’s left entirely ambiguous as to what his legs are made of