Posessing the upper body of a human female on the lower half of a serpent, Lamia are feared by solitary travellers attempting to push through lush jungles or other tropical areas. Residing in caves for the most part, a Lamia will draw wanderers into their lairs with their enchanting songs, which can be heard from a great distance. Too late do victims notice the bloodstains on the wall of the creature's domicile - their captive immediatley enfolds them in its coils, crushes the life out of them and devours the body. Lamia also hoard anything their meal was carrying, magpie fashion - ventures into Lamia caves are profitable, if dangerous. Instinct: To devour passers-by and steal their valuables.

• Lures victims to their doom.
• Siren song that enchants victims.

Leader of the Forgotten Thieves. Clever. Manipulative Instinct: To Escape

• Joint Lock
• Eye Gouge

Instinct: To rule the ocean

• Drag victims to their doom
• Ambush the unsuspecting
• Hold a grudge

Шейх-философ тритонов известен далеко за пределами подводного города, где он правит. Утонченные поэты, мудрые ученые, доблестные и справедливые воины, чарущие танцоры и танцовщицы составляют его двор. Он избавляет проплывающие корабли от пошлины, если те везут новые знания или неведомое ему доселе искусство. Очень жаль, что золотой век так скоро закончится Приливом. Instinct: избегать конфликта

• Править мудро и справедливо
• Призвать водных духов
• Воспользоваться народной поддержкой

Wearing stolen armor and crude bodypaint, the orcish imposter wants the orcs to be blamed for something. It's loathe to kill humanoids, but will do whatever it takes to get its objectives; take hostages, set fires, or destroy valuable artifacts. Attempting to speak Orc to them will result in confusion. Instinct: To impersonate

• Smash and Grab
• *Destroy the environment
• Go to Fallen Comrade

The forgotten thieves are denizens of the first level of the dungeon of the same name. Starving and desperate, they'll brutally attack anything that enters their domain. Instinct: To survive

• Steal something
• Shiv (piercing 1)
• Prison riot

The baraazur are jungle-dwelling tribes of flightless avians who are fiercely territorial. They punish intruders by devising elaborate traps and mazes. They use long spears for combat and often envenom the tips with an hallucinogenic paste. Instinct: Punish intruders

• Gang up
• Fade into the jungle
• Hallucinogenic poison

Outside the colony, scouting (3-5) and hunting (5-10) bands pick their way through the forest or plains. They work in a seasonal pattern, clearing a swath of land of all other animals and then leaving it for the rest of the year to repopulate. Woe to the party of adventurers caught unaware when a wave of clicking mandibles and rock-hard chitin pours into their camp because these waist-height ants can shred cloth and leather and crush metal in their jaws. More than once, a soldier has fended off an attack but later lost a limb to rot because he could not extract himself from his crushed gauntlet or boot. Instinct: Scour the Forest

• Hunt. Kill. Repeat.
• Group Mind - nearby ants act as if one entity

Endlessly skittering through the tunnels of the behemoth ant colony, drones are the most numerous caste. They are not actively hostile but if it becomes clear that intruders are disturbing or endangering the colony they will team up to remove the intruders. Quite possibly in several mangled pieces. Instinct: Remove unwanted things from the hive

• All chitin and mandibles and OCD
• Panic Pheromones

The First Mage, Lukan, learned the secrets of arcane energy not from books -- for who would have written them? His desperation for power called forth trange and terrible messengers whose very presence tore and strained and frayed reality. Lukan gleaned that these incarnations of the Beyond had just one goal -- to unify the Starry Beyond's arcane maelstrom with our world. In a terrible fight, he sought to banish them, and teach men to learn how to harness the Starry Beyond by discipline alone. But these creatures of terrible, bright, starlight still remain to tempt, scourge, burn, and transform the unwary - and your old friend was, it seem, more than ready to be tempted. Instinct: To bring the Starry Beyond into this world.

• Scour with the sizzling energies of the Starry Beyond
• Shimmering multicolored tendrils of energy speed out from its hovering mass and...
• Guide or force others to unleash the Starry Beyond.
• Take a humanoid form
• Teach maddening secrets.
• Strain the fabric of reality.