An ordinary choker is already bad enough--a nasty thing of cartilage and sinew and starfish-hands covered in needles. But the Burning Eye shapes its servants to its wicked will, and grants them greater power in exchange for devotion. These chokers can slip from shadow to shadow without passing through the light they abhor, and have some limited magical prowess in addition to their speed and durability. Their speed and agility is even further enhanced, to outright supernatural levels. Don't fight them without a plan...or at least without some expendable targets, since they only really care about their next meal if the Burning Eye has not cast its gaze upon them. Instinct: To eat flesh and spurn light

• Squeeze out the breath of life
• Shadow-walking to flank prey

The Body of the Song is the physical anchor of the Song of Thorns. It is not, properly speaking, a "body" at all, instead being the densest and oldest cluster of thorn-vines present in Zerzura--it may even be the original plant host for the Song. However, just because it is not a body proper does not mean it is unimportant; though powerful and well-defended, it is still a potential weakness, as it is in some sense the only "totem" of the Song. Few could approach the Body without being infected and subverted, becoming food and tools for the Song, but if anyone could do so, the Song will strive to destroy them with extreme prejudice. The Body lairs in what appears to be the very heart of the City proper, with enormous vines ten feet across rising from or buried into the ground, between the shattered remnants of arches and scattered cobblestones. Servants of the Song rarely go here, but anyone whose mind has been assaulted by the Song has seen this place in the mind-battles it fights. Instinct: Absorb powerful minds, crush opposition.

• Confuse and infect prey with illusions and deceptions
• Invoke the world-shaping magic of the Shi
• Call upon the denizens of Zerzura to aid it
• Separate the party into mindscapes/shards of spacetime