A shadow that either attacks independently, or through an animated puppet or marionette. Its sole drive is to kill, swarming its opponents with overwhelming force. Instinct: To kill

• Swarm enemies
• Absorb life to heal the Puppeteer (special hard move, only on a failure)

Your shadow detaches from you, lightening from darkness into grays, then muted colors, until it takes a form indistinguishable from yours. In perfect mimicry of your voice, it speaks to your companions. Weakness: It cannot harm its own source character. Instinct: To destroy its source and take its life and identity.

• Mimic a living creature
• Transfer half of all damage it takes to its source character

A shadow-touched puppeteer with rictus-like grin and deep-set eyes, the Puppeteer summons minions of shadow to do its bidding, perhaps even imbuing its lifelike marionettes with the stolen life force of its victims. Instinct: To convert life into shadows

• Summons shadow puppets to do its bidding
• Each time it deals damage, it summons a Shadow Puppet with hit points equal to the damage it dealt.

It appears as someone innocent, usually a child. Beneath its clothes, one might see a deep hole in its chest, with black mist where the heart should be. This mist seeps out during its attack, enshrouding its victim. Instinct: To absorb life

• It steals life from others
• Enthralls its victims through its innocent-seeming eyes.
• Turns into black mist to escape (there is a way to trap it... what is it?)

Great crows of the Pine Barrens are called Fell Crows because in their lust for blood and eyeballs they do not always wait for the end of a skirmish before descending from the skies to feast on warriors. Instinct: To encircle battlefields.

• Swoop down for eyes

Barbarians of the Fernkeep rally under the flag of Ahma to loot and pillage the people living at the Pine Barrens. Instinct: To crush their enemies, to see them driven before them, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

• Overwhelm enemies with number.
• Signal the hordes

The largest of spiders of the Sylvan World is worshipped as a goddess. It dwells in the dark hearth of the woods, conspiring, spawning armies of smaller spiders and dreaming of cultists bring juicy sacrifices for it. Instinct: to feed and spawn offspring

• Jump to crush
• Lure prey into webs (both literally and figuratively)

Gliding about on rapidly spinning blades, Drones seek and hunt down targets, then crash into them with a wicked, piercing stun baton. This is an effective and dangerous attack, but destroys the drone. Instinct: Search and Destroy

• Stun Dive- the drone hovers above the target, then comes down full speed with a electric spear.
• Stun- If a target is hit with the kamikaze attack of a drone and survives the spear, they still suffer from the electric discharge. roll, on a 6 they're paralyzed, 7-9 they're partially stunned and severely slowed, and resist the effects on 10+.

The whirling sentinels that comprise the majority of Bartholomew's forces, these lumbering machine men are designed to take a beating and keep ticking. Their limbs are made of lumber, and their extremities are made of heavy iron. A rumbling can be felt as they march, and they hum with a constant magical energy. Instinct: protect Bartholomew

• Bash- a wild swing with a heavy iron fist.

Bartholomew the Tyrant is a master of war, machine, and magic. Once a member of the Gevaun elite, he has been exiled by the upstart Cemartie and has established a hidden base in the Evergreen vale. His magical prowess is focused on powering machines and enhancing production, though he does favor explosions in a pinch. Instinct: To see His enemies driven before him under the might of Steel and Magic.

• Rocket Spear- Bart's spear can hone in and fly at a target using the built in magi-rockets.
• Mortar- Lobs a volatile orb of raw magical energy, igniting and knocking back all in the blast.
• Overdrive- target automaton is healed for half of health and gets a +1 forward ongoing.
• BOOM- When Bart dies, his thick steam powered armor explodes as a final vengeful strike.