THE EXODUS CREATURES
There are not a lot of creatures in Exodus, the second novel, but when they do show up, their presence is definitely felt strongly and impact the story significantly.
From the creatures already present in Book I (Crawfish, Glowers) to one of the strangest beings in the entire tetralogy, the Exodus creatures might be few but they are terrifying nonetheless.
DÉCARIE CRAWFISH
The largest specimens are territorial ambush predators previously found in submerged tunnels and submerged sewers in western Montreal. They migrated into the Décarie Trench after the flood initiated by RESO.
Their shells are layered with calcified tumors and parasitic growths strong enough to deflect improvised blades and low-caliber rounds. Heat blooms constantly from their bodies, turning the surrounding water warm and foul-smelling even in winter.
This species is linked to the Sump and was their main food source.
GLOWERS
The Glowers do not hunt the way animals hunt. They apply pressure. Their bodies are a pale green, veins glowing beneath translucent skin like embers trapped under wax. When they focus on someone, the air itself seems to tighten: thoughts slow, muscles misfire, breathing starts to synchronize against your will. The closer they get, the harder it becomes to remember where your own mind ends.
The Glowers are truly Exodus creatures, as we witness the most mutated version so far.
LIME STURGEONS
The Lime Sturgeons of Francon are colossal quarry fish adapted to the calcium-heavy black waters beneath the limestone terraces. Their hides carry a chalk-white sheen, as though the lake itself has begun mineralizing them while they still live. Slow-moving and nearly silent beneath the surface, they drift through the basin with unsettling weight, disturbing the water less like animals and more like submerged machinery. The entire Francon community survives on their flesh, yet the creatures are treated with wary restraint, and their presence is woven into Francon’s fragile balance between survival and collapse.
Those Exodus Creatures are a Francon staple.
THE BLIGHT
The Blight began in the fallout years, feeding on the vast deposits of Strontium-90 left behind by the collapse. For decades it spread quietly through contaminated groundwater and buried fissures, metabolizing radiation the way fungus consumes rot. But when time, weather, and erosion finally reduced the radioactive material, the organism adapted. It turned to calcium instead.
In Francon, where entire quarry walls were carved from limestone, the Blight found an endless replacement source and began consuming the stone itself from below, softening foundations, widening fissures, and slowly hollowing the quarry apart beneath the feet of the people trying to survive above it. The Blight is the strangest of all the Exodus Creatures.
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Stéphane Roy is a lifelong reader and writer with a deep love for science fiction, apocalyptic worlds, and tightly constructed mysteries. This is his first novel. He lives in the Yukon with his dog and his aquarium, where long winters, silence, and wide, sometimes glowing, skies leave plenty of room for imagining the end of the world, and what might come after it. He is also waiting, with cautious optimism, for the aliens to finally reveal themselves and straighten us all out.