Instinct:

Instinct:

Springjack is really three gnomes in a cloak. They jump to and through with mechanical spring stilts and grab with long clockwork arms. They use fey trickery to sound and look scary as they try and scare all the scholars out in town. Instinct: Intimdate scholars in town

• Scares people alone
• Suddenly springs in and out
• Scary illusions

Short, colorful, and chaotic. They've been paid by their old rivals to the kobolds to make life tough for the scholars in town. Instinct: make scholars miserable

• use illusions to cause problems
• strike from illusion
• create believable illusions

Instinct: To spy and plot

• summon minions
• detach and hide eye stalk, watch through detached eye stalk
• fire magical ray from any eye stalk

It is not known whether the gray dwarves migrated to the Caves of Infinity or if their more civilized cousins fled their brutish cousins. Tyrannical, grim, industrious and pessimistic, the lives of the gray dwarves are bleak and brutal. Rather than a flaw, however, they view their lack of happiness as their greatest strength, the defining feature of their pride. The gray dwarves saw themselves as the true paragons of dwarvish ideals compared to their weak and pampered kin, but in truth, their ways were a dark reflection of those found in normal dwarves While they do display the redeeming virtues of determination and bravery, the grays take dwarven flaws to their logical extremes. They are violent and hateful, sullen and insular, greedy and ungrateful, deeply cynical of others' motives and dutifully track and nurse every grudge, whether or not any offense was meant. Though their vices were many, the moral failings of the gray dwarves could be traced to three primary principles: bottomless greed, unceasing conflict, and rejection of emotion. Instinct: to enslave and profit

• double in size; when not enlarged stats are halved
• Invisibility, for up to an hour unless it attacks, is hit, or enlarges

The Man of the Black Gates looks like a man, or at least it is called a man, and no one who has met with him has said otherwise, but no one can ever remember just what the Man looks like after they look away. The Man has aspired to power beyond his station and believes that the death of the Ancients is a means to an end for some reason. He cannot kill speakers outside his realm, and relies on contracts with resurrections to enforce his will in the material plane. Instinct: to bargain with life

• Lock one on the other side of the Gates
• Conjure images of loved ones' last moments and hide among them
• Master of Reality in his Realm
• It can kill non speakers at will
• Summon Contracts to fight for him.

A human sized albino rabbit with jagged fangs and tattered claws. It has no fur and its skin is pale and puckered. Its voice, when it speaks, sounds like its coming from the center of your skull and is calm and resonant. Instinct: To retake the surface

• Melt their psyche
• Vanish
• Make them relive childhood nightmares

The corrupted octopus lives in red ponds within the blight woods. It lays in wait below the surface for unsuspecting creatures to approach the water's edge. When given the opportunity it will grapple creatures with its many long and powerful tentacles. It drowns its victims before devouring them with its beak. Instinct: To drown and devour

• Drown creatures that come too close

Plenty of scoundrels aren't happy enough hunting or chopping wood. They leave Welcomewood in search of riches to change their lives. Instinct: to loot

• skulk around danger
• use a gadget from adventuring gear
• quietly signal to its group