Al-Qabus. High Yawatim. Anzagar. Shay al-Qawm. Hulum. It has many names, for it tastes the dreams of mortal and noble-genie alike. Sustained for over a thousand years on the spirits of the few who could not escape the Sky-Palace, its true goal is simple: Become fully real, and escape with its Dream-Censer, to found its own court where dream and reality blur until they cannot be separated. But it needs power. The King and Queen it consumed simply gave it the ability to manifest on its own; it must merge with a being of sufficient power to truly live. And now it has a captive noble genie...and will do anything to secure its position, tell any lie, kill any opponent, despoil any place necessary to succeed. Anzagar may not be of genie blood, but it has a genie's ambition...and none of the restraint. Instinct: To absorb minds and power

• Weave dreams into deceptions and deceptions into dreams
• Stealing thought, memory, and dream to disguise itself
• Illusions and consumption are its magic
• Every strike can steal memories--or implant them
• It can see the true natures of things and glimpse past and future

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