Instinct: To hunt

• Feed on their blood
• Strike from darkness

This abomination is the result of cruel necromancy. They are creatures made through pain and endless torment. All that remains is a twisted soul and its skin. These fleshy masses attempt to surprise and suffocate living creatures. There hate of those who do not look like them drive them to horrific acts. Instinct: Hatred of those with life.

• Suffocate the life from its victim

The Sphinx is an ancient guardian employed by ancient and powerful creatures to protect sacred and important sites. Its main purpose is to see that only authorized creatures can access what it protects. For this she asks questions in the form of riddles. Usually she gives three chances to answer. Those who have the authorization know the answers, those who don't, die devoured. Unfortunately, they are very good at making riddles, especially since they can determine someone's perfect test simply by examining their thoughts. Instinct: Make Riddles

• Make dangerous riddles
• Telepathic Mind reading
• Causing fear or disturbance.
• Devour those who miss their riddles.

The Wagelfax sleeps in caverns beneath the ground. While travelers set up camp above the Wagelfax, it reaches out and pulls them down through the ground and into its cavern where it devours them. The Wagelfax has 7 eyes and the center eye is the biggest. It has 12 long tentacles that have sharp spikes on them. Instinct: To feed on travellers

• Pull unsuspecting sleeping campers to their grave
• Use tentacles to trip-up and grab threats

The Formian Taskmaster is the size of a Soldier, but its purpose isn’t combat. The Taskmaster exists to organize and telepathically command the Formian Soldiers and Drones around it. Additionally, a Formian Taskmaster is never without a Dominated creature that it can send into battle to protect it. If an enemy ever did reach the Taskmaster though, it would be wise to avoid the creature’s venemous sting, which rapidly saps the victim’s strength, rendering the Formian’s opponent vulnerable and compliant. Instinct: Enact the Queen’s will

• Mentally dominate a creature using psychic power
• Sting with a strength-sapping poison
• Telepathically call other Formians to its aid

The Formian Soldier is significantly more dangerous than a Drone. Formians born into the Soldier caste do no manual labor, for they are bred for battle. Though they always work as a unit, a singularly effective Soldier may be afforded the highest of honors, to breed with the Queen in order to propagate their superior genetics into the next generation of the Hive. As all Formians, a Formian Soldier is in constant telepathic communication with all other Formians within 1 mile. Instinct: DEFEND THE HIVE. OBEY THE QUEEN.

• Attack in formation
• Telepathically call other Formians

A creature thought only to exist in legend, the Gydra is a dragon-sized goose with twenty-three heads, each head being that of a different species of goose. Its feathers are brilliantly refractive, so much so that it has been said it can blind those who gaze upon it, and it is unusually quick considering its size. In the stories from which it hails it is said the Gydra seeks the pure of heart, and that once it finds someone it deems worthy it will bestow upon them a great boon. Instinct: to serve the pure of heart

• Blind them with brilliant lights

Have you ever seen a mushroom that walked on two feet and had a grotesque head of splitting fungi that both looked and smelled like a rotten and exploded head? No? Then count yourself lucky. Rothorns are some of the vilest plant-like critters I've ever had the displeasure of cataloging. They shamble around in groups of three or four, lunging out at anything that moves near them. If it manages to get a hold of something, it starts undulating in a horrendous manner, letting out some sort of scream that sounds like something being boiled alive, and then it explodes. Not only that, but each Rothorn seems to be a walking colony of Rot Grubs, those disgusting little buggers that burrow into their food and hosts only to burst out later after laying their eggs in it. If it manages to kill something, the spores it releases end up converting the corpse into another Rothorn. Instinct: to spread

• Latch onto them
• Violently explode into spores and grubs

The lowest rung of a Formian Hive, Drones represent about 75% of a hive’s population. Far from mindless, they are unquestioningly obedient to all Formians of higher status than them. Drones are born with neither the instinct nor the organs with which to reproduce, living only to carry out the purpose for which they were bred. As all Formians, Drones are in constant telepathic communication with all other Formians within one mile, allowing a Swarm of Drones to seemingly effortlessly move over and around one another without ever getting on one another’s way, carrying out attacks with deadly precision. Instinct: OBEY THE QUEEN. DEFEND THE HIVE.

• Move in perfect synchronicity with other Formians
• Telepathically summon Formians to its aid

Medusae are hateful humanoid creatures which dwell in dark caves or caverns, venturing forth on occasion to seek prey. They try to beguile humans to look into their eyes. The gaze of a medusa's eyes will turn creatures to stone. If an opponent averts her/his eyes, the medusa rushes up so that its asp-like head growth can bite at the victim. The asps attack at close range. If the medusa's gaze is reflected back, the creature will turn itself to stone! Medusae speak both their tongue and the common one. Medusae are able to see astral and ethereal creatures, and their petrifying gaze is as effective an those planes as it is on the material. Instinct: To beguile humans

• Petrifying gaze turns humans to stone