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 book. A giant flying one of these animals named Mord terrorizes the ruined city in which Jeff VanderMeer's novel Borne is set. Anna Kos 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 human mannerisms, they lose their natural ability to sense deceit. A race of these animals who use sky-iron to craft their armor rule Svalbard in that trilogy, whose protagonist (-5[2])destroys the Bolvangar (10[1])research station with the help of one of them named Iorek; that trilogy is Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. For 10 points, one of what animals says “We didn’t realize we were making memories. We just thought we were having fun” in a book set in the Hundred Acre Wood? ■END■ (10[2])