It's a goddamn Barghest; they run the Goblin Empire, both as its temporal rulers and as their spiritual rulers. Highly respected by their goblin underlings, they appear to be normal (if a tad tall) goblins, who can shift into horrific hyena-beasts with bleeding eyes. Instinct: to rule their inferiors

• Consume flesh to learn secrets.
• Call guards
• Change forms.

Nobody seems to know where these things came from. Elves say they’re the dwarves’ fault—dredged up from a hidden place beneath the earth. Dwarves say they’re bad elvish children, taken away at birth and raised in the dark. The truth of the matter is that goblins have always been here and they’ll be here once all the civilized races have fallen and gone away. Goblins never die out. There’s just too damn many of them. Instinct: To multiply

• Charge!
• Call more goblins
• Retreat and return with (many) more