A glowing green, vaguely humanoid creature, with a tail instead of legs, floating off the ground Instinct: to thwart your plans

• Grant your wish, cruelly
• make something appear
• bring trouble to life
• reveal a deep strategy

about the size of a bobcat, but its color and markings are strange Instinct: to stalk, to play, to kill, to eat

• pounce without warning

Head of an aurochs, body of a man Instinct: to protect its lair

• Stalk its prey

Humans with various animal parts to replace their own, they serve the chimera god. Instinct: to serve the chimera god

• Sacrifice its body to serve the god
• Summon the faithful

Rooster head, gorilla body, and the desire to prove he is the strongest follower of the chimera god. Instinct: to prove his dominance

• Smash!

Rhys is the leader of the followers of the chimera god. He has the head of a lion and a scorpion tail. Instinct: to dominate

• Command the chimera god followers

It's simple enough really. First you build a body from petrified wood, about half again as tall as a man. Then you summon the spirit and persuade or compel it to aid you. Stick the spirit in the body, and send it out to track down the valuable lost things you're too busy to go get yourself. Heroes will find it tough to kill and be frustrated when it cuts open a pack and takes a spellbook or other precious item and strides away. Instinct: Collect valuable things

• Snatch away a treasure
• Stride quickly
• Abandon the body
• Hide the treasure