After a corrupt one of these animals named Saltpetre assassinates their king, they leave a city for the mountains of Sicily in a Dino Buzzati children's (15[1])book. (15[1])A giant flying one of these (15[1])animals named Mord terrorizes the ruined city (15[1])in which Jeff (15[1])VanderMeer's novel Borne is set. (15[1])Anna Kos (15[1])is accompanied by one of these animals in Jakub Rozalski's 1920+ world, which inspired the board game (*) Scythe. In a trilogy, as these animals adopt (10[1])human mannerisms, they lose their natural ability to sense deceit. A race of these animals who use sky-iron to craft their armor (10[1])rule Svalbard in that (10[1])trilogy, (10[3])whose (10[1])protagonist (10[2])destroys the Bolvangar research station with the help of one of them named Iorek; that trilogy is Philip Pullman's (10[1])His Dark Materials. (10[1])For 10 points, one of what animals says “We didn’t realize we were making memories. We just thought we were having fun” (10[1])in a book set in the Hundred Acre Wood? ■END■ (10[1])