Detrich O'Danos was convicted for dozens of murders, and was sentenced to serve the rest of his days in the various copper mines in the Cinder Expanse. One day, his pick broke through the stone and into the lower reaches of a Spell Weaver ruin, and one remarkably free of Relic Drones. He lucked upon a still-functional artifact of the Spell Weavers, and used the weapon to escape. He soon formed the Dead Eye Bandits from other escaped prisoners, and has been plaguing the Cinder Expanse ever since. Instinct: Take what belongs to me. (Everything.)

• Reveal a deranged yet brilliant plan.
• Fight dirty.
• Call in the gang.

Run of your mill bandits. Instinct: They have a need to steal. They yearn to cause anarchy

• Loot, Raid, Pillage, run

Bandits rove in gangs and are sometimes led by thugs, veterans, or spellcasters. Not all bandits are evil. Oppression, drought, disease, or famine can often drive otherwise honest folk to a life of banditry. Instinct: To steal

• Bombard - Fire at their prey in one large bombardment in an attempt to finish a fight quickly at the beginning of an encounter
• Lay trap - Will often lay traps in densely packed woods using tripwire, or stage an accident that requires an adventurers help before ambushing them whilst their back is turned.
• Calls for aid from its compatriots

“Few have seen a basilisk and lived to tell the tale. Get it? Seen a basilisk? Little bit of basilisk humor there. Sorry, I know you’re looking for something helpful, sirs. Serious stuff, I understand. The basilisk, even without its ability to turn your flesh to stone with a gaze, is a dangerous creature. A bit like a frog, bulbous eyes and six muscled legs built for leaping. A bit like an alligator, with snapping jaws and sawing teeth. Covered in stony scales and very hard to kill. Best avoided, if possible.” Instinct: To create new statuary

• Turn flesh to stone with a gaze
• Retreat into a maze of stone

You may know a thing or two about basilisks, but this breed is different. It's worse. They creep about the swamp, looking for greater and greater things to petrify, to add to their statuary. It starts of small with wolves or a travelling peasant, but then they start adding more and bigger prey. Bears, entire caravans of people, Great Spiders, and the adventurers arrogant enough to hunt it down. What may be even worse, while other breeds may kill or petrify with but a look these are harmless unless they want to be. This doesn't sound too bad until you hear stories of the Serpent Queen, who claims to have trained them to be her loyal pets. Then, you have some trouble at hand. Instinct: To add trophies to it's statuary

• Breathe on flesh to turn it to stone
• Hypnotize a prey into apathy and submission

The Horned Wolves of Fervent wood are known for their bizarre corruption in the form of bones protruding from their bodies. Other than this dangerous feature, and it's feral attitude, there are few differences between them and a normal wolf Instinct: To Hunt

• Stalk Prey
• Pack Tactics

Rippers are vicious creatures, often found in packs of 3-6. In the wild, like most animals, they are not dangerous to their surroundings, and the only reason they would attack is when they feel threatened or if they sense fear. Local hunters often use these beasts if wolves or other common predators aren't found in some areas. The reason these creatures are more dangerous than the common hound, are their very sharp fangs that rip through armor like a knife through butter, as well as their acidic spit. As their means of protection, they have thick hide that, if properly extracted, could be used as scale armor. In addition to that, they use their 4 arms to deflect and parry blows made by their attacker. Instinct: To hunt

• Shred, Dig, Screech

"The Old Ones, they knew much. Not the alchemy of man nor the sorcery of warlocks and the like. No, this is the magic of gears and pulleys, the sorcery of science. Watch your every step in the tower: be wary or you may call to life the ancient defense systems. You'll know the Defenders have awoken long before you face them, that's for sure; they're louder than a stomping giant and their hulls scrape the stone walls. You'll hear them coming, I'm sure you can avoid them, go on in the tower. Me? I... I'll stay out here. Got to have a lookout post, right?"

Instinct: Destroy all Intruders! *click* Defend the domain!

• Display immense and uncaring strength
• Soldier on, ignoring all damage until the last
• Reveal a hidden function from the depths of its gearworks

A stirge is a tiny magical beast that fed on the blood of other creatures. A group of stirges is known as a "thirst". Instinct: to feed on blood

• Life Drain
• It is prone to carry diseases that weaken victims

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