Editing Tome of Beasts (section)

=Creature Codex=
'''Aatxe:''' A shapeshifting Celestial in the form of a great red bull that serves as a guardian for pious communities.

'''Acid Ant:''' A breed of giant ants with acidic bites and abdomens full of corrosive goo that burst on death.

'''Agnibarra:''' An elemental monster that resembles a goblin set on fire, but never burning to death. Pyromaniacs that view any flammable lifeform as nuisances that need to be purified with fire.

'''Ahuizotl:''' A man-eating otter-like river monster with a prehensile tail topped with a human-like hand.

'''Ahu-Nixta:''' Squamous, vulnerable little squid-like aberrations that inhabit large clockwork exoskeletons, which bolsters them in their crusades for the glory of the dark gods.

'''Alkonost:''' Strange elf-faced magical birds that only appear prior to the arrival of powerful electrical storms, tornadoes, and mighty winds.

'''Alliumite:''' A race of humanoid plants created by sprinkling sweet onions with pixie dust. Wild herb gardeners, they defend their gardens with ferocity far greater than their size.

'''Alp:''' An obnoxious fey resembling an ugly [[dwarf]] with a white cap, alps are incorrigible mischief makers who love to torment the sleeping and harass farmers.

'''Ammut:''' A celestial beast that resembles a chimera; the head of a crocodile, the forequarters of a lion and the hindquarters of a hippo. They are dedicated enemies of the undead and seek them out to devour wherever they can be found.

'''Angel:'''
* ''Eye of the Gods:''' A fiery winged eye the size of a human infant that acts as an observer for its creator-deity.
* ''Kinnara:'' A beautiful harpy-like angel created from the soul of a virtuous lover and sworn to the service of gods of love, music and wisdom.
* ''Ophanim:'' Resembling flaming transverse nested wheels with outer rims covered in eyes, these angels signify divine justice and the direct attention of the deity whom they serve.
* ''Sammael:'' Resembling winged humanoids clad in robes of black, swirling mist, these are the angels charged to enact execution, destruction and punishment at the will of the gods.
* ''Song:'' Music-loving, golden-skinned angels that seek to lead mortals into performing acts of kindness and charity.
* ''Zoryas:'' Bringers and enders of light, Zoryas also escort avatars of the deities to and from the material plane.

'''Animal Lords:''' Powerful fey spirits that act as the patron deities for the animals of the world.
* ''Bat King''
* ''Brother Ox''
* ''Lord of Vultures''
* ''Mouse King''
* ''Queen of Birds''
* ''Queen of Cats''
* ''Queen of Serpents''

'''Ankou:''' The spirit of the first dragon to die of each century, compelled to serve the gods of death by ushering the souls of the dead to their final resting places.

'''Anophiloi:''' A race of semi-sentient giant mosquitoes.

'''Arborcyte:''' A monstrous plant resembling a tangle of acid-oozing vines and bones, spawned from the corrupted soul of a druid slain in the failed defense of their woodland home.

'''Arcamag:''' A crystalline tick that feeds on the magical energies within living hosts.

'''Arcanaphage:''' A magic-eating monster that resembles a giant, rainbow-colored flying sea slug.

'''Astral Snapper:''' A vile humanoid-looking aberration that kills victims by phasing into the Astral Plane and using small portals to reach into and devour the entrails of unwitting mortals.

'''Azeban:''' Mischievous fey tricksters that resemble humanoid raccoons.

'''Azi Dahaka:''' A unique three-headed serpentine dragon believed to be the child of a storm demon.

'''[[Baba Yaga]]:''' The one, the only, the Mother of Witches and the Queen of Hags.

'''Bar Brawl:''' Basic stats for running a bar brawl.

'''Barong:''' A white-and-crimson panther-like celestial based on the Indonesian deity of the same name.

'''Bats:'''
* ''Giant Albino'' 
* ''Giant Vampire'' 

'''[[Bearfolk]] Chieftain:''' A beefed up version of a bearfolk to represent a tribal chief.

'''Bearmit Crab:''' A magical fusion of a bear and a hermit crab that builds a fake shell out of rocks glued together with sticky secretions, meaning slashing/stabbing weapons have a chance to get stuck.

'''Bilwis:''' A malicious wind elemental that is typically summoned to ruin the fields and crops of farmers.

'''Bloody Bones:''' A horrific monstrosity that looks like a saucer-eyed, partially skeletal ghoul whose pate drips with blood that can rejuvenate its wounds.

'''Bookkeeper:''' Animated ink blots created to serve as magical tome guardians.

'''Boot Grabber:''' A slime-like aberration that pretends to be a puddle of yuck on the ground, then forms itself into a gluey hand and grabs its foe by the foot, seeking to crush their limbs and make them bleed to death.

'''[[Carbuncle]]:''' An obnoxious trickster of a magical beast, appearing as an ocelot with the plumage of a tropical songbird and a glimmering garnet growing in the center of its forehead.

'''Cats of Ulthar:''' A murderous swarm of magical cats, taken from the [[Dreamlands]].

'''Cauldronborn:''' A strange golem made up of earth and stone animated by corrupted potions seeping into the soil. It feeds on potions to sustain its own life, and tracks them fanatically.

'''[[Centaur]] Chieftain:''' A beefier version of the standard centaur to represent a tribal leader.

'''Child of Yggdrasil:''' A monstrous, carnivorous tree-like aberration unwittingly created from a dragon's eggs that were smeared with [[Yggdrasil]] sap and left in a hollow in the World Tree by a [[ratatosk]].

'''Chuhaister:''' A malicious forest-dwelling giant with bark-like skin and a particular hatred for the fey. They often keep smaller fey imprisoned in a cage-like formation of branches that grow atop their skulls.

'''Chupacabra:''' The iconic goat-sucker cryptid.

'''Clockwork:'''
* ''Assassin''
* ''Servant''
* ''Soldier''

'''Corpse Thief:''' A cursed race of ghoulish humanoids who cannot naturally feel strong emotions, and so they steal objects from corpses to read the imprinted memories and vicariously experience them. Unfortunately, they have such a weak sense of personal identity that this can lead to them believing they ''are'' the person whose grave-goods they're wearing.

'''Crimson Mist:''' A revived classic D&D monster, a blood-sucking mist created by slaying a vampire with sunlight as it's in the midst of feeding upon a living victim.

'''Cueyatl:''' A race of cruel tribal tree-frog-folk who often practice piracy and human sacrifice, ruled over by tyrannical priest-kings. Basically evil Aztec [[grippli]].

'''Dakini, Simhamukha:''' A Celestial giant appearing as a towering [[Amazon]] with blue-black skin and the head of a three-eyed white lion with a long, golden mane. They strive to punish those who have harmed beings under the protection of the dakini.

'''Dark Father:''' A classic Grim Reaper wraith-looking undead that embodies the finality of death and comes for those soon to die.

'''[[Dark One|Dark Folk]]:''' A human subrace descended from [[wizard]]s that swore allegiance to shadow gods and passed the resultant [[Shadow Magic]] onto their descendants.
* ''Dark Eye:'' One-eyed Dark Folk whose missing eye drains the soul from those who meet its void-gaze.
* ''Dark Servant:'' The lowliest of the Dark Folk.
* ''Dark Voice:'' An eyeless prophet that acts as the leader of the Dark Folk.

'''[[Demon Prince]]s:'''
* ''[[Chemosh]], Lord of Conquest''
* ''[[Chittr'k'k]], Lord of Rats''
* ''[[Rangda]], the Wretched Lover, the Rot Within, Queen of Witches''
* ''[[Typhon]], Father of Monsters, Master of the [[Lamia]]s''

'''[[Demon]]s:'''
* ''Alnaar:'' Giant snakes made of magma that emerge to hasten the suffering of others.
* ''Cipactli:'' A many-mawed hermaphroditic humanoid alligator that lives to feed and breed.
* ''Echo:'' A wingless humanoid bat created from the souls of truly despicable liars.
* ''Fulad-Zereh:'' A towering demonic humanoid that acts as a lieutenant in Abyssal armies.
* ''Neophron:'' Shapechanging, eternally hungry demons that can assume the form of a giant vulture or a half-vulture half-ghoul.
* ''Pishacha:'' An oni-like demon created from the souls of the greedy and lustful, haunts graveyards and often cohabits with ghouls.
* ''Plaresh:'' A writhing knot of green ichor-drooling carnivorous demon worms.
* ''Rattok:'' Demonic [[ratfolk]] that distill abhorrent liquors from captured souls.
* ''Spree:'' A homicidal [[gnome]] revived as an even crazier and more murderous demon.
* ''Vellso:'' Demonic trackers.
* ''Wind:'' Winged, decaying-looking demons that serve powers of cold and decay.
* ''Yek:'' Demonic cannibals and pack hunters that act as mercenaries.

'''[[Derro]]:'''
* ''Speaker to Darkness:'' A priest of [[Camazotz]].
* ''Witch Queen:'' A focus for the insanity of an entire derro clan.

'''Devil Shark:''' A giant, fiendish looking shark with the mind and ego of a cunning warlord.

'''[[Arch-Devil]]s:'''
* ''[[Belphegor]], Hell's Inventor''
* ''[[Parzelon]], King of Secrets''

'''[[Devil]]s:'''
* ''Fire Imp:'' Flame-winged pyromaniac imps.
* ''Infernal Knight:'' A devilish knight that serves as a trusted advisor and servant to a powerful pit fiend or arch-devil.
* ''Wind's Harp:'' A living harp that acts as a diabolic musical instrument and torturer.

'''[[Dhampir]]s:''' Hybrid children of mortals and vampires.

'''[[Dinosaur]]s:'''
* ''Archaeopteryx:'' A proto-bird.
* ''Lystrosaurus:'' A hog-sized burrowing ceratopsian, often tamed by kobolds.
* ''Nodosaurus:'' A member of the anklyosaur family.

'''[[Dracotaur]]:''' Humanoid dragons from the waist up, wingless dragons from the waist down. Believed to have been created artificially by drowning centaurs in dragon's blood.

'''[[Dragon]]s:'''
* ''Clockwork:'' A clockwork imitation of a dragon built as a [[clockpunk]] siege weapon.
* ''Light:'' Star-traveling lovers of light and beauty.
* ''Wasteland:'' Territorial dragons that inhabit magic-blasted wastelands.

'''[[Dragonborn]]:'''
* ''Edjet:'' Elite dragonborn troopers.
* ''Elementalist:'' Specialist dragonborn mages that act as living artillery.
* ''Heavy Cavalry''
* ''Light Cavalry''
* ''Ouroban:'' Fanatical warriors belonging to doomsday cults.

'''[[Drake]]s:'''
* ''Bathhouse:'' Steam-breathing, soapy-slick drakes that create and run bathhouses as a combination of lair and hoard.
* ''Fey:'' A drake transformed into a [[Faerie Dragon]]-like creature by a demigod's blessing.
* ''Forest:'' Wingless firebreathing lizard that uses its breath weapon to provide healthy regular burns for their forests.
* ''Moon:'' A timid yet loyal drake that can transform into a living moonbeam. Its spittle is a cure for lycanthrope.
* ''Pact:'' A highly intelligent drake able to level powerful curses on oathbreakers.
* ''Peluda:'' A massive drake that resembles a wingless, shaggy, steam-breathing lizard bristling with porcupine-like spikes.
* ''Skull:'' A carrion-scavenging drake with prominent exoskeletal armor, often taken as a pet by necromancers.
* ''Spider:'' A nightmarish blending of lesser dragon and giant spider.

'''Dream Squire:''' A mortal condemned into service to the [[Shadow Fey]].

'''Dream Wraith:''' A variant [[wraith]] spawned from somebody killed in the throes of a powerful dream. It hunts other dreamers, hoping to finish its dream and then find peace in oblivion.

'''[[Dust Goblin]] Chieftain:''' A more powerful version of the standard goblin.

'''Dvarapala:''' A god-serving giant based on the Indonesian spirit of the same name.

'''[[Elemental]]s:'''
* ''Blood'': An Abyssal relative of the water elemental.
* ''Storm Lord:'' Powerful elementals of water, wind and lightning from the Plane of Water.
* ''Venom:'' A lesser elemental resembling a giant snake comprised of liquid poison.

'''[[Elf]]s:'''
* ''Alchemist Archer:'' Uses arrows empowered with alchemical mixtures.
* ''Deathsworn:'' Elite servants of an elven war god.
*  ''[[Enchanter]]''
* ''Servant of the Vine:'' An elven [[cleric]] of the god of wine and artistry.
* ''[[Shadow Fey]] Ambassador:'' An emissary from the shadow fey to mortals.
* ''[[Shadow Fey]] Knight of the Road:'' A Shadow Fey knight turned to banditry.
* ''[[Shadow Fey]] Pattern Dancer:'' Elite dancer-assassins that serve the Queen of Night and Magic.
* ''[[Shadow Fey]] Poisoner''

'''Elophar:''' An [[Oni|Ogre Mage]] that bungled a ritual to commune with its ancestral spirits and has now become an undead husk controlled by a squabbling crowd of spirits.

'''Exploding Toad:''' A toad transformed into a living bomb by [[Dust Goblin]] magic.

'''Far Wanderer:''' Servitors of the aberrant-god Yorama the Living Star, which resemble elves with constellation-like glowing markings on their skin.

'''Fear Liath:''' Curse-spawned undead shadows who can only pass on to the afterlife by passing their curse on to a living mortal.

'''[[Archfey|Fey Lords & Ladies]]:'''
* ''Berchta, the Endless Spindle''
* ''Reynard, the Fox Lord''

'''Fierstjerren:''' Undead warriors created by Nordic death cults.

'''Flame Eater Swarm:''' A swarm of bizarre fire-eating mutant bats, a failed weapon bred by [[Camazotz]] cultists.

'''Flame-Scourged Scion:''' Scorched, burned aberrations, the remnants of a largely extinguished dark cult whose unholy groves were put to the torch.

'''Flesh Reaver:''' A repulsive undead construct created to serve as a hunter and tracker.

'''Fleshpod Hornet:''' A giant parasitic hornet whose sting injects rapidly-maturing larvae into its victims.

'''[[Flying Polyp]]:''' The iconic Cthulhu Mythos monster.

'''Foxin:''' Brilliantly colored fey foxes that can exude an aura that quells pain, fear and discomfort.

'''Fragrite:''' An elemental of living lightning-glass.

'''Fulminar:''' A lightning elemental that takes the form of a lightning-wreathed jaguar whose lower body trails off into a whirling storm cloud.

'''Fungi, Wirbeln:''' A humanoid spiral-shaped bipedal fungus characterized by its willingness to form alliances with other creatures and its intense loyalty.

'''Gargoctopus:''' A giant, hyper-intelligent octopus that studies lost civilizations.

'''[[Ghast]] of Leng:''' An adaptation of one of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s monsters.

'''Ghost Boar:''' Magically mutated albino giant boars that can become briefly incorporeal.

'''Ghost Dragon:''' Literally just the ghost of a dragon.

'''Ghost Dwarf:''' The ghost of a dwarf forcibly trapped by a powerful [[necromancer]] or other undead and forced to inhabit an armored shell to be deployed against the living.

'''Ghouls, Darakhul:'''
* ''High Priestess''
* ''Shadowmancer''

'''Ghouls:'''
* ''Necrophage Ghast:'' A ghast [[necromancer]] who practices a variant of the art that rewards its acts of cannibalism with arcane power.
* ''Tar Ghoul:'' Tar-seeping ghouls that revel in being set alight, as they cannot actually be burned themselves.

'''Ghoulsteed:''' The corpse of a humanoid killed with necrotic energy, warped into a bestial yet hideously still humanoid shape often used as a steed by the Darakhul.

'''Giant Moths:'''
* ''Standard''
* ''Rimewing''
* ''Shockwing''
* ''Sootwing''

'''Giants:'''
* ''Blood Giant:'' Giants damned by oaths to a long-forgotten god, trapped in a state between life and death, looking like skeletons clad in an everflowing cloak of gore that freezes and liquifies at their mental command.
* ''Cacus Giant:'' Malevolent, fire-proof giants bred by a lesser fire god and then released from his service.
* ''Cave Giant:'' Degenerate and superstitious cavern-dwellers who revere cannibalism to the point that animal flesh is seen as spiritually unclean.
* ''Haunted Giant:'' A male hill or stone giant constantly harassed by the restless spirits of his ancestors.
* ''Laestrigonian Giant:'' A castaway who turned to cannibalism to survive, only to be warped into an insane flesh-eating giant by a divine curse.
* ''[[Mountain Giant]]:'' Enormous, stone-fleshed giants.
* ''Void Giant:'' Cloud giants kidnapped as children by void dragons and warped into suitable servitors.

'''Gloomflower:''' Tiny, mind-attacking killer plants from the Shadow Realm.

'''[[Gnoll]] Slaver'''

'''[[Goblin]], Chaos Spawn:''' A goblin mentally warped by exposure to the mind-shattering aura of a Great Old One.

'''[[Goblin]], Shadow:''' Dusky-skinned goblins native to the Shadow Realm, where they serve as menial servants to the [[Shadow Fey]].

'''[[Golem]]s:'''
* ''Alchemical''
* ''Altar Flame''
* ''Armory''
* ''Bone''
* ''Bronze''
* ''Doom''
* ''Fractal''
* ''Keg''
* ''Lesser'' - Glass, Hair, Mud, Wood
* ''Lotus''
* ''Manastorm''
* ''Paper''
* ''War Machine''

'''Goliath Longlegs:''' A giant spider with legs as long as tree trunks, allowing it to ambush prey from its perch high above.

'''Goreling:''' Severed limbs, discarded organs and other bodily scraps animated by necromancers as self-perpetuating minions.

'''Grave Behemoth:''' A horrifying undead construct, consisting of a flayed [[Hill Giant]] skin stuffed full of corpses, with both the bulging skin and its corpse cargo animated.

'''Green Knight of the Woods:''' A [[fey]] knight and champion.

'''Grindylow:''' Wicked aquatic aberrations that look like a parody of [[merfolk]]; a [[goblin]] upper torso and an eel's lower body.

'''Gugalanna:''' A celestial in the form of a massive bull with wings and a sun disk hanging between his horns, sent by the gods to punish the truly evil.

'''Gulon:''' A bizarre hybrid of giant fox and mountain lion, so voraciously gluttonous that it squeezes between trees to force the digested dung from its body faster so it can resume gorging.

'''Gumienniki:''' Crimson-skinned goblin-like fiends that offer to protect silos and storehouses in exchange for a steady supply of sacrifices. They wield flaming scythes and can transform into the shape of cats to disguise themselves.

'''[[Hag]], Snow:''' Ice Maidens who have lost seven thralls by having them be kissed by someone who truly loves them transform into these ugly icy hags.

'''Herald:''' Divine servitors.
* ''Herald of Fire:'' Humanoid dragons that are the living embodiment of fiery justice and burnt sacrifices to the draconic gods.
* ''Herald of the Great Wyrm:'' Servitor of the god of all dragonkind, a sign that the eye of dragonkind is upon a particular place or person.
* ''Herald of Undeath:'' An agent of the gods of undeath that seeks to spread the plague of unlife as far as possible.

'''Horned Serpent:''' A giant snake with bull-like horns and a magical jewel in its forehead. They exude a lethal miasma of poison and disease.

'''[[Hound of Tindalos]]:''' An iconic [[Lovecraft]]ian monster.

'''Hungry Ghost:'''
* ''Gaki:'' Restless spirits of avaricious humans, cursed to live an afterlife of eternal hunger, usually for carrion or other noxious filth.
* ''Preta:'' A relative of the gaki that hungers for blood, made more dangerous by its powers of invisibility and illusion.

'''Ichneumon:''' An unusually intelligent weasel the size of a brown bear that relishes the taste of dragon eggs above all other foods.

'''Ijiraq:''' A shapeshifting fey that can change from a human with a vertical mouth and demonic eyes to a [[minotaur]]-like humanoid caribou with wickedly spiked horns. Whilst they love to hunt humans for sport, they consider it poor form to attack those who come to speak with them, and will treat them respectfully during a moot.

'''Incinis:''' A malevolent humanoid elemental of magma.

'''Inkling:''' A puddle of ink accidentally enkindled with life by magic, now feeding on the ink of spellbooks and grimoires to literally absorb the knowledge into itself.

'''Iron Sphere:''' A guardian construct in the shape of an iron sphere that can deploy hidden weapons.

'''Jaanavar Jal:''' A giant predatory river-dwelling worm that uses an oily discharge as a makeshift breath weapon, igniting it with specialized teeth.

'''[[Jiangshi]]:''' The legendary Chinese Vampire.

'''Jinmenju:''' A horrifying looking intelligent plant that grows fruit that resemble human heads. Despite its fearsome mien, all it wants is to make other people laugh and feel happy, but its efforts to do so often have tragic results.

'''Kallikantzaros:''' A cursed race of goblin-like fey that seek to cut down [[Yggdrasil]], an impossible task.

'''[[Kappa]]:''' The iconic Japanese turtle monster.

'''Karakura:''' Vampiric fiends of haze and shadow that prefer to use wit and charm to draw prey in rather than chase it down.

'''[[Kitsune]]:''' The iconic Japanese fox monster.

'''[[Kobold]]:'''
* ''Elite''
* ''Junk Shaman''
* ''King''
* ''Swolbold''
* ''Wizard''

'''[[Korred|Korrigan]]:''' A mischievous, party-loving [[fey]] that resembles a [[gnome]] or [[leprechaun]], which is beautiful at night but becomes ugly during the light of day.

'''Kryt:''' Malevolent humanoid turtles with a reputation as skilled [[diviner]]s.

'''Kulmking:''' A horrific undead resembling a distorted, elongated hairless carnivorous horse with too many pairs of legs and human arms. Created by fey from people who go out of their way to harm wildlands, they loathe their creators and whilst condemned to protect the lands they once corrupted, they slaughter any fey they can get their hands on.

'''Kuunganisha:''' A unique species of small fiend specially bred to serve as a familiar.

'''Lady in White:''' The ghost of a woman who met a terrible, tragic end.

'''[[Lamassu]]:''' A bestial celestial that resembles a [[sphinx]], having a human head on the body of a winged lion.

'''[[Lamia]], Serpentine:''' An offshoot branch of the lamia race with the lower bodies of giant serpents. They loathe their lion-bodied kin, seeing them as imitations 

'''Leonino:''' An owl-winged flying cat beloved as a pet by elves.

'''[[Lich]]es:'''
* ''Hierophant:'' A clerical lich.
* ''Pact:'' A warlock lich.

'''Living Shade:''' A human's shadow animated by magic into a mischievous but not malicious fey.

'''Living Star:''' Giant celestials of flame that are kindled to life from motes of the sun.

'''Lou Carcolh:''' A bizarre hybrid of dragon and snail that uses six tentacle-like prehensile tongues to grab foes and drag them into its serpentine maw.

'''[[Therianthrope|Lycanthrope]]:'''
* ''[[Werebat]]''
* ''[[Werehyena]]''

'''Mandrake:''' A killer plant that resembles a grotesque hybrid of root and human baby, whose shrieks can kill.

'''Mandriano:''' A perversion of treants grown from soil defiled by ritual sacrifice, created to shepherd the undead.

'''Mantik:''' A legendary figure from [[Midgard]], the ruler of all [[manticore]]s.

'''Master of Demon Mountain:''' A legendary figure from [[Midgard]], a corrupted archmage of massive power and the father of an enormous extended family of [[tiefling]]s.

'''Megapede:''' A giant metal-eating millipede.

'''[[Minotaur]]s:'''
* ''Labyrinth Keeper''
* ''Moon Priestess''
* ''Lost:'' The undead form of a minotaur that died whilst trapped in a labyrinth of any kind.

'''Moon Nymph:''' An aberration connected to the moon that disguises itself in appealing forms to invade dreams and feed on its victims minds.

'''Morko:''' An obnoxious and fireproof fey trickster that loves to nest in chimneys. It has the ability to inflict a curse that makes its victim instinctively hated by others, and they love to use this on a victim before their attending a festival or party.

'''Mytholabe:''' A clock construct crafted by the gods to safeguard the personal effects of their fallen champions which can only be harmed by unenchanted weapons.

'''Nachzehrer:''' A repulsive plague-carrying undead that rises from the first victim of a plague that manages to kill a large number of people.

'''[[Naga]], Moonchild:''' A lazy and self-absorbed naga species that founds cults dedicated to it with false promises, manipulating others so as to ensure its own life of ease.

'''Nalusa Falaya:''' A horrible aberration resembling a warped, humanoid wolf, typically found guarding portals leading to or from planes of shadow, death and darkness. They have a particular taste for humanoid children. Based on a Choctaw legend, with perhaps a dash of Gmork from The Neverending Story.

'''Necrotic Tick:''' A tick mutated by feeding on the blood of a zombie or other undead creature.

'''Nian:''' A strange half-lion, half-bull monster that hunts during the shifting of seasons. Based on the Chinese mythical monster of the same name.

'''[[Nightgaunt]]:''' A [[H.P. Lovecraft]] monster.

'''Ningyo:''' A magical fish with an eerily humanoid face. Whilst eating its raw flesh reputedly grants immortality, it is feared as a harbinger of destruction and ill fortune. Taken from Japanese mythology.

'''[[Ogre]], Tusked Crimson:''' A magically produced subspecies of ogre characterized by its crimson skin, pronounced tusks, bloodlust and fearlessness.

'''Oliphaunt:''' A giant, four-tusked version of the mammoth.

'''[[Slime|Ooze]]:'''
* ''Alchemical Apprentice:'' A slime born spontaneously from alchemical waste, with surprising intelligence and a friendly disposition.
* ''Blood:'' A sanguine slime congealed from the gore leftover by sacrifices to dark gods.
* ''Foxfire:'' A glowing, levitating, electricity-filled ooze.
* ''Giant Shark Bowl:'' Half ooze and half construct; a bubble-like mass of living water symbiotically coexisting with a hungry shark living within its body, with treasure set within to lure victims close.
* ''Ink Guardian:'' Half-construct and half ooze, ink transmuted into a voracious predator that can disguise itself as just a regular ink bottle until disturbed.
* ''Ruby:'' A brilliant red corrosive slime that can harden into a semi-solid mineral form easily mistaken for a mass of rubies.
* ''Shadow:'' Planar energy from the Plane of Shadow congealed into an ooze-like entity after spilling into another plane.
* ''Suppurating:'' The liquified flesh and pus of victims of a disease called the Seeping Death, spontaneously animated as a horrifying slime.

'''[[Orc]], Black Sun:''' Albino orcs from the underdark which shun the light of day. The ''Black Sun Priestess'' is a religious leader amongst their kind.

'''Orc, Green Abyss:''' An orc subspecies evolved to inhabit deep jungles and shadowy canyons, specially adapted for hunting and living in the canopy.

'''Orthrus:''' A magical beast in the form of a two-headed guard dog with a giant snake for a tail.

'''Ouroboros:''' A half-black, half-white serpent-shaped dragon that is a symbol of both the preservation of life and the destruction of all things.

'''[[Pech]]:''' A creepy-looking but inoffensive [[gnome]]-like [[elemental]] of Earth.

'''[[Phantom]]:''' The restless, angry spirit of somebody who met a violent end.

'''Philosopher's Ghost:''' The result of alchemy gone hideously wrong, a Philosopher's Ghost is half ooze and half fire elemental, a living mass of ever-burning green flame.

'''Piasa:''' A lesser dragon characterized by its stag-like antlers, incredibly long spiked tail, and the great beard of golden filaments sprouting from its tiger-like muzzle. They exude gouts of sleeping gas and are unusually vulnerable to poison.

'''Pillar of the Lost Magocracy:''' An ancient defensive construct left behind by a long-vanished empire of wizards, taking the form of an ornate stone column with a mad wizard's spirit bound to it.

'''Pixiu:''' Dragon-jawed winged lions that feed upon gold and silver. Females are notoriously bolder, more aggressive, more cunning and more ambitious than the males.

'''Planar Flora:''' Plants growing in areas inundated with planar energy from the [[Upper Planes]] or [[Lower Planes]].
* ''Alabaster Tree:'' Angel-touched oaks, pines or willows that protect their native grove and all the creatures inside of them.
* ''Devil Bough:'' A fiend-touched tree that ensnares and devours any living creature it can, including other Devil Boughs.
* ''Ecstatic Bloom:'' An enormous angel-touched white flower that exudes a curative dew. Only grows in a grove that contains at least 2 alabaster trees and 3 hallowed reeds.
* ''Execrable Shrub:'' A fiend-touched thornbush that feeds on blood and meat.
* ''Hallowed Reed:'' Sapient angel-touched reeds that slowly transform nonmagical grasses around them into more clusters of hallowed reeds.
* ''Thorned Sulfurlord:'' A mass of fiend-touched vegetation assembled into an ever-burning parody of a giant humanoid form made of tangled black thorn vines, topped with a wooden mask.

'''Purple Slime:''' A water-dwelling slime that attacks by forming spike-like pseudopods to stab foes and inject necrotizing ichors.

'''Quickstep:''' A fey messenger and courier that resembles a halfling-sized elf that moves at blistering speed.

'''Quiet Soul:''' The vengeful spectral undead created of one abandoned and left to die of starvation, thirst or exposure to the elements. They seek only to kill any living souls that stumble across their resting place.

'''Rageipede:''' A 3ft long centipede that injects a mind-altering venom into creatures, filling them with homicidal berserker fury, and then waits to claim the carrion left behind by their killing spree.

'''[[Rakshasa]], Greater:''' A more powerful version of the common rakshasa.

'''[[Ramag]] Portal Master:''' A ramag [[dimensionalist]].

'''[[Ratatosk]] Warlord:''' A more powerful and warlike subrace of the ratatosk.

'''[[Ratfolk]]:'''
* ''Mercenary''
* ''Warlock''

'''Razlorleaf:''' A killer plant that grows in areas where the boundary between the material and the Shadow Realm has grown thin. Resembles a more mature-looking mandragora with plum-colored, razor-sharp leaves and the ability to magically darken its surroundings.

'''Ring Servant:''' A unique kind of [[golem]] made by Ringmages. Takes the form of a humanoid mass of energy given shape by scattered fragments of metal and maintained by two rune-etched metallic bracers.

'''Roachling Scout'''

'''Roggenwolf:''' An unusually intelligent wolf with a psychic-attacking howl and a preference for the flesh of humanoids.

'''Scitalis:''' A giant snake with magically iridescent, scintillating skin that can hypnotize onlookers.

'''Scrag:''' An aquatic-dwelling relative of the [[troll]].

'''Sentinel In Darkness:''' A powerful guardian golem used to protect secret vaults and reliquaries, appearing as a stone statue of a blindfolded, four-armed humanoid wearing a hooded cloak stitched from maps. Creating them requires imbuing an inert stone golem with the spirit of a mortal that died having taken at least one terrible secret to the grave.

'''[[Serpentfolk]] of [[Yig]]:''' A [[H.P. Lovecraft]]-inspired race of serpentfolk.

'''Servant of Yig:''' An aberrant guardian created by Yig and his cultists, resembling a giant snake with human arms.

'''Shadow Blight:''' A tree corrupted into a dark-loving, blood-drinking killer after spending a prolonged period as the host for a fledgling Crimson Mist.

'''Shadow River Lord:''' An undead fey that inhabits deadly rivers that wear away the barrier between the realms of mortals and dark fey.

'''[[Shantak]]:''' The star-traveling horse-faced bird-thing of [[Lovecraft]]ian lore.

'''Shard Swarm:''' The broken remnants of constructs animated once more as a lesser construct of whipping winds and chunks of metal or stone.

'''Shoreline Scrapper:''' A giant lobster able to emit magnetic pulses, which it uses to augment its defenses by layering its shell with magnetized metal.

'''The Shoth:''' A race of sapient slimes from an unknown dimension that seek to coax all humanoid life to be transformed into more Shoth. Though they seek to entice others with friendship and compassion, they are not above a "tough love" approach to compel volunteering to become one of them.

'''Sigilian:''' Strange constructs that spring into being spontaneously when spells are improperly transcribed, creating a being of living words and magic that feeds on other scribed spells to grow in strength.

'''Simians:'''
* ''Kapi:'' Humanoid monkeys with fundamentally good hearts, but curious. Often become adventurers.
* ''The Monkey King:'' The celestial lord of all apes and monkeys, based on Sun Wukong.
* ''[[Vanara]]:'' A deeply religious race of humanoid monkeys with a deafening howl.

'''Simurg:''' A Gargantuan celestial in the form of a brightly colored, wolf-headed bird with access to powerful curative magic.

'''[[Skeleton]]s:'''
* ''Clacking:'' A skeleton made from assembled bones taken from different humanoids, essentially a lesser bone golem.
* ''Monarch:'' An intelligent and independent skeleton with an innate ability to control lesser skeletons.
* ''Shadow:'' A skeleton infused with just enough raw [[Shadow Magic]] that they can unleash darts of necrotic unlight as projectile attacks.

'''Skull Lantern:''' A strange undead that sometimes forms randomly when a skeletal humanoid undead is destroyed, causing the skull to begin levitating and babbling to itself whilst eldritch light burns in its eye sockets. Mindless, they attack only if attacked first.

'''Sleipnir:''' A race of eight-legged horses with divine lineage that loathe the undead and seek to destroy them.

'''Sloth, Giant Carnivorous'''

'''Snow Cat:''' A panther-sized, lynx like great cat adapted to hunting in arctic environments.

'''Spawn of Chernabog:''' A monstrous fiend associated with the evil god Chernabog, resembling an inky black bear with a porcine snout, stag's antlers and glowing red eyes standing upright.

'''Spider, Crypt:''' A giant spider with unusually high intelligence that kills humanoids and animates the corpses as zombies - slaves for the adult, and hosts for their developing young.

'''Spirit Lamp:''' A skeletal undead creature created from the victim of a cursed soul-trapping lantern, which it is compelled to carry wherever it goes.

'''Storm Spirit:''' Elementals of lightning, thunder and wind that embody nature's wrathful side and which are summoned to smite polluters and corrupters of the land.

'''Sunset Raptor:''' A feathered predatory dinosaur whose elaborate tail plumage creates a hypnotic effect.

'''Terror Bird:''' A giant, flightless, carnivorous avian.

'''Thread-Bond Constrictor Snake:''' The spirit of a giant constrictor magically bound into a rug to create a deadly guardian or assassin. So long as the rug is not destroyed, the "image" of the snake woven into its textile surface will animate as a living snake over and over again.

'''Three-Headed Cobra:''' ...It's a giant cobra with three heads. What more do you want?

'''[[Tosculi]], Jeweled Drone:''' A tosculi entrusted with acting to assist a queen in managing her swarm, distinguished by its magically imbued, scintillating carapace.

'''[[Troll]], Desert:''' A desert-dwelling troll breed with stony flesh, impervious to fire, but readily killed with water.

'''[[Trollkin]]:'''
* ''Shaman''
* ''Grunt''

'''Tulpa:''' A strange pseudo-undead, a spirit born from a coalescence of ill-will and obsessive thoughts.

'''Tveirherjar:''' Undead warriors created from the souls of the malign, dark counterparts to the einherjar born of Nidhogg.

'''Two-Headed Giant Eagle'''

'''Undead Phoenix:''' A terrible corruption of the standard [[phoenix]] into a harbinger of death, disease, plague and famine.

'''[[Undine]]:''' Aquatic female fey who seek to alleviate their lack of a soul by forming a spiritual bond with a human consort, enforcing loyalty with a cursed kiss that grants supernatural affinity for the water, but will also drown the unfaithful.

'''Unhatched:''' The skeletal undead remains of a wyrmling [[dragon]] killed and reanimated before it ever hatched by boiling its egg in a necromantic soup.

'''Ursa Polaris:''' A giant magical polar bear that possesses potent icy magic, similar to a [[Winter Wolf]].

'''[[Vampire]]s:'''
* ''Patrician''
* ''Priestess''

'''Vampiric Knight:''' A once-holy knight slain by a vampire and then reanimated as a unique servitor with only a small selection of vampiric strengths and weaknesses.

'''Venom Maw Hydra:''' A Hydra with the ability to spit poison.

'''Vines of Nemthyr:''' A malevolent plant that spontaneously grows on the sites of particularly bloody battles and yearns to spill more blood.

'''Warlock's Trumpetbloom:''' A strange and highly aggressive flower-like carnivorous plant with a venomous whipping stinger concealed in its flower-maw. Basically a triffid.

'''Water Horse:''' An amphibious fey that resembles a horse-headed humanoid, but can freely take the form of either a fetching humanoid or a beautiful riding horse, which it uses to lure humanoids to the water's edge so it can drown and eat them.

'''Weasels:'''
* ''Albino Death:'' A giant weasel with an exceptionally ravenous appetite that hunts all the time.
* ''Wind:'' A man-sized fey weasel armed with scythe-like claws that can fly and assume the form of a whirlwind. Based on the Japanese kama-itachi.

'''Weirding Scroll:''' A guardian construct for libraries consisting of an animated scroll of treated humanoid skin, capable of enslaving the minds of humanoids and turning them into its puppets.

'''Wendigo:''' A voracious antlered wolfman with icy attacks and an aura of starvation.

'''Whisperer in Darkness:''' An avatar of [[Nyarlathotep]].

'''White Stag:''' A celestial that appears in the titular form, created from the soul of a pious elf and sent back to the mortal realms to provide guidance to heroes.

'''Wickerman:''' A monstrous construct crafted by evil [[druid]]s; a giant wicker sculpture of a humanoid stuffed with human sacrifices and then set alight, trapping their souls in the flames and animating the sculpture to obey its creators.

'''Wind Eater:''' A spectral undead created by a long-ago apocalypse.

'''Wolpertinger:''' A strange magical beast consisting of a rabbit with fangs, wings and antlers.

'''Woodwose:''' A strange, feral offshoot of humanity with abstract ties to the fey, characterized by its animal-like dense coating of fur and its innate ability to commune with plants and animals.

'''[[Worg]], Fang of the Great Wolf:''' A once-ordinary worg transformed into a more powerful form in honor of Fenris.

'''Wyvern Knight:''' An elite spear-wielding trooper that rides a tamed [[wyvern]] into battle.

'''[[Wyvern]], War:''' A subspecies of wyvern bred to serve as steeds. Typically ridden by Wyvern Knights.

'''Xenabsorber:''' A crystalline aberration that can mimic traits from creatures it has seen.

'''Xiphus:''' A former Quickstep augmented with a [[magitek]] [[clockpunk]] heart implant that grants it some innate [[chronomancer]] abilities.

'''Yaga Goo:''' A sapient ooze created when Baba Yaga (or a witch she has passed the secret onto) boils a humanoid down into a surprisingly tasty-smelling stew, creating an oozing, shapeshifting spy.

'''Yakirian:''' A race of [[minotaur|humanoid yaks]] who follow a [[monk]] lifestyle based on the example of Brother Ox... save for their continued performance of a traditional rite of blood magic that revolves around consuming the hearts of humanoids and giants to bolster themselves.

'''Yann-An-Oed:''' A bizarre aberration that resembles a giant frog with six eyes and mases of long, writhing tentacles in lieu of arms.

'''Ziphus:''' A gargantuan sea-faring aberration that looks like a fish with humanoid arms and an owl's head.

'''[[Zombie]]s:'''
* ''Blood:'' Zombies bolstered with blood magic, giving them blood-draining touches and covering them in a constant oozing coat of gore.
* ''Lord:'' A sapient zombie, the zombie equivalent of a [[lich]] or [[Death Knight]].
* ''Mold:'' A zombie infected with the spores of a deadly fungus.

'''[[Zoog]]:''' The tentacle-faced [[ratfolk]] of the [[Dreamlands]].