A humanoid that once slew a dragon and bathed in it's blood for seven days and seven nights. The dragons blood tempered it's body to the extreme, through a constant flow of arcane energies and the pain they caused. Instinct: To Hunt

• Being immune to non-magical damage

Ælfa are highly magical beings who possess extraordinary beauty. The Ælfa of the Prose Edda (Norse text) are akin to angels and demons of Christian lore. In texts that predate that one, they are referred to as cunning sexual beings. The Norse reverted them as gods in some areas, but mostly praised their masculine beauty as if they were sons of Baldr. In Christian texts they are referred to as incubi and succubi. Instinct: To meddle in human affairs

• Display its unearthly beauty
• Seduce them
• Corrupt their mind with secrets

Ælfa are highly magical beings who possess extraordinary beauty. The Ælfa of the Prose Edda (Norse text) are akin to angels and demons of Christian lore. In texts that predate that one, they are referred to as cunning sexual beings. The Norse reverted them as gods in some areas, but mostly praised their masculine beauty as if they were sons of Baldr. In Christian texts they are referred to as incubi and succubi. Instinct: to Meddle in Human Affairs

• Display its Beauty
• Seduce them
• Share its angelic secrets

Black Annis is a hideous hag with bluish skin and glowing eyes, bathed in a constant mass of swirling, cold air. She enjoys devouring human flesh, especially that of children, which she flays living. She adorns her macabre abode with the skins of her victims. Instinct: to devour children

• Snatch a child from its home
• Appear as an attractive maiden
• Inflict wracking pain with a gesture
• Wrap her frog-like tongue around someone
• Summon help from her coven

Saral One-Eye is a wizard with no interest in pomp or ceremony. His clothes are tough and practical, heavy drab linens with belts here and there sporting pouches and pockets. His hair is black and wild, his form is hunched and withdrawn - the right side of his face is a destroyed mess, no doubt caused by violent magics. Red, angry magic courses up and down his body once a fight begins... No doubt some spell of protection. Instinct: To collect Vis

• Cripple with Magic
• Entangle someone with Flora
• Call for Protection
• Inhale Vis for Power

One of the Wizard Saral One-Eye's minions. Clad in silk and leathers, it looks like he's been camping in the jungle for a few days. Instinct: To capture Adventurers

• Entangle with Net
• Push someone into a trap
• Call for Backup

The Altar Mimic is a unique creature, a squatting, seemingly carved idol with a wide open mouth and its arms outstretched overhead as if attempting to grasp the sun in the sky. Its belly is dotted with holes through which the blood sacrificed into its maw may drip out... Except that the blood that pours from its stomach comes out as a thick semi-crystalline sludge that quickly solidifies into a sugar-like crystal lump. The blood crystals (or Vis) are incredibly charged with magical energy and as such is incredibly valuable. When ingested (as a powder or in small lumps) the user feels an immense vitality... but the raw power of magic allways leaves scars... Instinct: To be Worshipped

• Swallow Whole
• Absorb Magic
• Disguise Self

The shambling corpse of an adventurer that has fallen prey to the machinations of the Mangrove Dryad. A small mangrove sapling protrudes from its back with the slender roots of the plant sticking out of the flesh on the front of the zombie's body... Instinct: To create corpses

• Drown a Victim

The Mangrove Dryad is a curious creature. The salt water swamp that nourishes its home tree has bred a tough, pragmatic defender that isn't above using force to get what it wants from an adventuring party. Whilst it prefers nonviolence it is entirely capable of it and the mobile corpses it animates to protect its trees sproutlings can be viscious if an adventurer is caught unawares... Instinct: To protect its host tree

• Throw and explosive seed pod
• Entrance an Adversary
• Animate the Dead

A rat-sized leech the colour of rotten milk with a ring of teeth the size of a cat's. Instinct: To feed on warm blood

• Inject Anaesthetic
• Drain Blood
• Hide in Armour