These figures at a glance are heavily armoured - their forms concealed by this. Even without the armour they look humanoid... vaguely orcish perhaps? But no they only have a slight relation to such creatures, some of them were made from them - others from any physically optimum specimen. You see the kaorti make monsters, but sometimes they need something both physically capable and more subtle and able to operate within the confines of their cysts. Sometimes rather than turning all their captives into other kaorti they turn the more physically powerful (especially those of more monstrous stock) into guardthralls - their wills and minds bound irrevocably to the kaorti's. Such a transformation is not simple but it is subtle, until their true nature is revealed - either willingly or through sufficient damage - and fact that this is more akin to a mass of tightly knit tentacles masquerading in humanoid form becomes apparent. Most lose their will to fight when confronted with such horrors. Instinct: To Guard

• Seize and bind prisoners
• Undergo a terrifying transformation
• Ring a bell to summon more guards