A hawk-headed winged lion. Similar to a griffon, perhaps, but much more vile and evil in intent. Instinct: to eat the flesh of the warm-blooded

• Strike from above

Some might say that a normal-sized slug is gross enough, but to see one as large as a horse squeeze through a tiny opening in a cave wall and then spray all your friends with acid bile... Well, there's little scarier and more disgusting than that. Instinct: to eat

• Spray acid bile

The northern variant of the common bear. These large creatures are territorial and will defend their young with their lives. Instinct: To hunt

• Bear hug

Horned blue or red skinned monstrosities clad in tiger hides and exotic armours, and bearing huge spiked steel clubs, these creatures give off an air of brutish strength. While they may be easily as strong as their Ogre cousins, they are superior in every other way. Wielding unnatural magic abilities that enable to them to fly, turn invisible, shroud areas in magical darkness, shapeshift into disguises that would fool the most suspicious of men, and worse; they are to be reckoned with and feared. Instinct: to deceive and devour mortals

• Deceive
• Turn invisible
• Blast them with a cone of cold or shroud them in darkness

A white ooze that blends in with snow and dissolves flesh at an alarming rate. Striking it with melee causes it to divide into another monster of equal size. It can be harmed by fire or magic. Instinct: To consume

• Consume flesh
• Blend in with snow
• Divide into two from melee or lightning

The Polar Worm, they call it. A huge ferocious beast that can swallow livestock whole, burning it up with it's churning fiery insides, hot enough to melt weapons that strike it's skin. They hide under the snowy steppes of the north, and it's best you stay as far away from those forsaken places as you can. Instinct: To eat

• Melt weapons that strike it
• Burst from the ground

A big cat with spotted white-grey fur and a knack for sneaking about and leaping on unsuspecting interlopers. Instinct: To hunt

• Attack from surprise
• Blend in with snowy surroundings

Large vaguely ape-like men covered in white fur, these creatures descend from northern climes to wreak havoc and eat the flesh of men. Instinct: To eat flesh

• Rip and tear
• Induce paralyzing fear through eye-contact

Some have theorized that the giant ice toads may be the source of winter, for it radiates from their form. Everything near the toad freezes rapidly, and this is the real source of danger when these giant ice-blue monsters are encountered, for it will freeze a victim even through the toughest of armours. Instinct: to eat

• Radiate cold

The great white wolves of the north are sometime friends to Giants and hostile to the rest. Bad enough they're too-large in size, but that they breathe ice and speak the tongues of common folk and Giants is reason enough to avoid them at all costs. Instinct: To hunt

• Breathe a blast of frost
• Distract and flank using the pack