“Can’t all be the High Priest, they said. Can’t all wield the White Spire, they said. Scrub the floor, they told me. The Cthonic Overgod don’t want a messy floor, do he? They said it’d be enlightenment and magic. Feh. It’s bruised knees and dishpan hands. If only I’d been a cleric, instead.” Instinct: To serve dutifully

• Follow dogma
• Offer eternal reward for mortal deeds

Endlessly skittering through the tunnels of the behemoth ant colony, drones are the most numerous caste. They are not actively hostile but if it becomes clear that intruders are disturbing or endangering the colony they will team up to remove the intruders. Quite possibly in several mangled pieces. Instinct: Remove unwanted things from the hive

• All chitin and mandibles and OCD
• Panic Pheromones

The First Mage, Lukan, learned the secrets of arcane energy not from books -- for who would have written them? His desperation for power called forth trange and terrible messengers whose very presence tore and strained and frayed reality. Lukan gleaned that these incarnations of the Beyond had just one goal -- to unify the Starry Beyond's arcane maelstrom with our world. In a terrible fight, he sought to banish them, and teach men to learn how to harness the Starry Beyond by discipline alone. But these creatures of terrible, bright, starlight still remain to tempt, scourge, burn, and transform the unwary - and your old friend was, it seem, more than ready to be tempted. Instinct: To bring the Starry Beyond into this world.

• Scour with the sizzling energies of the Starry Beyond
• Shimmering multicolored tendrils of energy speed out from its hovering mass and...
• Guide or force others to unleash the Starry Beyond.
• Take a humanoid form
• Teach maddening secrets.
• Strain the fabric of reality.

Wearing stolen armor and crude bodypaint, the orcish imposter wants the orcs to be blamed for something. It's loathe to kill humanoids, but will do whatever it takes to get its objectives; take hostages, set fires, or destroy valuable artifacts. Attempting to speak Orc to them will result in confusion. Instinct: To impersonate

• Smash and Grab
• *Destroy the environment
• Go to Fallen Comrade