An evil, four-armed windsock. That's the best way to describe these abominations. Cone-shaped, with a giant round mouth on the flat end. How they see anything is anyone's guess. Powerfully magical and extremely alien, phaerimm ("Fehrihmm" in the tongue of the Tarrakhuna) are unfortunately understandable only in the sense that they delight in inflicting pain and suffering on others. But we're in luck; their love of inflicting pain applies to others of their kind as much as to mortal-kin, which makes "society" very difficult for them. Few ever leave their prison deep within the under-earth, and those only with the help of others, usually binding them to service (as you can never trust their words). Instinct: To bend reality

• Twist the powers of the earth to its will
• Its magic never does only what you see
• Evocations, illusions, and compulsions
• Pain that lingers brings it joy
• The things of the underearth heed its call

The Body of the Song is the physical anchor of the Song of Thorns. It is not, properly speaking, a "body" at all, instead being the densest and oldest cluster of thorn-vines present in Zerzura--it may even be the original plant host for the Song. However, just because it is not a body proper does not mean it is unimportant; though powerful and well-defended, it is still a potential weakness, as it is in some sense the only "totem" of the Song. Few could approach the Body without being infected and subverted, becoming food and tools for the Song, but if anyone could do so, the Song will strive to destroy them with extreme prejudice. The Body lairs in what appears to be the very heart of the City proper, with enormous vines ten feet across rising from or buried into the ground, between the shattered remnants of arches and scattered cobblestones. Servants of the Song rarely go here, but anyone whose mind has been assaulted by the Song has seen this place in the mind-battles it fights. Instinct: Absorb powerful minds, crush opposition.

• Confuse and infect prey with illusions and deceptions
• Invoke the world-shaping magic of the Shi
• Call upon the denizens of Zerzura to aid it
• Separate the party into mindscapes/shards of spacetime