Harsiess, before she was transformed into the Crocogre, attempted to make her own demi-god when she was betrayed by Kione and Wetuna. She sought the Rether's aid, but his hatred of women led him to taunt her and gift her only tainted secrets of Creation. The Peat Child is an unfinished, failed experiment into granting life to the inanimate. The creature is shorter and wider than a human, with indistinct limbs ending in blunt mounds rather than articulate hands. A lump atop it serves as an ugly simulacrum of a head, but its true eyes and many and hidden. The substance of the construct is a form of river clay mixed with a rare type of peat moss that can burn even underwater. It is an ugly, unloved, stinking thing, and none too intelligent. It seeks to please its builder in the hopes that she will finish it, not understanding that she lacks the power. Instinct: to harvest materials for completion

• Spontaneously combust in a wide gout of flame
• Hurl a ball of peat which sticks and burns on contact, even underwater