The creature before you has bonded with chaotic energies born from its experiments, now appearing as nothing more than a collection of blood coloured paper bound together by a twisting nether of flickering purple and red light into the form of a man. Instinct: To consume magic

• Absorb Magic
• Uses Chaotic magic from an impossible amalgamation of traditional diciplines

From beneath the multitude of bloodied, dried and dessicated skins you can make out the stained veneer of white porcelain, a strained impossibly placid smile catches your eye, the eyes above it shimmer with delight at the sight of you and a jagged mechanical shiver goes through it before it lurches towards you with speed far outstripping that of a creature of muscle and sinew. Instinct: seek out new skins

• Lurk at the corner of vision
• Animate Marionette: By discarding one of its skins it can animate another marionette at half health

A human-like form draped in a black robe a mask covered in strange symbology strange tentacle like appendages hang and write where you would expect legs, these are all that remains of the once pround scholars and librarians who called Varrje their home, so consumed by their hunger for the forbidden they have lost themselves, now that hunger is all they are. Instinct: to consume forbidden lore

• protects arcane knowledge
• Consume Lore: grabs a book from the shelves and consumes the knowledge within, next attack gains +1 damage

Ancient souls bound by the dark acts committed within the library, shades actively consume shadows adding them to their form and thus growing stronger, they hide inside consumed shadows and attack anything that comes close. Instinct: to consume shadow

• Hides in shadow and attacks

A large murder of crows, killed and brought back to life by arcane measures to serve as eyes for their master. Roosting in the vast auspices of the Varrje library these creatures will attack any who venture close to the bridge hounding and driving those unfortunate souls to take shelter in the main courtyard where they will be left, either to die outside or to venture within to face the perils that lurk deeper. Instinct: Harass and harry prey towards the Library

• Dive bomb

"A large burly goblin sent out from the Sheqlands to engage in raids against the lands around Bryntyrion they roam throughout the Bryn and encroach upon the Southlands, it is not unusual for travellers to be set upon by roaming bands of these creatures" Instinct: To Burn, Pillage and Steal

• Relishes combat
• Blows warhorn

"The Bound Man is the spectral form of Baston Aufford was a knight who came from the South, filled with pride and holy conviction he set out to smite the dark creatures of the Deep Wood. Baston died there. There are many tales of his end, many overblown and inaccurate. His body was moved to the Bryn woods and a funeral barrow built with a colossal statue in his honour to serve as a lasting symbol of his desire to purge evil from the Bryn. His servants and retainers were also buried in the barrow. One day a woman arrived at the Barrow and had a team of slaves open the sepulchre, slipping inside she made her way to the burial chamber. She was Fria Aufford, who had married Baston before he journeyed north, and who had been left behind waiting for his return for years. It was not until she arrived at Bryntyrion that she heard of Baston's death, casting herself onto his Sarcophagus in grief she cursed him saying "Let his heart not stop until he has suffered for as long as I." She then drove a dagger into her heart, being a place of inherent magical potency, coupled with her blood sacrifice bound Baston's spirit to the tomb where he suffers still for Fria suffered much more pain than the ten years she was abandoned would suggest." Instinct: Seek release

• Appeals to visitors
• Will attempt to get visitors to release him from his bonds, by telling them the story of his imprisonment
• Will attack should his request be refused

"Swarms of disease ridden rats that will fight at the behest of their king and to defend their nests." Instinct: Defend Territory, Obey Their King

• Swarm
• chance of infecting with a pestilence

"Boiko was cast out of the Sheqlands and his tribe, without companionship and scorned by his species he crawled into the Knight's Barrow and waited to die. Death never came however, instead Boiko discovered the rats. They brought him food and he found he could use his magic to control them, for the first time Boiko found acceptance and so too the rats found a host, they swarm over Boiko to the point where it is difficult to tell where he ends and they begin." Instinct: Defend territory

• Controls the Swarm
• Summons necrotic fog
• Every round roll 1d10 on a success call forth 1d4 rat swarms

"All those who wander the deeps of the Northern Forests know, that when mist arrives amongst the trees, there in no shame in fleeing. Those few that have not tell tales of men flayed alive by great horrifying spirits that stalk the mist. A mage once told me that the mist entraps the souls of those it kills and by smothering them in its essence breeds more of its horrific feeders." Instinct: To replicate

• Creates a thick mist
• Anything killed by it are transformed into Mist Feeders