The Erindale liger is the intersection of imagination and improbable reality. In The New World, the second BridgeWorlds Book, Katarina, one of the heroines of the novel, is mauled and nearly killed by a huge tigerlike creature. The only Earth creature approaching Kat’s Bane in size and appearance is the liger. It is for this reason that the Erindale liger was created. The broad nose and baleful gaze of a lion, combined with the dramatic coloring of a tiger, provides a striking representation of the menace, majesty and power of the creatures which roam The New World.