Wordeaters are pallid humanoids with gruesome body modifications and tattoos. They do not have mouths on their faces, but rater "speak" from a voice box that is surgically opened and held open with long pins. They are able to steal words from others, causing their victims to forget how to speak except for the single word: "wordeater". Instinct: to increase its vocabulary

• steal someone's words
• use the words of others in perfect imitation
• produce disorienting sounds
• stun someone with a phrase

High ranking drow clerics of various great demons. Fanatic devotion has brought them great power, which they now use to enact the will of both their abyssal patron and their great underground nation. Instinct: To secure revenge for the drow empire

• Summon demons

Thin, angular, and flesh the color of bone. Ghost elves flit and dart like quiet shadows, smiling as their curved blades slash through chain and flesh alike. They make no permanent homes that anyone is aware of. Some think they lurk in hidden caverns, swamps, and high in the mountains. It is rumored that they worship some elder thing slumbering within a block of ice. No one knows what they want, or where they come from, but many believe that they are not elves at all, but something older, and far more terrifying. Instinct: To eviscerate

• Move like a whisper
• Divide and Conquer

Instinct: to Serve the Master

• Carry a rider into battle

lost and misunderstood - among humans, elves, halflings, and dwarves, - an otherworlder tries to find its way home. - pain. understanding. - the otherworld - so close yet so far - please understand. Good yet a monster, Don't kill it. Instinct: To enlighten people

• Drive others to madness unintentionally
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• Try to help people understand

"What happened to him? The prince, I mean?" "Oh, the other boy turned out to be a Dark Mist. It got inside the prince and possessed him. He started killing people and casting bad, bad spells on them so they would die, leaving perfect places for other Mists to grow. Once everyone in the village died-except me, I escaped-the Mist killed him, and corrupted his soul- thus creating a Dark Mist out of the prince." "Are they real?" "Very real indeed- but I'll keep you safe. "Thank you." Created by Zola Instinct: to corrupt

• Take a physical form
• Trick somebody into betraying their allies
• Creat enchanted darkness that takes over someone's mind
• Kill somebody that is in its control

A monster for a villiage. Basically for my adventure, The Count's Daughter. Instinct: to scare

• Scare little kids
• scare everybody!

The Devouring was actually once a human. He cast it off in an evil deal. Knowing that he could never do good again, he trapped himself in a castle for three day's time. Then he died, and was reborn as a lich. P.S. If you know his real name (up to a GM) he will obey all commands, like "die and never come back". P.P.S. If you destroy his phlacetry he will die. Instinct: To kill

• Destroy souls
• Feed souls to its phlacetry
• Command evil forces
• Lord in evil

Each individual shadow is actually a swarm of tiny, dust-sized demons. No one is quite sure where they come from, or how to kill them, but it is known that children of every species on every plane of existence know to fear the darkness . . . Instinct: To spread

• Devour flesh
• Impersonate voices
• Absorb knowledge from those it kills

Ah, the common folk. They always pursue some Goal and will do anything for it. (This is only for the people who go out of their way to make someone else mad.) Instinct: To follow its Goal

• Choose 1: pray to a god, become rich, fight for their country, steal something, shame an enemy. (This is a Goal. They will pursue the Goal until they get it.)
• Do one in pursuit of a Goal: Lie, cheat, spread a nasty rumor, fight.