Perhaps it was an experiment gone wrong. Or something more sinister. Either way, the scareskin now walks the farm-fields of the world, trying to achieve its job and watch over the humans it is sworn to protect. Instinct: Watch over nearby peoples.

• Appear to be scarecrow.
• Shoo away crows.
• Startle the children.
• Walk the fields.

Each individual shadow is actually a swarm of tiny, dust-sized demons. No one is quite sure where they come from, or how to kill them, but it is known that children of every species on every plane of existence know to fear the darkness . . . Instinct: To spread

• Devour flesh
• Impersonate voices
• Absorb knowledge from those it kills