No one knew a thing about ballyravens until a couple decades ago. Then, one day, a little, blue creature came from underground and gave humanity a plethora of tapes, books, drawings, and more. A lot of it spoke of mundane or exotic plants and animals, as well as the occasional meandering on a prehistoric beast.

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Most of it, though, was about rare creatures called cryptids, interspersed with mythical beings and magical figures.​

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In the 1990's, a creature dug a hole under a house. From the shadows, they watched and memorized its inhabitant's life, mannerisms; they planned to steal their identity, and they eventually did. Though they needed their form to continue their personal quest, they grew fond of the human they followed. A Ballyraven (shapeshifting species of fae, pwca), they were the first of their kind to purposefully make contact with a human. Before leaving for a new adventure, "Bally" had an idea. They had learned a human language: "English"; while they couldn't speak it, they could write it. In fact, they kept notes and logs in English, as most fae could not read. Translating their life's work, they left them in the human's closet.

 

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The Ballyraven Cryptid Wildlife Protection Agency

BCwPA [BICK-puh]

 

is an organization that was created around Bally's collection of work. Its entries, tapes, videos, and drawings have been recreated for clarity in the English language; all is being uploaded to the internet in archive form, free to access by all. No one is sure what parts of this collection are real, which are made up, or why it was created in the first place. The BCwPA preserves all of the information and artwork, nonetheless. Ballyraven.com functions as a meeting place for cryptid enthusiasts and fans of the strange being, Bally; a mailbox, which searches for lost or new media relating to Bally or their writings/drawings and answers or expands on the understanding of  them/their ideas/experiences; and exists as a field guide and encyclopedia of rare and/or unknown life.

Anyone can become a BCwPA agent as long as they pledge to follow the organization's three tenets:

Be watchful, be curious, be scrawling. Take time to observe the world around you, ask questions, and try to find their answers; keep a personal field journal, take notes, and draw.

Be cryptid, be kind. Be respectful and considerate of the life around you. Reduce harm. Leave so little of an impact on the wild that you may as well be a cryptid to them.

Be a BCwPA agent. Educate others about life on our planet and how to protect it, appreciate it, and be curious about it.

BCwPA agents receive monthly updates on newly translated material. Some teams receive monthly recreations of BCwPA artwork.
 

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ABOUT BCwPA
BCWPA is an anagram of pwca (pronounced poo-kuh) with a B at the beginning for Ballyraven and for the first word of each tenet. Its members are BCWPA Agents.

 

WHO IS BALLYRAVEN?
Ballyraven is both an individual and species of fae. Ballyravens are human-like shapeshifters that have very bird-like heads and dinosaur-ish bodies.

THE Ballyraven, or "Bally", is the BCwPA's mascot, source of new materials, and leader. They have blue feathers and a two-spiked, black side-eye pattern on each outer eye. Fae do not give their true names even to their best of friends. Like Bally, they are happy to be called by their species, fae grouping, or a nickname.

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