Horrific creatures summoned and brought to life through magical means from the depths of the Netherworlds. These beasts may vary completely in appearance, ranging from arachnid forms with human skulls to mighty horned skeletons or slimy creatures consisting of brains only with magical abilities never dreamed of. This varity results from the fact that Netherbeasts were never supposed to live, for the Netherworlds are known as the realms of Queprur, the goddess of death, as a place of utter darkness, of eternal slumber and forgetting the living.

Image description: The nightmare of the strongest warrior: A magically summoned beast of the Netherworlds. Drawn by Mikael.

In these foul, rotting depths all those corpses can be found which were smitten by spells of destructive transportation, in the violent attempt of breaking the barriers between the planes, thus killing the victims immediately. But it is also said that all those corpses of creatures can be found in the Netherworlds which were the results of copulations between different species of beasts but have died early in the mother's womb as their existence was never meant to happen for this world. Alas, powerful wizards serving the cause of Coór have specialised in bringing the Netherbeasts back to reality and to resurrect them from the dead. In long prepared, complicated ceremonies where they call upon the help of Coór's dark minions, the Spirits of the Shadow, these sorcerers can open a temporary gate transfering the beasts from the lands of the dead to the plane they live in. Not all of the beasts being transfered in such a magical way can indeed fullfil the hope of the summoners and catch the breath of life, but those who can are much more than just re-animated beasts. Netherbeasts grow and age within seconds they enter their new reality and the only instinct they possess is to kill those who reaped them from their peaceful deadly slumber. It happend more than once that the summoner was killed immediately by the creature which was summoned.

A permanent portal into the Netherworlds and thus to the terrfic Netherbeasts is located at Oshtemangar, the famous orcish fortress, which lies in the Plain of Ehelvin at the gigantic peninsula of Caaehl'heroth. The so-called Deep Wind's Portal is only accessible at certain times but it was already in use during the War of the Chosen and later on in SW III. It's location and if it is already destroyed is still unknown.

One of the most well known uses for Netherbeasts in a decisive battle is the famous Battle at Hegedorn (60 b.S.), described in the myth of the Avaesthoría where the interracial alliance trying to prevent the darkelf Ssaban Blackcloak from descending into the Hèckranian Volcano was defeated by the elf's minions emerging from the Netherworlds.