The Ballyraven Cryptid Wildlife Protection Agency is an organization that was created by Ballyravens (shapeshifting fae creatures, a species of pwca). Avid naturalists, they studied their environments, sketched their surroundings, and noted anything irregular. Towards the end of their era, they developed an obsession with entities dubbed cryptids: creatures so rare that they were thought to maybe never have existed at all, be malicious hoaxes, or light-hearted lies. While some of these cryptids turned out to be real, many were not. The mischievous Ballyravens, however, pretended for a time that all were real, creating drawings, research notes, and field guides on unproven, unknown organisms. This was done not to make money, bully, or for any other nefarious reason, but to get fellow fae outside, get them asking questions, and interested in the world around them once more.

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As fae neared extinction, the Ballyravens passed BCwPA on to humans, hoping they would carry on their club, interests, and beliefs, but with more success. Learn from their mistakes, protect yourself and life around you, and above all else, care. Be a better BCwPA.

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Any human 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 add drawings so that you may connect your inner and external world.

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.

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BCwPA is symbolic. It is curious, fun, casual. It is not so much about cryptids as it is about you and those around you. It is about learning and experiencing and wondering. It is about skepticism and conservation and change. It is trying to figure out how to help each other and educate in a kind, accessible, and meaningful way.