Ikoko is the Vulture Goddess, she is there when everyone dies. There are no secrets from her. She keeps her own council, and jealously guards her domain- what is dead should remain dead. Instinct: to keep things hidden

• deal in secrets and death
• take the form of smoke

Snake Cultists want to bring back their dead king and start a new Century of Blood- with them in charge Instinct: to subjugate for its god

• attack with subtlety
• entangle with whips
• escape to warn the others

Marshmen jealously guard their territory. They can be negotiated with but they are quick to take offense, especially if their inscrutable rules are broken. Instinct: To capture and eat outsiders

• Strike furtively from the trees
• strikes with poison darts, nets, barbed spears
• attacks en masse, from unseen angles

Instinct: To devour

• Stuff you into its maw
• Appear spooky, but mundane

The Stone Cobra defends the eternal resting place of the Viper King, anyone disturbing his sarcophagus does so at their peril. The Stone Cobra is known to latch on to an intruder's arm and drag them down. It also carries one dose of paralyzing poison in its syringe like fangs. Instinct: To protect a tomb

• Constricts and crushes
• Immobilizes Limbs
• Delivers paralytic poison

The Shadow-Touched Wolf is a harbringer of the the last of the Varl. He stalks the land, snatching children, slaughtering livestock, sowing fear, and then vanishing without a trace days later. It strikes from the shadows, suddenly, and then vanishes. Only to strike again,.. and again. Instinct: to instill fear

• let loose a bone-chilling howl
• strikes from the shadows
• flits from shadow to shadow