Encyclopedia entry: The Pufflion is a small creature of which there are many species. Pufflions live in medium to large social groups, where they work together and feed on seeds, fruits, nuts and insects. These creatures' evolutionary lineage is not known, but they appear similar to tiny cats in many ways except with a large puffball growing from their foreheads. The puffball is almost entirely weightless. Pufflions use them to express their emotions to each other, and it is important socially. A curled-up puffball can mean fear or submission, a drooping one can mean sadness, a perked up one can mean happiness, and so on.

Gilded Lace Pufflions are an Indulainian native species that dwells mostly in the Purple Forest. Indulain's most powerful royal family holds dominion over most of this region and enforces protection of it vigilantly. Before this protection was begun, the Gilded Lace Pufflion was on the verge of extinction, partly because of the invasive species known as the Nashoki dodo, which is not a dodo at all, but an unrelated large flightless bird that competed with the pufflions for its preferred food sources of native fruits, nuts and seeds. The efforts of conservation by Indulainian people, especially the near total removal of invasive species, has helped the Gilded Lace Pufflion flourish once again.